Red Alert in the Chemistry Lab.

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2005)

Pre-release rumors of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie being romantically linked in real life become a distraction that was not needed in this brain-dead demolition derby that is full of incoherent elements. Pitt and Jolie are an unhappily married couple who are both really government assassins who have hidden their true lives from one another. Amazing to me that these two experts could not know the real truth about their marriage. Either these are the two sneakiest spies in the history of film or two of the dumbest (I side with the latter). Anyway the secrets hit the fan, chaos strikes and the chemistry between our two leads hits a fevered pitch that makes you ignore the stupid story all together. Comic relief from scene stealers Vince Vaughn (as Pitt's most trusted ally) and enigmatic wise-crack Adam Brody (of "The O.C." fame) become two more unnecessary distractions that ultimately lead nowhere. Brody gets immersed in the middle of the entire dizzying exercise as finding him becomes a top priority for the star duo. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" is like being in a high school and watching the senior quarterback and head cheerleader date. At times their routine may be cute or endearing and at other times you want to strangle them both because of their sickening relationship together. To say that Pitt and Jolie do not have a heated chemistry on the screen would be an outright lie, but honestly this is nothing but a whole lot of noise that represents a bare minimum of cinematic thought. Kind of like a science lab exploding and no one really caring. 2.5 out of 5 stars.