Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

John and Jane Smith (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) are a married couple, both John and Jane are living unexciting lives and they have both been attending marriage therapy, as their lives haven't been passionate since they got married. But what they don't know about each other is that they are both professional assassins working for two rival agency's. John's latest assignment is to eliminate Benjaiman "Tank" Danz, but it all becomes complicated when Jane is also assigned to eliminate the same target that John has been assigned to kill. Learning that they are both assassins and failing to eliminate the target, both of John and Jane's employers decides that they they should try to take each other out (John kill Jane, Jane kill John) as hilarity ensues. Engaged in a deadly game, John and Jane try to take each other out while learning more about each other's secret lifes.

Trivia: The script reportedly went through over fifty drafts. Brad Pitt left in the middle of shooting for three months to shoot Ocean's Twelve. Near the end of the story, when Benjamin is being interrogated by the Smiths, he is wearing a Fight Club shirt. Brad Pitt starred in Fight Club. When Jane and John are discussing past assassinations, John refers to Jean-Luc Gespar, which was the real name for the character LaMarc in Ocean's Twelve. After the Smiths discover each other's identities, Jane speeds away in the car and John is running after her. He ends up tripping and crashing through a fence, and his gun goes off. The trip was a mistake, and Brad Pitt's reaction, as well as his following ad-lib, "Oh dear God," are genuine.

There is a little joke over at FilmWise.com (the movie forum I frequent) that Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the "Best Movie Ever". Well, it isn't but it is pretty fun to watch. It has all the cliches of an action spy shoot 'em up type thriller, especially in the climactic shootout. Brad and Angeline wear bullet proof vests...vests...as in only covering their torsos. These vest stop probably 50 to 60 shots each, with the rest of their injuries being nicks and cuts and scrapes. But the bad guys, all 20 or so seem to also be wearing bullet proof vests, but our intrepid duo takes them all out fairly easily with one of two shots. The interaction between Brad and Angelina is really what makes the movie for me. Their banter is playful and funny. The trailer, however is a little misleading as it shows Mrs. Smith in several slinky costumes and situations that are not in the movie, she does wear some slinky costumes but only some of the time *wink*.