Mr
and Mrs Smith Review
Cast:-
BRAD PITT
ANGELINA JOLIE
ADAM BRODY
KERRY WASHINGTON
STEPHANIE MARCH
JENNIFER MORRISON
PERREY REEVES
CHRIS WEITZ
Synopsis:-
A sexy, action-packed thrill
ride about a bored married couple who discover that
they are enemy assassins. John and Jane Smith are an
ordinary suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless
suburban marriage. But each of them has a secret --
they are actually both legendary assassins working for
competing organizations. When the truth comes out, John
and Jane end up in each other's next mark.
Plot:-
John and Jane Smith are a
couple who have been married for 6 years and things
appear to be normal. But it appears that things are
changing--they are seeing a marriage counselor. And
what neither of them know is that they are professional
assassins. However, they are both assigned by their
employers to kill the same person. When they each try
to take out the target, they get in each other's way
and blow the job. Now they are told to go after the
person who made them miss the target. And when they
learn about each other, they try to take each other
out.
What the critics
say:-
And so here we have Mr
and Mrs Smith — young, married and bored. Every
day, Mr and Mrs Smith rise from their cold bed,
drink their hot coffee, drive off in their gleaming
imports. But we know the joke: Mr and Mrs Smith
are professional assassins. And after a chaotic trip
down memory lane, they discover their mutual subterfuge
and quickly experience the agonies of betrayal. The
difference being that, instead of throwing a plate against
the wall or lobbing an ashtray at their beloved, they
lock and load. That's pretty much the entire film, or
what passes for its story. Mr and Mrs Smith are
played by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, beautiful movie
stars who can also be exceptionally fine actors. Fine
acting is generally not part of the equation when it
comes to deterministically high-concept vehicles like
"Mr and Mrs Smith," which wring profits
and thrills from that classic American mix of sexual
titillation and hard-core violence. What counts in a
movie like this are stars so dazzling that we won't
really notice or at least mind the cut-rate writing
(from Simon Kinberg) and occasionally incoherent action
(from the director Doug Liman).
Review by:- Manohla
Dargis, The New York Times
