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Comparisons to 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith', 'Allied', swathed in larger-than-life luxurious imposture, is the real heart-racing deal.

War is hell, but 'Allied' isn't much better, as it wastes a good idea and a better cast.

This is a case of a director out of his element with a script that fails to generate much heat.

Brad Pitt seems wholly miscast, and Cotillard turns in an awkwardly pitched performance.

The result is that 'Allied' inspires most of the old-movie reactions it?s going for except one: It never makes you swoon.

There is no chemistry, no romantic fusion, no Bradion, no Mariobrad. Their screen passion bursts forth like a cold wet teabag falling out of a mug that you have upended over the kitchen sink and don?t much feel like washing up

Big-budget bluster careens through the emotional premise of the movie, and it's not helped by the casting.