Excellent commentary on married life

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2005)

I just watched Mr and Mrs Smith with my husband and we both found it to be a fun and action filled film worth seeing, but more importantly worth seeing together. We were obviously both happy to go and see the film for the big name and obviously attractive stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. We figured we would both have something to look at and to boot there would likely be some romance and a lot of action as well to feed both our appetites. We were right on this count but we weren't expecting the message underneath the obvious premise of the story. While everyone knows this is a story about two assassins who are married to each other and don't know the other is in the same business. One begins by thinking, "Come on, how could you not know, this is unbelievable!" and a lot of the scenes are quite unbelievable in the way the two always come out on top in every situation. But as you sit there watching the movie as a person in a marriage you begin to realize that this movie is not just about two assassins but it is about marriage. It is about marriage in its extremes of feeling and extremes of fighting not just with each other but against the whole world. It is about how to work things out and how extreme it can become as you do so. With that in mind, we thought it was an excellent film that really hit the nail on the head and it left us going home hand in hand ready to beat down another day in our own marriage. Well done.