Violence

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2005)

A tight and nicely pitched bit of boom bang-a-bang bang all the time with Brad Pitt and the impossibly eye catching Angelina Jolie as the couple drowning in the sort of domestic hell that Tyler Durden would have incinerated. What the couple don't know is that they're both assassins but someone else does find out and dispatches them to kill each other. That's it really. They find out, they fight, they exchange a few bitchy comments and destroy the matrimonial lair. Liman though is no slouch in the action department as he proved in the Bourne Identity and the couple bust each other up with enough destructive zeal to stop you getting bored, even if you're never exactly brimming with excitement. It's not much of comedy but there are a few mouth raising asides and Vince Vaughn is good value was Pitt's anxious friend and associate. A perfectly diverting two hours when all is said and done, sentiment free and worth seeing for Jolie's curves, the house is on fire moment and Seth from the O.C looking at an aggressive looking Pitt, wearing a fight club t-shirt, tied to a chair. Actually he didn't half look like Tyler did in the scene where Ed Norton was tied to that chair. Come to think of it, the Smith's shrine to unrestrained capitalism did go up in a firey ball of fury.