My review: Mr. & Mrs. Smith

December 20, 2005 0 Comments

Bailey was at the in-laws over the weekend, to Keli and I took the opportunity to rent some movies that we could actually sit and watch without a million interruptinos. One of them was Mr. & Mrs. Smith – Keli wanted to watch Brad Pitt and I wanted to watch Angelina Jolie – so it all worked out.

The premise of the movie is this: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play a married couple who are getting bored with their domestic life. They don’t know that they are both assassins, both keeping thier assassin profession a secret from the other until the day they’re both sent to kill their spouse.

I thought the movie was quite good and will probably buy it. The stunts were absurdly impossible (but isn’t that why we watch action flicks in the first place?) but I think they were done that way to maintain the humorous feeling of the movie. Anybody who has been in a long-term relationship or is/has been married will appreciate all the little details of the movie that you can tell, loads of work went into in order to portray the actors as every day people.

Keli should get a special medal or something for putting up with me sometimes. I kept backing up scenes in the movie to watch some little miniscule detail a second time – like cracking up over Brad Pitt sliding back and forth in his desk chair because he forgot his coffee. Or a scene where they’re both in their outrageously large bathroom (the house in the movie is amazing) where the entire scene consists of Pitt clipping his fingernails coplementing Jolie on the dress she wore earlier in the evening. Why were those things so funny to me? I have no clue. Again, most of the appeal of the movie to me was all the little, every day details that most movies leave out. The typical husband-wife ‘discussion’ over new drapes, changes made to a certain meal for dinner and even the way they argued and bickered. Brad Pitt has an gift for using his expressions and tone of voice to make a line that much better, or to make a scene with no words – just character observation – quite funny.

If you have Netflix or rent movies, definitely pick this up. Keli doesn’t think she’d go out and buy it, but I would just because I thought the movie was well done, the action scenes were really fun to watch even if they were mindbogglingly silly, and Vince Vaughn was great as well in his brief scenes.

The Spoilers & Nitty Gritty

Language - There was some “bleep words” (as my 12-year-old sister-in-law calls them) but nothing too terrible that I recall.

Violence - Lots of shooting, attempts to assassinate people including the main characters trying to kill each other. Hey, the movie is about two assassins trying to kill each other to ‘clean up’ the same botched hit job.

Sexuality/Nudity - No nudity. But there is a decent scene of Angelina in a latex dominatrix outfit (complete with stillettos and thigh-highs) smacking a soon-to-be-dead-guy with a riding crop. There’s also a scene (possibly two, sorry, I don’t recall exactly) of Brad and Angelina making up after almost killing each other.

The movie got a PG-13 rating, so there’s not too much to worry about.