Mr and Mrs Smith is just plain, boring, unrealistic and stupid

Rating: 2/10 (26 June 2005)

I went to this movie because the wife and kids wanted to see it and all four of us wished he had seen something else instead. The first thing I noted was that rather than PG-13, this piece of trash should be rated R for violence (Unneccesary I might add), sexual situations and sexual innuendo. I don't have a problem with R or even X rated movies, I go see R all the time but I don't take 10 year olds and the theater was full of 8-12 year olds who were all obviously bored and bewildered. Want to see a movie along these lines worth watching? Rent "War of the Roses" because this is nothing more than a take on that movie and a poor take at that. The premise is ridiculous as two people who have been married 6 years do not know that each is a hit person (professional killer) for the others enemy. The characters are never developed, its just "This is what you get, wam bam". ALL of the characters in this movie are one dimensional. No depth whatsoever. Ninety percent of this movie looks like its filmed with a blue filter. The camera movement is extremely shaky and too close up most of the time. The acting can only be described with one word "ATROCIOUS". Brad Pitt must have gone to the Kevin Costner school of acting because once again he plays..now get this...BRAD PITT! Angelina Jolie is her usual self, lips and expressions, the acting's all the same. Vince Vaughn brings a refreshing...ummm..nope sorry, his acting sucks as well. There is scene after scene of Pitt and Jolie fighting off "Someone", I say someone because we never find out what organizations they work for. Only that they have offices in New York and apparently don't have names and work against the FBI or some such nonsense. Anyway, they are fighting all these enemy Ninja looking fighters and AMAZINGLY the bullet proof vests they are wearing get hit dozens of times but the unexposed parts like arms, legs, heads, shoulders, hands, necks etc do not get a scratch. (OK, they do get a scratch but thats it). HOWEVER, using their great skill with small arms, they kill many of the "enemy" whatever they are. Some of the scenes are so unrealistic as to make you wonder if someone actually had a vision for this movie or they just made it up as they went along. For example, there is a chase scene near the end, 3 bulletproof BMW's are chasing them in a stolen minivan (A Dodge Caravan I think) and Pitt spends 15 minutes trying to take out the bad guys while Jolie drives, he isn't having a whole lot of luck and near the end of their conversations (They are divulging their secrets to one another throughout the chase) Jolie slings the minivan around and with a few shots from her handy dandy pistol causes both remaining BMW's to blow up and do flips all over the highway. The best I can do to sum this movie up would be STOOOOOOOOOOOPID! The final action scene is taken DIRECTLY from the final scene of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" but rather than being shot up, Pitt and Jolie massacre the guys who are after them killing EVERY SINGLE ONE of maybe a dozen guys in the most idiotic slow motion action sequence in the history of the movies. Other words to describe would be boring, unrealistic, unbelievable (Hell even Batman was believable), poorly shot, poorly directed, no vision, poor continuity, poor everything. I recommend saving the money and waiting until this comes out on video, then when it does, wait and see if you can find it at a dollar store or flea market for a dollar or two. Recommendation: Don't waste your time or your money. Pure garbage.