Two hours of my life I will never get back

Rating: 2/10 (26 June 2005)

In case you have never seen an action movie before or you have been living under a rock and don't know who Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt are, you might enjoy this film. I felt this movie was merely a chance to parade Pitt/Jolie around on the screen and have them shoot guns and blow stuff up. The plot/script really didn't matter. If Hollywood was to pump out a sequel to a crappy movie like Gigli 2 or You Got Served Again, and cast Brad or Angelina, people would still go see it and say it was good just because they get so caught up in the actor's/actresses's physical attributes. That is just the star power of these two performers, dialogue and plot doesn't matter with them.
Once the movie gets going it is non-stop action. The effects are cool at first but then to me seemed like a record skipping. Just a never ending series of gunshots, explosions, wrecked buildings and ruining expensive cars. Really no groundbreaking action or special effects that you can't find in other crappy movies such as Bad Boys 2.
Angelina looks gorgeous as ever, but once again, I've seen it before in other movies, and shoved in my face every day on the covers of magazines and on television. In fact if you want to see Angelina look real good I recommend one of her films where she actually shows some skin, like Gia or Taking Lives, rather than Mr and Mrs Smith. I'm sure women who watch this film would say the same about the former Mr. Jennifer Aniston.
Doug Liman directs but this film doesn't even come close to what he helped create with Swingers(one of my favorite films). I have always expected more out of Doug since that film. I am starting to give up hope.
Vince Vaughn and Adam Brody co-star and do typical Vaughn and Brody things. Nothing groundbreaking. About a dozen attractive females co-star as well, which was nice.
The cinematography is decent, characters are underdeveloped, a lot of money got spent on special effects, blah, blah, blah. This movie will probably make millions of dollars, but I thought it was weak. Final Grade: D.