Bad. Really, really bad.

Rating: 2/10 (10 July 2005)

The producers of this are the luckiest people in Hollywood at the moment. Thanks to the celebrity-snogging factor, they've been saved from the box office drubbing they so richly deserved. How sad. People really are sheep.
The first hour is (barely) passable; the second is just dreary. Things explode and lots and lots of people are killed; this is just as much a video game as either of Jolie's awful Lara Croft pictures. The extended action sequence in which the married cold-blooded killers (oh...they are "professionals," so we're not supposed to notice that they are the scum of the earth) destroy their house while trying to kill each other and then play violent make-up games is utterly predictable and utterly revolting. This movie has the moral core of a New York pimp. It also has no ending, but you can say that about 2 out of 3 Hollywood movies these days.
If this were truly played for laughs it might have been a kick, like the original version of "The In-Laws" with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. But it's not funny, not by a long shot. I guess the one consolation is that, based on appearances at least, Pitt and Jolie will probably use some of their take from this pile to do something good out in the real world.
Somebody give Doug Liman a script, please. I think he may aspire to being a movie director, not just a wholesale consumer of firearms and ammunition.