{"id":14504,"date":"2017-03-03T22:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T06:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=14504"},"modified":"2017-03-03T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T06:21:22","slug":"review-allied-uhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2017\/03\/review-allied-uhd\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Allied 4K\/BD + Screen Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This Robert Zemeckis helmed WWII romance-drama doesn\u2019t exactly live up to its potential. While the production and costume designs were impressive, I found the performances particularly that of Brad Pitt, to be stilted and a story that failed to connect emotionally.<\/p>\n

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Allied<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Drama, Romance, War
\nParamount | R \u2013 124 min. \u2013 $29.99 | February 28, 2017<\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 03\/03\/2017 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n

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MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u>Directed by: <\/strong>Robert Zemeckis
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Steven Knight (written by)
\nCast: <\/strong>Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Matthew Goode, Scoot McNairy, Lizzy Caplan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DISC INFO:
\n<\/u>Features: <\/strong>Featurettes
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>Yes
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>4K UHD, Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), Portuguese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
\nVideo (UHD): <\/strong>2160p\/Widescreen 2.40
\nVideo (BD): <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 2.40
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>NA
\nCodec: <\/strong>HEVC\/H.265 (UHD), MPEG-4 AVC (BD)
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A, B, C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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THE MOVIE \u2014 3.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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If anyone has read my reviews long enough, you know I have an interest in World War II movies (be it documentary form, based on a true story or fictionalized) and so any movie taking place during that era piques my interest. As was the case for Robert Zemeckis\u2019s Allied<\/em><\/strong>, a beautiful looking movie that had potential, much of it squandered with clich\u00e9s and stilted acting.<\/p>\n

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Allied<\/em><\/strong> opens in 1942, intelligence officer Max Vatan (BRAD PITT) travels to Casablanca where he\u2019s to me with French resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (MARION COTILLARD) and the pair is to pose as man and wife, eventually they do fall for one another consummating their relationship by making love in a car in the midst of a sand storm (only in Casablanca I suppose). Their mission is to assassinate the German ambassador, a task which goes off relatively well as they manage succeed and escape. Months later, the two wed and have a baby girl named Anna, settling down in Hampstead.<\/p>\n

For a year, Max and Marianne appear to be the perfect couple with Max working at a desk for the military while she remains home with their child. But when Max is called in by the Special Operations Executive accusing Marianne of being a German spy, things go awry after being ordered to leave bad intel for her to find and if relayed, it will prove she is a spy after which point he must execute her by his own hand.<\/p>\n

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Despite being told not to investigate on his own, Max ignores the order and conducts one tracking down those who knew Marianne from a man named Guy Sangster (MATTHEW GOODE) who was blinded and injured but wasn\u2019t much help though points Max to another lead where he takes even more risks to uncover the truth.<\/p>\n

Allied<\/em><\/strong> certainly had a lot going for it from a respectable cast and award-worthy costume and production designs (the former did get an Oscar nomination), yet for whatever reason the story never fully came together and instead of any sense of originality, it\u2019s just filled with romance-war clich\u00e9s. Another issue is, oddly, with Brad Pitt who came across as a robot most of the time while Marion Cotillard at least had aroma of mystery about her. The direction from Robert Zemeckis is rather paint-by-numbers which is what one should come to expect from him.<\/p>\n

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In the end, there were some entertaining and even emotional moments so it makes Allied<\/em><\/strong> worthy of a rental and if you\u2019re moderately interested in World War II era films, it is as a minimum satisfactory in that regard. Satisfactory, but also rather forgettable which is a shame.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 3.75\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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This release comes with a glossy slip cover<\/strong> and inside is a redemption code for the Digital HD<\/u><\/strong> copy.<\/p>\n

The movie comes with no less than 10 featurettes (1:07:54; HD)<\/u><\/strong>, each covering various aspects and includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with members of the cast and crew.<\/p>\n