Movie Review: ALLIED-Is Brad Pitt's romantic spy thriller worth watching?

 Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in ALLIED, which tells the story of a Canadian Intelligence Officer (Pitt) and a French Resistance Fighter who meet and fall in love Casablanca, Morocco in 1942, while carrying out a mission to assassinate a German Ambassador. Months later the two are reunited in London resume their love affair which leads to marriage and having a baby. But all is not happily ever after. When Pitts bosses inform that his wife might be a Nazi Spy, they give him 72 hours to find out the truth.  The problem I had with Allied is that it took me almost 40 minutes to find myself invested in the story. Up till that point, I wasn't sold on Pitt and Cotillard being lovers. There is a scene where Cottilard is giving birth to their baby, while the invasion of Paris is going on around them. Leave it to Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis to pull off a stunning visual scene like that. From that moment on, I found myself invested in Pitt's quest to find out whether his wife is a German spy or not.  Also, Zemeckis teams with award-winning film composer Alan Silvestri (they collaborated on many films, including FORREST GUMP) who creates a beautiful and haunting score. I give ALLIED a very watchable B. The first 40 minutes is uninvolving, but give it a chance and you might find yourself immersed in this thrilling spy/love story from a masterful Director-Robert Zemeckis. If you aren't familiar with the name, google him and you'll see that you have seen a good chunk of his many wonderful films.You can catch ALLIED on Amazon Prime or on the Starz Channel.