’m sure there are a few couples that live in perfect harmony, but if women and men were built with comparable strengths, domestic fist fights may occur more frequently (consider that adolescent brothers fight all time and don’t even share a bank account). Husband and wife, equally matched, fighting till death is the subject of this part comedy, part summer action flick, and even part chick flick. “Mr and Mrs. Smith” provides much of what it promises but in the end comes up short.
The title characters, played by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, appear to be your typical bored married couple. As you most likely already know, Mr. Smith moonlights as an assassin. But no need to feel bad for Mrs. Smith because, yep, you guessed it, she is an assassin too. They work for competing agencies so that’s probably why neither of them knows that the other shoots people for a living.
Everyone has heard the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie rumors. They are indeed true; the two of them have great chemistry together on screen. One could only tell Pitt that he was nuts to give up Jennifer Aniston until they see Jolie, looking more voluptuous than ever, strut her stuff in “Smith”.
Let’s face it; “Smith” is a one note joke that lasts 2 hours long. The good news is that it is a darn funny joke, and director Doug Liman, whose previous credits include Swingers and The Bourne Identity, has the right comedic timing and action chops to make the joke fresh for over an hour.
Liman recruits Vince Vaughn again to play another version of our favorite wise cracking character. This time, he gets well written lines and is the kind of side kick you wish has a main role. Of course, the screen play doesn’t really know what to do with him when the anemic plot kicks in, so his character is more or less dropped.
Unfortunately, this is a movie, not a skit, so we need a plot, some twists (for this genre at least), and don’t forget the resolution. That is where the trouble lies. It isn’t so much of a problem that the hokey excuse for Mr. and Mrs. Smith to start their fighting insults our intelligence or that the movie puts the protagonists in an impossible situation and decides it isn’t important to show how they get out of it. The real problem is that by the end of the film, we’ve lost our attention and we are actually indifferent on the outcome
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the only interesting thing about the movie was brad pitt. not just because he is so good looking. but he was actually funny in the movie. angelina's character was annoying.
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