way too long

Rating: 4/10 (23 June 2005)

I was really shocked by how poorly it all came together in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. While the sexy fête-a-fête scenes may have worked well on the storyboard, they didn't jive with the violence...maybe I'm not as desensitized as most, but it seemed as if they hoped to trivialize the violence as they built the tension (both sexual and otherwise) between Jolie and Pitt. Entirely over-the-top and drawn out...I was yawning 90 minutes in and that's where Mr. and Mrs. Smith-in a failed attempt at blending action, comedy and drama-should have ended. I haven't seen Girl Interrupted and I hate to base Jolie's work on Tombraider and this piece of horse puckey, but she didn't do much for me on the acting side. Her physical presence is stunning enough that it would have sufficed to carry her through the film had it been shorter and tied things up more quickly. Props to V. Vaughan though for his standard Swingers shtick.