There's Garbage and then there's Mr. And Mrs. Smith

Rating: 1/10 (29 July 2005)

I don't typically enjoy big budget Hollywood films but after hearing that this film is about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie trying to kill each other, I thought it might be an entertaining offbeat popcorn flick. It just sucks. Essentially you have two alcoholic (watch closely, if you must watch at all) assassins who are married and work for these corporations killing lots of people. Neither one knows what the other one does. They're each assigned the same particular job and they "spot" each other and it's the rule that after being spotted one must kill the spotter. After trying to kill each, they fall in love again and must defeat a new enemy in order to survive. The film is just terrible. It has no charm and it's morally empty. I repeatedly found myself wishing that one of the thousands of bullets that Mr. And Mrs. Smith dodge would actually hit them and put an end to these white-bread murderers lives that I'm supposed to empathize with. Vince Vaughn's character is funny and the cinematography is nice but that doesn't even come close to saving this two hour turd.