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Mr. & Mrs. Smith works on almost every level and against all odds.
Have we lost our minds and souls so completely to celebrity worship that drivel like Mr. and Mrs. Smith can thrive and prosper?
The studio must have reasoned that Jolie and Brad Pitt are movie stars, so anything they do would be seen as fun and attractive -- and what could be more fun and attractive than their trying to kill each other and just about everybody else in the movie?
It's a love story not for the faint of heart. In other words, it's a lot like marriage.
A movie so in love with itself it hardly needs us at all.
The pretty onscreen union of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is the only thing "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" offers an audience beyond a relentlessly repetitive series of gunfights and car chases wherein so many bullets are fired that you feel like you're witnessing a
I wanted to enjoy it, I really, really did. But I couldn't.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a playful film, sort of a War of the Roses by way of True Lies, and it never tries to preach or give its characters some crisis of conscience.
A sexy action romp with the impossibly beautiful Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Mr and Mrs Smith is a sizzler.
A jovial, half-smart domestic comedy in which domesticity itself is a joke.
Married assassins are contracted to kill each other. Not for young ones.
When a film sets out to be funny, slick, action-packed, and stylish, and it is, you have to give it some credit.
If you're willing to believe your spouse when he tells you that the reason he's been staying out late at night is that he's a hitman, then Mr. & Mrs. Smith may be just the tongue-in-cheek thriller for you.
If you're willing to believe your spouse when he tells you that the reason he's been staying out late at night is that he's a hitman, then Mr. & Mrs. Smith may be just the tongue-in-cheek thriller for you.
Simon Kinberg's script feels phoned in, while Doug Liman's direction, adept with the massive explosions which dot the film, utterly fails at generating any romantic magic.
A fun little action romp that will play well with the audience it is aiming for -- so long as they don't go in with any major expectations.
Pitt and Jolie have chemistry to burn, and the film hits more often than it misses.
Of course, the movie wants desperately to be a metaphor about marriage and relationships, and it overplays that hand, but the zingy dialog is full of quips that couples will identify with, and the stars are accomplished enough performers.
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