A hail of gun fire and flipping cars

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2005)

The new movie by Doug Liman (The Bourne Supremacy/Identity)Mr. and Mrs. Smith has less to do with the 1941 Hitchcock movie of the same name and more similarities to True Lies.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a fun action adventure/Romantic Comedy about two competing agents who after having been married for five or six years, decide to give their romantic engine a "tune up" and head off to counseling. Of course neither Mr. Smith (Brad Pitt) or Mrs. Smith (Angelina Jolie) know that the "other" person is a secret agent and blame the repetitiveness of suburban marriage on them.
Throughout the course of the hail of gun fire and flipping cars, the two fizzed-out lovers discover that they are on opposite sides and come to terms with a crisis of belief. "Do I honor my job and my duty? Or do I honor my marriage?" More guns erupt, more cars somersault and the movie takes hair pin turns to discover which is more important to the characters, love or loyalty.
I think this movie is fun. I barely noticed that this was a PG-13 rating. It had the flying bullets and freeway chases that I needed from a movie, and it had a fun romantic comedy aspect to it (peppered with HOT steamy moments) for my wife.
Sadly it did have some of that signature shaky camera footage that the director seems to love, but it was not as heavy as the Bourne movies. The movie was a great diversion from the daily grind and definitely has something for everyone, good show.