Rarely hits the target.

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2012)

This romantic comedy/action pic starring Hollywood A-list sex symbols Brad 'Pretty Boy' Pitt and Angelina 'nice tits, WTF lips' Jolie has something for everyone, male or female... or so the studio must've thought when concocting their calculated 'sure-fire hit'. Shame then that they forgot to include decent laughs, neglected to bother whether the script made any sense, miscalculated the level of on-screen chemistry between the film's stars, and failed to generate any excitement until long after the audience had stopped caring.
Coming across like James Cameron's Trues Lies crossed with Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner's black comedy War of the Roses—only minus both of those films' style, wit and charismatic lead performances—Mr. and Mrs. Smith sees Pitt and Jolie as a bored married couple who, to their surprise, discover that each other is a hired assassin working for a rival agency. This conflict of interest initially pits the pair against each other, but with so much in common, the couple eventually rekindle their love and form a formidable alliance.
Clearly, with such a set-up, the audience is intended to connect emotionally with the film's cold-hearted killers and find humour in their predicament, but Mr. & Mrs. Smith fails to pull off such a trick, the script lacking the sophistication and requisite dark humour that the subject matter demands.