eye candy with no substance

Rating: 5/10 (6 July 2005)

The leads are possibly the best looking film actors of our time, both have acting talent but it is squandered in this film. The first half is mildly amusing, the old "men are from mars, women are from Venus type stuff", the second half is non-stop machine guns. I smiled in a couple of places, but I didn't laugh once. By the last 10 minutes I didn't give a hoot what happened to this couple at all. My boyfriend and I are weekly cinema visitors and we usually take it in turns to choose which film we see. I thought this would be a compromise - comedy/action/romance. Yes all these areas are covered but only just. The plot is predictable from the start and I could hardly be bothered to sit and wait for the ending.
Watch it on DVD just to see the "on-screen chemistry" between Pitt and Jolie, and be mildly amused for a couple of hours.