Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Rating: 5/10 (19 November 2007)

There is an original film directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock, and I assume this is a remake (except not a full screwball comedy), from director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity). Basically John Smith (Brad Pitt) and Jane (Angelina Jolie) meet each other in a paradise place, and were almost immediately attracted to each other, and not long after married! A few years later they are a bit of a boring couple, but both have secrets from each other, they are both specially trained secret agents. When they are both given the same target, this is how they find out they are working for opposite sides, and at first both know they have to kill each other. But when this fails and their love reforms, they stick together to find out why they both had the same target, and are now being chased by people who mean to kill them. They find out from the target, Benjamin Danz (Adam Brody) that he was set up to get them both to kill each other, because their organisations found out that they were married. In the end, the "happily married couple" kill all the enemies, and years on are still happy. Also starring Vince Vaughn as Eddie, The Last King of Scotland's Kerry Washington as Jasmine, Keith David as Father, Chris Weitz as Martin Coleman, Rachael Huntley as Suzy Coleman and Michelle Monaghan as Gwen. The action can be gripping, Pitt and Jolie are quite convincing when both trying to kill each other and then loving (and obviously they are a couple now, poor Jennifer Aniston though who suffered Pitt's affair), I suppose it is a clever story, but not brilliant. Worth watching!