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Mon, 02 Jun 2008

Movie Review: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Title:Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Rating:6/10

Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a story of a man and a woman married "about 5-6 years" that are slowly drifting away from each other (the movie opens with a scene of them in a joint marriage therapy session). The spark has gone; they barely look at each other, let alone speak to each other. Well, that is until they find out that each of them is hiding a secret: they are both undercover assassins working for competing agencies. Once they discover each others true identities, they must kill the other person in 48 hours or their agencies will kill them both.

So, yes... this is not a movie that seriously explores what it takes to re-ignite the spark in a lifeless marriage. It's an action flick when all is said and done: car chases, shooting, blowing things up. But not only is there a capable bad-arse hero (Mr. Smith played by Brad Pitt) doing all the shooting, killing, blowing things up, etc... but there is a heroine (Mrs. Smith played by Angelina Jolie) that is one-upping the hero at every turn. It is easy to see that both Pitt and Jolie had a lot of fun with the roles; the one-liners, the sarcastic retorts, and the double-entendres were all played very well and generated a lot of chemistry on the screen. This part of the movie was a real hoot and thoroughly enjoyable.

I have but one complaint: the ending was just, well, utterly pathetic! Imagine this. Pitt and Jolie are holed up Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid style... last bit of ammo, both are injured, outnumbered 20 to 1, and completely surrounded. But instead of going up against South American lawmen armed with pistoles a la Newman and Redford, Pitt and Jolie are going up against (supposedly) well-trained hit-men with automatic machine guns and RPGs. Yet somehow (unlike Newman and Redford), Pitt and Jolie manage to mow down all the baddies whilst dodging RPGs and automatic machine gun fire... in the middle of a warehouse with little to no cover! Did I say the ending was extremely pathetic?! Yeah, I thought I did. Give me a break.

Summary: Very good (until the end)... recommended. Watch carefully for the Fight Club homage. And don't miss the subtle minivan humor.

:: Posted by rus on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:57 pm
:: Filed under /reviews/movies



        

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