A Remake of a TV Show, A Prequel of a Video Game; It's Nearly The Typical Hollywood Movie Of The 2000s !

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2007)

"I love it very much!"
I'm talking about the main idea, which is so inspiring, like (The War of the Roses) meets (True Lies). And not only as a new action comedy, but also as a developed version of the screwball or the misunderstanding comedies of the 1960s, with unique main motif to say about how lying on the one you love can kill the relationship, or how when you're not truthful then you're a killer for yourself and your love too. That's clever, especially when you have the capacity to express it brightly, and expensively, through big and loud American blockbuster, HOWEVER, not all the dreams can be fulfilled!
"What's wrong?!"
Truly it's "what are wrong?!" because it's a long list: there is absolutely no solid logic that can connect all of that together. Not to mention, making it as pure action which destroyed the beauty of the idea to turn it into another idiot video clip. Although (Brad Pitt) and (Angelina Jolie) are bankable movie stars with a controversial love story (out of the movie yet good for it!), but both of them in here are so inanimate. They seemed sometimes like 2 characters in one video game, with dead performance and rarely memorable moments. There is no evidence of wicked moment, or creative touch. They were unfunny in a very funny mood, events and situations. And surely the stupidest third act ever, where we have the pleasure of watching such a silly, tepid, boring, long gun shooting, without seeing the tough enemies like one of those games, but without even the heat, the thrill, or the dexterity of it. To tell you the strange truth, at the last 20 minutes, I fell asleep right in the theater, despite how sharp and high the sound effects were! And now I read about how the production company cut some of the original climax where the couple get revenge perfectly on their bosses; which means that what we were watching was a sloppy cartoon without even a fair ending!
"The bitterness of the sweetness!"
We all love the commercial movies, there isn't anyone who hates some entertaining time in their life, to feel loose, to live the dream; even if it's naive or foolish dream. But in the American cinema now, we have those too many, too costly, and too dumb remakes, with a die hard desire to be profitable by using: hasty unoriginal idea, low degree scripts, hurly-burly CGI, dead performances, the mechanical atmosphere of the video games, the hugest explosions all the time, and the usual triteness as assured scarcely good sequels & prequels & spin offs & video games, etc. (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) is a clear example of that condition, being semi-ideal for that kind of movies in the 2000s, with all of their bad ingredients, added to amputated ending which competently makes the whole movie deficient just like our feeling about it. So what was that anyway?! Well, it's another amusing merchandise from the dream factor, but wasn't that clever as its likes, or as its latent abilities.
"And as a wise man said once.."
Wait for better sequel!