I dare you to watch 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' and not have fun...

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2005)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith Jane and John Smith(Jolie and Pitt) don't seem to hit it off anymore. They met 5 or 6 years ago in Colombia, and from that point on, their relationship went uphill. Now, five or six years later, Jane and John have really become bored of their empty conversations between each other. Jane thinks John is a construction worker, and John thinks Jane works at a bank. But their worlds are going to be turned upside down...
Early in the film, we learn they are both assassins. We also learn they are both assassin hired to kill the same man. When both of them are at the scene, both are unsuccessful in their attempts to kill the victim, because they both suspect a riveling assassin at the scene. As they gather their own clues, they now know they are hired to kill each other...
The trailer for 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' is misleading in a way. The film looks as if the entire running time is filled up with them trying to kill each other. But, this is not the whole story. After several unsuccessful attempts to kill each other, they both return to their house one night to battle it out.
One would think, at the climax of this scene, the film would end, telling us who wins. But, at the end of this battle, it leads to sex and laugh about the whole situation. Later, as a partnered team, they kidnap Benjamin(Brody) and discover that he was bait for them, and both of their sides wanted them to take each other out. From that point on, they are chased because they are worth 400,000 a piece.
I dare you to watch 'Mr. and Mrs Smith' and not have fun... 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' is the funnest movie so far this year.
'Mr and Mrs. Smith' is filled with amazing chase scenes, witty humor and overflows with a genuine hipness and seductivity. This film works on almost every level it attempts to succeed on. The camera loves Jolie and Pitt, and you can tell they love the camera as well: Pitt's tough-guy yet sincere image, Jolie's butt-kicking, sassy girl character. The basic idea here is for us to see beautiful people blowing things up, and that's why one would buy a ticket here, particularly in the summer.
Although preposterous, 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' is coated with such a silly, fun and hip texture, it's hard to resist.
'Mr. and Mrs. Smith': 4.5 from 5 PG13- intense sequences of action/violence and some sexual content/language.