Mr. & Mrs. Smith


They've been married five or six years, and he's got a secret. Actually, so does she... they're both assassins for different secret agencies, and they find this out when they are given the same target to take care of. Things get complicated when they are each ordered to assassinate each other... but their common enemy forces them to work together instead.


119 minutes.
Mature Accompaniment under 13 (Violence).
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Last one to draw is a sissy....
Last one to draw is a sissy....

Credits

Cast
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Efren Ramirez, Vince Vaughn
Director
Doug Liman
ScreenplaySimon Kinberg
MusicJohn Powell
CinematographyBojan Bazelli
Sound formatsDolby Digital
Made in2005
Produced byNew Regency Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Weed Road Pictures, Regency Enterprises

Official Site




Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

The Moviesite
Ian Douglas
5
Cape Argus
Yunus Kemp
10
The Cape Times
Kenneth Turan
10
The Star
Jeremy Lawrence
10
Die Burger
Paul Boekkooi
5
Sunday Times
Barry Ronge
15
iAfrica.com
Nils van der Linden
10
eye Weekly
Jason Anderson
10
Box Office
Annlee Ellingson
15
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
13
Chicago Sunday Times
Roger Ebert
15
BBC
Stella Papamichael
15
The Independent
Anthony Quinn
10

What the People say

Internet
3062 Netizens
14

Average .. 56%

11

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: Mmm looks like my rating is out of line with the other critics... Let's see why... Other reviewers saw this as a hip examination of modern married life, seeing metaphors in the violence and so on... I also saw some hints of metaphors, but the rest of the plot pushed these into a minor role.

My main problem with this movie is that the plot is so full of holes and other nonsense that it completely lost credibility. Even the ending, a rewrite of the ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' ending, defied belief as it played out, as well as not dealing with the fact that if the US 3-letter agencies want you dead, they'll keep coming at you until you are... So apart from some witty dialogue, numerous explosions and unanswered-plot-questions, there's not much else... both my wife and I left the cinema wondering, ''so what''.... in fact, we both thought it was kinda like ''Laura Croft and husband''.

But judging from some of the rave reviews above, I guess our view will be in the minority. I was originally going to give it 2.5 stars out of five, but the more you think about the storyline, the less it makes sense... and so I dropped to 2 stars.






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