We were mostly disappointed.

Rating: Null/10 (9 December 2005)

We like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I can't think of one movie either of them made where I was disappointed with either of their performances. I was not disappointed here, in either performance. However, the movie as a whole was a disappointment. It was directed in a style that emphasized elaborate fights, with lots of gunfire and lots of people getting killed. It also emphasized elaborate vehicle chase scenes that defied all sense of plausibility. Not that any of the plot is plausible, but for my tastes more wise trickery and less brute force would have been 'more' in the long run. A wasted opportunity.
Brad Pitt is John Smith and Angelina Jolie is Jane Smith, surely not their real names. Because they are both professional assassins. But each hides their true profession from the other. The movie starts with them in counseling because, it seems, they think their marriage is getting stale. Yet, they both rate it 8 of 10, which is better than most couples can claim. We see a brief flashback to 5 or 6 years earlier, and how they met quite by coincidence in Bogata, fell madly in lust, and have been married ever since.
So, the story is really about their relationship, and how they will rejuvenate their marriage. But nothing simple happens along the way and, since both a professional assassins, we wonder if they will end up killing themselves. A fine movie to examine the 'chemistry' between Pitt and Jolie, who now appear to be an unofficial couple in real life, but for me not a very satisfying movie overall. (Vince Vaughn plays John's associate, Eddie, and now in real life Vaughn appears to be attached to Pitt's real life 'ex', Jennifer Anniston!!)
SPOILERS. Things heat up when both John and Jane are sent secretly to a remote location near the Mexican border to intercept someone, but in reality are sent so that they can inadvertently take each other out. Turns out they are working for rival assassin groups and having them married is not good for business. That sets their pursuits in motion, several fights and chase scenes, in the end John and Jane prevail over all the others, none of the bullets hit them in the arms, legs, or head, only in their bullet-proof vests, by surviving they make their relationship stronger, and we last see them in the therapist's office, happier than ever before!