Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | My all time favorite | Content
 | Personally I like dark comedies. Up until Mr. And Mrs. Smith, My all time favorite was Grosse Pointe Blank. But when this movie came out, I said to myself "THIS MOVIE ROCKS!!!" it's dark but not so dark that it puts people to sleep. This movie has outstanding Action sequences, great humorous lines, a good looking actor, and the most beautiful actress of all time. You can't go wrong with these factors plus a soundtrack with nothing but love songs and the director of "The Bourne Identity". This movie is at the very least a must see. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Spy vs Spy | Content
| This movie packs a killer punch
Despite a plot that's out to lunch
Sometimes you just can't get enough
Of spies and guns and hi-tech stuff
John and Jane are paid to kill
They work with style and flair and skill
With real cool weapons, Tomb Raider style
Yet neither's seen the other's file
But then there's the Achilles heel
Their marriage isn't really real
And when the target's at close range
Their ideal lifestyle has to change
They then proceed to wreck the house
In a deadly game of cat and mouse
But Cupid's arrow stays the course
They pay a shrink and don't divorce
At least the casting wasn't dumb
Angelina wasn't John Smith's mum
But when rumors flew at filming's end
it was Brad Pitt who lost a "Friend"
Amanda Richards, August 7, 2005
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| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Mr & Mrs. Smith is coming to DVD November 29th, 2005 | Content
| Mr & Mrs. Smith is one of the summers most entertaining movies. I have to say this movie was far better than i expected it to be. What makes this movie so awesome is the attatchment you get to the characters. Brad Pitt is awesome in this movie and hilareous as well. Angelina Jolie did a wonderful job as well. The chemistry between these two is intense and at times very believable. The movie does start out slow and is over the top at times, but it is really a great movie. I have always liked Brad Pitts (Fight Club, Troy) movies but with this movie you see more of a three dimentional character and not just some one dimentional hot looking guy on screen. If you like entertaining and awesome movies then check out Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The DVD will be released Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 and will be loaded with extras!
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| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | sound and fury signifying..... | Content
| In MR. & MRS. SMITH, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play an unhappily married couple who are, unknowingly, working for rival professional assassination organizations. When their identities are revealed, they turn against each other but then realize they must work together to stay alive.
The central problem in SMITH is tone...there aren't enough laughs, and the paper thin plot is really just an excuse to blow things up. Of course, what people want to see is Pitt and Jolie together....there is an undeniable chemistry between the two stars, but Pitt is terrible. He's totally unable to suggest the level of deception that Smith must maintain, or to convey much interest in the proceedings at all. Jolie, it seems strange to say, is actually the best thing about SMITH. Her confusion at her growing attraction to Pitt and the conflict between love and duty provides what little emotional content the movie has.
SMITH is credited to one screenwriter but feels like the product of mass indecision....also with Adam Brody and an unbilled Vince Vaughn. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | A Joyless and Mind-Numbing Five Hours | Content
| It sure seemed like five hours, I was checking my watch every five minutes; about the same as for "King Arthur" and "Electra", but a little less than "Catwoman". It borrows the domestic-secret agent concept from "True Lies" but has none of the charm of that movie.
I truly cannot imagine anyone with even an average level of intelligence or sophistication enjoying this thing. It is just one pointless bit of excess after another. Don't worry about the plot because the writer, director, and editor apparently did not bother to include one. And it's not really an action picture even though there is one mind-numbingly boring CG enhanced action sequence after another.
What saves this from a complete suck-fest is that Pitt and Jolie seem to be having fun together on the screen. But now I understand Jolie's latest comments about giving up her acting career, there can't be much professional satisfaction making crap like this so unless you need the money why bother. I will miss being amused thinking about how much her face resembles what Jessica Alba would see if she looked at herself in a warped fun house mirror.
The 100 million dollar cost of this movie was only 35 million less than Spielberg's "War of the Worlds". While very little of this budget found its way onto the screen, the movie is having no trouble generating enough box office to cover the cost. So my finding it incomprehensible that anyone would find it entertaining is pretty much irrelevant. ECON 101 tells us that people would not shell out money to see this if they did not derive considerable utility from the viewing (maybe even multiple viewings).
As long as some of this type of stuff makes money, Hollywood will churn it out. And as American citizens this is really more about embarrassment than anything else since we are not being forced to watch it. Whether you blame our education process, our gene pool, or just our culture; the fact is that pretty much the whole rest of the world feels a collective superiority every time we crank out something this moronic and devour it like a bunch of rubes who just saw their first moving picture.
So you can understand the laments that Hollywood big movies are killing intelligent cinema. But if it is any consolation I just caught the ending of the original 1976 version of "Freaky Friday", which featured car chase and water ski sequences almost as moronic the action sequences in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". This in spite of a cast that included Jodie Foster, John Astin, and Barbara Harris (fresh off her fantastic performance in "Nashville"). In the almost 30 years since, the industry has managed to crank out an impressive number of so-called blockbusters that were actually pretty good (yes there were many more that were horrible), and the independent film movement has hung in there and produced some truly fantastic films. So maybe things are not as bleak as they seem while suffering through "Mr. & Mrs. Smith".
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