Film Studies Review

Rating: 6/10 (1 May 2011)

I recently watched the movie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith staring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I have watched this movie one time before. When I watched it last time I did not watch it for the art of analyzing it, but I watched it as a movie. This time around taking a film studying class, I watched it for the art of analyzing it. When you look at the special effects of this movie, it is a rather intriguing movie. Let's start with the plot of this movie. I feel the plot of the movie was a rather good one. I think it would be hilarious to meet someone new, fall in love, get married rather quickly, and yet, know nothing about them. This is not uncommon this these days In fact this is almost the norm. Both of them being assassins is the comical part. I especially loved it when Jane Smith ( Angelina) called her husband (Brad) local trash or something along them lines, as he urinating on the sand, right before they both tired to take out a convoy carrying a passenger. The lighting, the scene, the backgrounds all made the movie actually seem though as they were in a dessert location, and gave the appeal of what they might actually run into if they were on a job. Vince Vaughn, (Eddie) was supporting cast as the friend to Jon Smith. Vince Vaughn takes whatever role he plays and turns it into a short fused classic character, just a great actor in my opinion. I especially love his crazy character in the movie The Wedding Crashers. The scene where Mr. and Mrs. Smith were fighting in the house and the look of the night, made it that much more fun. When John went back to the house to look for his guns, Mrs. Smith and her team cleaned him out. Typical of what would happen when a spouse of another is offended. They would take revenge and take all of they're stuff. The special effects of the blowing holes in the walls, debris flying through the air, the slowness to it., all made you feel though as you were going to get hit with it. With today's technology I think that this would be an excellent film for 3D rendering. Before as I started in the beginning I watched this movie, just to watch this movie, I did not really care for it at first, when I watched it for the purpose of analyzing the film and its features; it makes it a much better film. I would recommend this movie to any film studies student. I will have to add this movie to my collection very soon.