YMMV / Allied

• One-Scene Wonder: The SOE official who identifies himself as a rat catcher, played by Simon McBurney. He is nameless, outranks every other character in the scene, has an intimidating and humourless presence, Four Eyes, Zero Soul, a uniquely forceful way of speaking, and a Webley in his drawer. He also only appears in one scene for five minutes.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: At one point it became impossible to talk about this film without mentioning the rumors that the reason Brad Pitt, one of its stars, separated from his wife Angelina Jolie during production was because he allegedly had an affair with his co-star Marion Cotillard, who was herself already in a relationship. It went to the point that Cotillard's partner issued a public declaration stating that he backed her and lashing out against those who spread the rumors. The rumors eventually fizzled out after the movie came out to mixed reviews and reviewers mostly agreed that, while Pitt and Cotillard gave good performances, they had next to zero chemistry together on screen, with one critic writing that if they were actually lovers in real life, they should be given an Oscar for how well they "hid it" on the film.

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