Mr

Doesn't marriage counseling always involve bloodshed?

What a great freaking movie.

Truly, this is great flick, funny as hell, beautifully directed, well-written (except for Vince Vaughn's un-adlibbed lines, which are awful, thank goodness he's talented enough to adlib the best parts), and wonderfully acted.

Whatever the rumor-mill has to say, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie do have fantastic chemistry and pull off being a married couple, both in boredom and in bullets. The story is clever, and well put together, the action fantastic and the special effects are almost unnoticable, which is a good thing these days. My favorite bit of CG is Angelina Jolie's Batman jump.

What makes this movie is dialogue between the husband and wife, as they must reintroduce themselves to each other, their false identities aside. All this must happen while fighting for their lives, and trying to decide whether to save the marriage or murder each other. The bookending of marriage counseling makes it come full circle and work perfectly.

And the Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid reference is awesome in the tool shed sequence.

There's not a whole lot of opining one can do about this movie; it's not overly deep, it's not at all shallow. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a wonderful commentary about marriage using an extreme situation to talk about day to day life in stagnation... which it doesn't have to be.

See this in theaters; you'll laugh, you'll... laugh, and you'll love the action. Truly a super movie.

Light fun
by Joe De Matteo

Solid

This film takes me back to the old romantic comedies, well, that's me. It's a fun movie that many of us will find rewatchable, but I think it will be more successful on DVD than in the theaters. Don't get me wrong, it is absolutely worth seeing in theaters. It's a great date film, a good movie for both him and her to enjoy.

Brad Pitt is great in this type of part; cool, funny, and a tough guy that woman like.

Angelina Jolie is everything you expect of her, and more. They actually make a great team. I'd like to see more of them together, and that is based on their performances in this film.

You have to know the story by now, a suburban couple who are both hired assassins living a secret life, even from each other. And there is the rub. They each get contracts on the other.

Vince Vaughn, playing a convincing Vince Vaughn, whose name in this picture is Eddie. Those of us who like Vince want him to be Vince Vaughn with different names in different situations. It works, he's a great character.

At the top of this review I said this was a romantic comedy and it is. Though most people would think of the Philadelphia Story (both the 1940 and 1959 makes are great), but that was then and this is now, a romantic comedy can also include action, adventure and thrilling suspense.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith will not win best picture of the year, but it will entertain you. It will be a couple of hours well spent.

Enjoy it.