Mr And Mrs Smith on DVD (2005)

Instantly forgettable, extremely enjoyable

Tim Turner from Manchester , 11/06/2005

No-one will win any Oscars for this one, and I'll probably have forgotten about this movie in a week. But while it's on, 'Mr and Mrs Smith' is a cracking piece of entertainment. We went to see it on the basis that Doug Liman had made three good pictures ('Swingers', 'Go' and 'The Bourne Identity') and the two stars are usually good value for money. The logic is sound. If you don't like Pitt's excitable boyish persona and Jolie's smouldering, slightly perverse image, you won't like this film. Virtually plotless, with one-liners instead of proper dialogue and built around a succession of effective set pieces, the film is built on the enormous charisma of the two stars, and that turns out to be more than enough. There are a few real surprises (like the ferocity of the Smith's fight with each other halfway through), some genuinely hilarious moments (listen carefully for the joke about 'Fantasy Island'), and it moves along at a cracking pace without ever really drawing breath. It's no classic, but who cares, the film's job is to entertain and it does that perfectly well.

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superb

williamsgwynfa [Highly rated reviewer] , 17/04/2007

this dvd is superb. The film starts with a bored couple, that go to a marriage guidance counsellor, in order to do something, to save their marriage.

They seem a couple like many others, so immersed in their routine that they hardly pay attention to each other.

John Smith (Brad Pitt) is an architect, Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) works with computers. They have dinner at seven o'clock everyday, and don't talk too much.

But, not all is at it seems in their apparently ordinary lives. As a matter of fact, both are assassins working for rival companies. Neither Jane nor John knows about the extracurricular activities of their other half, despite the fact that they have been married for six years. But soon enough they will find out, as both are assigned the same target, 'The tank' (played by Adam Brody). mayhem ensues.

this movie is an action movie, with lots of guns, knives and bombs etc. the dialogue is sharp, and very funny at times, particularly when the Smith's are bickering.

my husband's favourite line in the movie, was when Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie's character) said to John Smith, (Brad Pitt's character), 'Are you still alive, Baby?' . it is a classic.

this film is well worth renting out.

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Good Blockbuster Fun

Gromit from Canterbury , 05/04/2006

This is an a-typical hollywood blockbuster summer release. It has all the right ingredients - beautiful people looking suitably beautiful, ridiculously over-the-top stunts, adrenaline oozing from every pore and a script that feels like it was written by the director's five year old son. If you like your movies loud and forgettable, you'll love this...if you expect anything more you will inevitably be disappointed, which in my book makes you an idiot. A good film to test out your new home cinema system.

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Starts well but becomes a shambles

FilmReviewer from Greater Manchester , 26/11/2005

Starts well but becomes a shambles due to a plot that any school kid could have written as their homework plus what's really wrong with this film - Brad Pitt isn't an actor. Where's the emotions? Not from any member of this cast will you see any emotions backing up their actions. For example you're a hostage tied up and 2 people are trying to get information from you - for no apparent reason you volunteer the info from your back pocket - you dont even say 'hey please dont shoot me' - you're a hostage but talk like you're round for a cup of tea - ie. no depth of character, no emotion. At 2 points in the film their feelings change for each other (mr and mrs smith) - these changes are handled with no investment in the characters by the actors - ie. they show us no emotional indications. The action is good and the effects are reasonable but I expected True Lies and got nowhere near that. True Lies will exist in my list of excellent action movies long after the memory of this film has gone. The film also ends very abruptly - this could be to ensure the audience wakes up. It is a film of many wasted opportunities for better acting, better dialogue and a better plot.

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As bad as it gets

Pedropete from Glasgow , 10/02/2008

One of the worst big budget films I have ever seen. Utterly without merit.

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AWFUL

Gillian Cassidy from Cheshire, England , 05/03/2007

IN A WORD ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE DID NOT SEE THE END

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