The Person You Marry is not Always the Person you think you married

Rating: 7/10 (2 November 2012)

This seems to be one of those movies that probably should appeal to both sexes, Brad Pitt for the girls and Angelina Jolie for the guys, the action for the guys and the romantic comedy for the girls, however I simply do not feel that the sexes really do work like that. I have noticed on internet dating sites (yes, I do like to explore those sites) that the girls tend to advertise that they like the action movies and the guys tend to point out that they like the rom-coms. I guess that is the idea of attempting to appeal to the opposite sex. As for me, I like good movies, whether they be an action flick or a rom-com, and as for actors, I like good actors, and that is usually defined by the type of movies that they appear in (and to be honest, it is Brad Pitt, being a good actor, that made this movie appealing).
Okay, this is one of those about a couple who are going through the sort of marriage mid-life crisis. They had been married for five or six years and all of the sparkle that initially defined the marriage has vanished leaving us with a couple of people that simply have little small talk when they are at home and simply share a bed (as well as a house). On the outside they seem to be the perfect professional couple living in the perfect neighbourhood, being the envy of those around them, however there is something that they are both keeping from each other, and that is that they are both assassins.
Obviously it is going to get to the point that they will end up discovering each other's secrets, which brings us into the main part of the movie, and that is the two former lovers (who were using each other as cover) end up going for each other, not so much in the marriage breakdown sort of way (though one could argue quite easily that at this point the marriage has broken down, but more on a professional as opposed to an emotional, level). Oh, there is a little twist in the film, which involves some guy known as the Tank (which a little scene at the beginning of the film should give away), and the film pretty much ends with the two of them gunning down a horde of special forces troops determined to kill them (yet there seems to be no real conclusion, with the exception that they have kissed and made up).
I guess the idea that comes out of the movie is how many marriages these days are pretty much between strangers, and while I suspect the makers of this movie aren't trying to create some deep and meaningful movie about marriage, we must consider that many marriages do break down because of this, the passion is gone, and maybe even the kids are gone, and we suddenly realise that the person we thought we had married actually isn't the person we actually married. Maybe the solution, as suggested in this film, is to actually discover who this person really is, and then go on an adventure together. True, they did fight, and fight viciously, but in the end they made up, the passion flared up again, and we discover that in the end, while problems had not necessarily been solved, the life had been injected back into the marriage.