No wonder they hate us in the Mid East!

Rating: 1/10 (26 August 2007)

What a sickening example of bad values, and what a stinker of a movie!!
Sure, it was memorable when Angelina escaped by rope down the side of a building wearing a black corset, after a murder she did for hire, but come on... who wrote this absurd screen play? It was nothing but a series of shoot-em-up special effects, explosions and car chases, laced with gratuitous violence, including that telling moment when "Mr. Smith" kicked someone who was already down.
No wonder the kids get guns and go to school and shoot people? The two protagonists have no hesitation to blast and harm other people, including their spouses, and we're made to think it's clever that the Angelina character got the Brad character in a falling elevator full of explosives, or stuck a bomb in his pocket.
It must have been a male who wrote this--someone who thinks we like to see people destroy the interiors of houses, he obviously watches too many violent video games and thinks a game of spy versus spy, with real bullets would lead a couple to a passionate romp? Violence is rarely sexy to women.
On a lesser note, whoever made this is insulting the audience by suggesting that two people married for six years would not know the other's workplace and job? And you want us to buy the idea that married people with a happiness rating of 8 out of 10 are going to kill a spouse because the agency thinks it needs to be done? Many of us would lay down our lives to save each other.
To me this presents some of the "cancers" in our society rolled up into one slick package: lawless violence for profit, a sociopaths lack of regard for the suffering or welfare of others,as well as pervasive materialism leading to violence and deceit. Mr. and Mrs. S. clearly sold their souls to the devil.
Think of the teens who admire these actors who will see this movie and think being a hired killer is a viable job. Speaking of greed... Shame on the two of them for doing this. Wonder how their kids are going to think when they grow up and watch? Guess it will be hard to blame the little ones if they conclude it's okay to do whatever you want in life with no regard for pain you are inflicting. What terrible Karma.