Brainless fare from a script that was no doubt better than its end result

Rating: 4/10 (11 March 2007)

Having met with the writer I can appreciate the hell he had to go through to get his idea produced. Interminable re-writes and deadlines, actors coming and going, directors who don't want to merely tell a story as an unobtrusive observer but who want to show off the camera-work, and an entire third act of the film shot after it had been finished, and you have the reasons why this is probably less than it could have been.
An extraordinary premise where the unlikely event of a husband and wife killing team are totally unaware of each other's 'job'; a hidden set of weapons hidden in the kitchen somehow totally unbeknownst to hubby, and a cold, cynical couple of characters who we are somehow supposed to feel something for glamorising assassination and you have the reasons for the downfall of the Hollywood industry.
How brain-dead do you have to be to like this stuff? Just shooting a blowing up things is interminably destructive to the human psyche...it's boring and unchallenging. This makes for the suspension of credibility in any relationship these two stars were trying to portray.
I cannot see at all what is sexy about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They are the coldest, most unemotional representatives on the screen and I could quite see the pair of them plotting each other's demise even if they weren't playing characters in a film. They look great but where's the compassion in any of their films? I really wanted to see the film based upon all the recommendations that were made to me, but I couldn't get through the mind-numbing nonsense of it all.