Rosy Lies In a Crown Affair...

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2005)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a little bit of the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair" with Pierce Brosnan and Renee Russo; along with a piece of "War Of The Roses" with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas; as well as a bit of "True Lies" with Governor Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlton Heston, Art Malik and Tom Arnold.
The "Thomas Crown..." part is where the duo are filmed visiting a marriage counsellor, and it reminded me of the psych parts when Pierce Brosnan was visiting Faye Dunaway (Dunaway was the Russo role in the original with Steve McQueen).
"True Lies" fit in with how they made puns on their kills and not letting each other know what they really up to - like Brad Pitt's pun when he bumped off an Irish Terrorist whose nickname is "Lucky" and he was asked by Jolie how was work and he truthfully said, "I got Lucky" (groans) - "True Lies" also fit in that neither had a clue what the other was about... Unlike that flick though, when Jolie found out, she not upset at what he did but that he didn't trust her enough to tell her! Which means that although her character claimed she didn't love him - you know she was just lying to herself...
Of course, "War Of The Roses" fit in when they were on full assault mode with each other and a special remix of "Express Yourself" from Charles Wright emphasised their fight scene  those clashes were awesome, with spittoons as weapons plus real cuffs and kicks! Meanwhile, there was "Love Stinks" from the J. Geils Band, as well as "Tainted Love" from Soft Cell with Marc Almond on lead vocals, and The Voodoo Glow Skulls' "I Used To Love Her (But I Had To Kill Her)" among quite a few others to show the nemesis of affection.
Yet Air Supply's "Making Love (Out Of Nothing At All)" (which Brad/John Smith sang along to, and not too badly either) plus a remake of Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" as interpreted by Magnet with Gemma Hayes in addition to Captain and Tennille's perennial handling of Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Us Together" showed why the smoochy stuff is worth it in the end.
How was the rest of the picture, content- and music-wise? Go and debrief it for yourself  if I told you, I'd have to kill you!