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Brad Pitt,
Brad Pitt,
Angelina Jolie,
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Doug Liman,
Doug Liman
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: 20th Century Fox
: Action, Comedies, Black Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Adventure, Capers
: 120 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: English, Spanish
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Many married couples have secrets, but one pair of lovebirds discover they've both been living dangerous secret lives in this action thriller laced with comedy. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and play Jane Smith and John Smith, a suburban couple whose marriage has started to go a bit stale after five or six years. Both wish for more excitement in their relationship, but as it happens, each of them is finding plenty of thrills elsewhere. Both Jane and John are world-class assassins who will take on perilous missions for the right price, but neither is aware of the other's secret life - Jane thinks her husband runs a successful construction company, and John believes his wife works on Wall Street. However, when John and Jane are both assigned to take out the same target, one Benjamin Danz (Adam Brody), they become aware of each other's secret lives, and suddenly both their careers and their marriage go through some dramatic and potentially deadly changes. Mr. and Mrs. Smith also stars Vince Vaughn as an assassin with John's company who still lives with his mother and Kerry Washington as one of Jane's associates. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| The Pitts
by talltale
November 18, 2005 - 8:44 PM PST
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4 out of 11 members found this review helpful
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Worthless is a word I rarely use about movies (I can find something good about most any piece of junk), but MR. & MRS. SMITH comes as close to the "W" word as any film I've seen in long while. I find this particularly disheartening from a director like Doug Liman, whose past work in both independent and mainstream ("Swingers," "Go" and "The Bourne Identity") I've loved. But the worthless, pointless, unreal characters on display here are mind-blowing. Ditto the "attitude" that passes for performance from leads Jolie and Pitt.
From the first scene, one cannot help but question how these two supposedly top-of-the-line (in intelligence and skill) assassins could not know and would not bother to check into what the other does for a living--not to mention that the people they work for would wait "five, six years" before showing any concern. But then, if Liman and writer Simon Kinberg had acknowledged any of this, there would have been no movie. Know what? There shouldn't have been.
Add to this an almost complete abscence of style: instead we get reams of meaningless "action" coupled to a tiddly-wink of content. Yeah, yeah--I do realize that the film has now grossed around $300,000 worldwide. So what. We've gleefully sunk how many billions into Iraq? Money, dear viewers, can be wasted in all kinds of rotten ways. |
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