Mr & Mrs Sh**, more like

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2005)

Truly, truly awful and offensive in every way possible. Let's diagnose why this stupendously awful movie managed to dribble from a studio with two supposedly really good actors and a need to have a box office hit at some point in the next year or so.
1. The 'thrilling' Pitt/Jolie off-screen romance has somehow been Lost In Translation and we're left with an Act One that assumes you know the characters already. Jolie's character is totally unlikeable and there's no chemistry between the actors whatsoever.
2. The film manages to steal substantially from True Lies and Grosse Pointe Blank, taking the husband/wife secret life story from the former and the face off of two professional killers from the latter. Shame it didn't take the wit and action from the first and the humor from the second.
3. The special effects sequences are too loud, noisy, confusing and ultimately uninvolving. There's a point where two cars flip after being shot at, which was the sort of the bizarre special effect that I thought we'd left in the 1970s. The end scene is really dumb, too: it's worth seeing (on DVD) just to see how badly it fails.
I'm going to slam this on the IMDb as soon as I get over the annoyance of having lost $20 to watch this. If the Cinderella Man Money-Back Guarantee had been in place, I would have been screaming to the manager but alas too much cinema is caveat emptor.
By the way, while I respect most comments from IMDb members, I urge those who liked this film to give it a second reviewing and reconsider.