Review: In 'Allied,' with Brad Pitt, love in the fog of war

Deeply nostalgic moviemaking is rendered with digital precision in Robert Zemeckis' highly manicured World War II romance "Allied."

For Zemeckis, the director of "Back to the Future" and "Cast Away," the distance between animation and live-action is little to none, and beside the point, anyway.

Once at home, she sends him to smoke on the roof since that's where, she says, husbands go after having sex with their wives.

In "Allied," he arranges them like bookends, staging a sumptuous sex scene in a sand storm and the birth, nine months later, amid bombs.

The twist in Steven Knight's script, however, is that once they are living happily with their baby, Max's superiors inform him that his wife is not who she says she is, but is a German spy.

Here, "Allied" amounts to something more than great costumes (courtesy of Joanna Johnston) and excellent production design (Gary Freeman).

Allied," a Paramount Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "violence, some sexuality/nudity, language and brief drug use.