Allied (Robert Zemeckis, 2016)

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star as allied spies in World War 2, who fall for each other and then have a child together. It's a splice of Casablanca, where the first half plays out under high tension, and, eventually, Pitt's previous actioner Mr. & Mrs. Smith when to moves to London. Pitt and Cotillard are dependably fine, but it all feels somewhat derivative, with all the standard wartime elements thrown in, including the Blitz, the doughty French resistance and even slimy August Diehl from the nerve-racking bar scene in Inglourious Basterds as a cunning Nazi again. And despite a concerted effort to make the second part, when doubt is cast on Cotillard's character, a proper psychological thriller, it falls as flat as the chemistry between its otherwise charismatic leads.

5/10