Allied | Theatres List

Allied falls somewhere between wartime romance, spy-thriller and homage to the old-school Hitchcock mysteries, and the deliberate ambiguity is to enable it exploit all the tricks in the book. As the plot developments finally land it somewhere, you take the hint as to how to align your mind to enjoy the ride. But the film doesn't. It is so lost in its revelling, so indulgent in its rendering and so confident of being the masterpiece it wants to be, that it takes a tad more lenience than is comfortable to us with the genre. However, even though the film ignores the evolution of wartime films fro....