Emmeline Kellie History was never my strongest subject and I ashamedly never took much of an interest in our war history so my knowledge is very limited.My dad is a big lover of war films so I watched quite a lot of them growing up, and to me, it always looked the same: a big battlefield, a mass of soldiers (hard to tell apart in their uniforms) and lots of guns and explosions. Being the big girl I was, it just wasn't my thing!Allies is a WWII drama but there's so much more to this film than war and I absolutely loved it. It made me laugh and cry in all the right places as I followed these guys on their mission. The characters are very well developed and you get to know and love them all individually which was the real driving force of the film for me.Since watching Allies, I've been encouraged to watch other war movies and I've even taken a much keener interest in the Second World War and our history that has so heavily impacted the world as we know it today.Allies is beautifully shot, the actors are all brilliant which is especially essential in such a character-driven film, and the filmmakers get the level of intensity and action just right in my opinion: enough to keep me gripped, tense and on the edge of my seat, but not so much that it feels over done!Would definitely watch again and I highly recommend.

toxfly During the heyday of British war films in Fifties, Allies would have fitted in nicely as the B movie to some better fayre. But trying to push it out alone in 2014 was always going to be a disaster. The film received no distribution as it offers nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before. The core audience for films like this is 50+ so there needs to be an angle to even get it noticed. A simple commando raid and journey back through the lines was the staple of so many films (and TV shows), far better done, that it's difficult to maintain any involvement in the shrinking cast of new faces in this.The budget meant that the one German armoured car kept coming up again and again bit like the Daleks going round and round in old Doctor Who. Nobody had a clue how to use their weapons. You do not loose off machine gun rounds from the hip. You'd miss your target and have to reload except you'd be dead by then. You also don't stand up as sitting ducks as the Germans continually do. They gave the Germans the same bullets from When Eagles Dare whilst the Allies bullets were everlasting.Nice but unbelievable.This is a ten year old boy's idea of a war film. Constant gun battles, sacrifices and noise. And the odd tit for Dad. On a streaming service only to fill the shelves.

ghajas Similar to others before me I was registering to IMDb right now to help correct the over-ratings of this title. This movie is really awful. Not one full minute is enjoyable. It has no relation to WWII, military or history. Not even to common sense. I would not say you should avoid this movie. Take as a parody! But in this category Top Secret is better...The only positive thing to mention is that the makers tried to collect historically correct equipment - and they mostly succeeded. Although utilizing the items and the reenactment personnel is just a big mess, lacking any logic.

zardoz-13 Writer & director Dominic Burns and co-scenarist Jeremy Sheldon must have watched director Brian G. Hutton's "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) when they scripted their secret mission World War II movie "Allies." Although the Burns & Sheldon screenplay, with "Riot" scribe James Crow receiving story credit, bears a great deal of resemblance to the Alistair MacLean penned "Where Eagles Dare, "Allies" isn't a comparable tour-de-force thriller. Nevertheless, this low-budget wartime actioneer delivers the goods in spades when a lone American officer commanding of group of seasoned British commandos plunge behind enemy lines on the eve of the Battle of the Bulge to create havoc. Like "Where Eagles Dare," a saboteur lurks in the wings while our guys set out to relieve a German officer of his map pouch so they can find out where the big guns are station. Happily, the British aren't too taken with an American leading them, but Brigadier General Groves (Steve Hartley of "Split Second") points out to the reluctant English that Americans concocted the plan. Unfortunately, the U.S. Rangers are otherwise preoccupied with other critical concerns, so the best resource turns out to be the British. Initially, the British encounter difficulties getting along with their leader, Captain Gabriel Jackson (Julian Ovenden of "The Forsyte Saga"), but they manage to resolve their differences. They find themselves up to their ears in Germans, and sometimes the Germans get the upper hand. Burns paints his heroes into a corner and springs several surprises, particularly with regard to the saboteur. The chief debit of "Allies" is that the objective that they seek is just maps, but the enemy does pose a genuine threat. The two guys who have little use for each other, Jackson and Sergeant Harry McBain (Chris Reilly of "Game of Thrones"), resolve their differences under gunfire. Burns stages several decent action scenes, and the cast is sturdy enough. "Allies" ranks as an above-average World War II actioneer in a budget.