In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war. In 1942, during the World War II, the Canadian spy Max Vatan goes parachuting to the French Morocco to meet the French spy Marianne Beauséjour that is posing of his wife in Casablanca. Their mission is to assassinate the German Ambassador in a reception. They live together for a couple of days and soon they fall in love with each other. When Max returns to his base in London, he brings Marianne and marries her. One year later, they have the baby daughter Anna during a bombing. One day, Max is summoned for a meeting in the feared V Section with his commander officer Frank Heslop and a secret service agent that tells that they suspect Marianne is a German Spy. Further, they will give a fake order to him to confirm whether Marianne is a spy or not. If she is, Max shall execute his beloved wife; otherwise they will be both executed. What will Max do? (Warning, contains spoilers)<br/><br/>The first part of this movie is excellent. Packed with well thought action, the plot evolves very naturally, and made me really interested on what was going to happen next. It is really good. By the second part, when they get back to London, and Max receives the news that his wife could be a Spy, I was like "wow, interesting". I didn't see that coming, and thought it was very original and could lead to a very good story. After the movie ended, though, I was pretty disappointed. It left me with a feeling of "It could have been much better". I believe that action could have been built much more, all the way up till the end of the movie. Since the plot was very interesting, action could build up till a "grand finale". But the second part was mostly very bland and redundant. During it, there was a lot of cliché moves from the director to stall the story as much as he could. Like every time Max got closer to a lead about his wife, some kind of "coincidence" or "random" action or thing happened to delay his investigation. For example, like when he went to ask the man in the wheelchair if he knew his wife in the picture. But "coincidentally" it happened that the man was blind. Or when he sent that rookie soldier to ask if the battlefield's officer knew his wife. The man was too drunk, couldn't answer the boy, and the rookie soldier died. Then he went to the local prison ask the man personally, and he started vomiting, saying nonsense things, delaying, delaying and delaying his investigation. These cliché moves from the director made watching the second part even a little irritating. It looks like he was out of ideas to make the movie's progression interesting and dynamic, as it was on the first part, so he had to resort to that to stall the story, so that the movie didn't end too fast. But it wouldn't have ended too fast, it just would have made the progression more dynamic and realistic, and then the story could had evolved in different ways. Like Max could have discovered sooner that his wife was indeed a German spy, but after knowing that she still loved him, they could had successfully flown to Switzerland, but the British government went after them, and they had to manage trying to escape them AND the German government as well, who also went after Marianne. You know? Something to keep the plot interesting, progressing and dynamic. I think the plot was very good had a lot of potential. By the end of the movie it indeed left me with a little bitter taste. It could have been better. Typical, clichéd, boring and predictable. How many "spy" movies have you seen that make duty and honor become second to feeble human emotions. When will Hollywood learn that spies are specially trained professionals, they are not like regular people. If you are going to make a love story/family movie, why revolve it around spies and WW2? <br/><br/>Moreover the events of the movie doesn't make any sense. If anyone of you has an understanding of wars, conflicts, politics and national duty, you will find this movie appalling. Character-building is the second worst thing in the movie, first is the acting (Brad Pitt is alright but rest of the cast is horrendous). If you are going to watch it in cinema, please don't waste your time and money. Allied, swathed in larger-than-life, luxurious imposture, is the real heart-racing deal.
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