Pretty ridiculous

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2008)

While Angelina Jolie is smokin' hot, and Brad Pitt may be the same, putting two good-looking actors onto the screen with guns and telling them to shot people without looking at them doesn't exactly translate into a good movie.
This is where things go wrong for 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith,' whose relationship is strained by secrets. This secret? Both are secret agents, whose spouses assume they hold an entirely different and not-as-cool job.
Once each discover who the other really is, it's up to husband and wife to figure out if they'd rather love the other or kill the other. The banter between the two when they initially try to kill one another is the best parts of the film, and are parts that truly are enjoyable. However, it's when the two decide they'd rather fight together against an undefined and easily-defeated villain that things get messy.
The villain is no threat, apparently, to this super-smokin married duo who seem to be playing in a romantic comedy with lots of shooting than anything else. What's more, is the audience never really knows who the villain is or why they are a threat to Mr. and Mrs. Smith; we're just supposed to all assume that they for no explained reason want to kill the couple and Pitt, with his 50 or 60 career kills, and Jolie, with her 312, will take them out without hardly a scratch. (This includes the "climactic" scene where it's about 2-on-30 but they take out the baddies without a problem).
Unexplained, undefined, and beyond ridiculous once the actual fun of the couple's banter is over with, 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' is not, and shouldn't be, Doug Liman's crowning achievement as a director. 'Bourne Identity' and even the decent 'Jumper' can easily take that title away from this romantic/action comedy. 2 stars/4