Brad and Angelina sizzles on screen!

Rating: 7/10 (21 June 2005)

Doug Liman's Mr. & Mrs. Smith, may not be as gripping as his previous work, The Bourne Identity or as stylish as Go, but his latest work, surely has one advantage over the two - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, two of Hollywood's most bankable stars, join forces in a fun, witty and pleasurable movie experience. Sure, it has moments where it kinda didn't know where its going, but Pitt and Jolie's chemistry just sizzles the screen, they look hot together! Brad plays John Smith, an assassin for a top secret agency, and so as Angelina, who plays Jane, an assassin for a rival agency. They meet in Bogota, Columbia, 5 or six years ago (as Brad's character would say in the movie), in what it seems a very unstable place brought about by political turmoil, which obviously caused by either of them. Since, every foreigner traveling alone, are being questioned, their characters meet, and pretended they were together, which I must question if you're a professional spy, wouldn't you suspect each other, what were you doing in such place and time? So, they liked each other and got married under the impression that both have such ordinary jobs, they believed that they're both safe for each other. So, 5 or six years have passed and both of them are meeting a marriage counselor trying to figure out what seems to be the problem, here Angelina says one of the funniest one liners in the movie- "There's this huge space between us, and it just keeps filling up with all the things we don't say to each other. What's that called?  Marriage!" says the counselor. Here, we witness the comedic prowess of the two as they exchange dialogues and present their arguments to the marriage counselor, I had more fun with Angelina's pun but I would say Brad's reactions and mannerisms he gave his character was better.
Then just one fine day, they each got an assignment to put a hit on a certain Benjamin Diaz, played by the OC's Adam Brody, little did they know that this was actually a set-up so both can be eliminated, for their identities were discovered by both agencies. And this is where I think the movie falters, of course we know that they still love each other and will join forces and battle their respective agencies, and with their combined expertise, who could stop them? The action scenes were really explosive, and the stunts were exciting. The car chase scene, where Angelina drives a minivan (which she says she drives it better for she's a suburban mom), and while being pursued by 3 BMW's and getting peppered with bullets, she and Brad has moment wherein they confess their lies and the truth about all this time, was just really funny. We know how this will end but for a moment in the scene where they get trapped inside a shopping mall and all the snipers are ready to take them down, I kinda hoped that they will live and survive, even you know what's gonna come, that is why over all, I still enjoyed this movie.