With the very mixed reviews I had seen for "Mr and Mrs Smith" I wasn't sure exactly what to expect, except for some sort of mindless summer action movie that may or may not be any good. That's not much to go on, but the director is good (Doug Liman, "The Bourne Identity") and the premise was interesting.
The premise of this movie has Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in a marriage of five or six years and whatever passion there was has gone out. They are bored with each other and with their relationship. But each harbors a secret: Brad and Angelina (John and Jane Smith) are assassins working for competing firms and neither knows this secret of the other. The trailers suggest that they will be given a contract to take out the other and it is only in the middle of the mission that they realize who they are hired to kill. That isn't exactly what happens, but it is close enough for discussion's sake.
What results is a surprisingly entertaining movie. There is plenty of action, at which Doug Liman excels, and it is easy to see that the movie started out with a wide comedic tone. Pitt and Jolie are both believable (as far as it goes) in their roles and their chemistry is very real.
By no means is this a perfect movie, but Liman mixes the action, humor, and the marriage on the rocks portions of the movie with great skill. While the plot is fairly weak and excuse for the actors to play, it works just well enough to give the summer a fun action movie.
Grade: B
It was nice to see a movie that was not a remake or a re done idea.
The action was enough and chemistry (albeit there was likely some off screen chemistry that helped) was good.
I think Pitt would actually make a good Bond. I was not sure how he would do in this type of genre, but he did well. Angelia, I knew could pull it off because of her tomb raider roles.
We both gave it :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I hated it. Maybe it's because of the whole mess they're in, but neither were likable actors to me to begin with--but I hoped that the movie would take me past that. (As in Ocean's Twelve, I was able to like Pitt's character in the movie). Here, they were not likable at all and very flat.
I rarely dislike movies that much. I didn't like it at all.