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Mr. and Mrs. Smith
EMAILPRINTTwentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

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Based on 41 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Romance
Written by: Simon Kinberg
Directed by: Doug Liman
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 10, 2005
DVD: November 29, 2005
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sequences of violence, intense action, sexual content and brief strong language
Starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Vince Vaughn, Angela Bassett, William Fichtner, and Keith David
John and Jane Smith are an ordinary suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless suburban marriage. But each of them has a secret: They are legendary assassins working for competing organizations. When the truth comes out, John and Jane end up in each other's cross-hairs. (20th Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Empire Simon Braund
A full-on action flick, subversive rom-com and weapons-grade star vehicle that’s drenched in Tinseltown glitz, from a director who knows how to put the money on the screen while his tongue’s firmly in his cheek.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Ken Tucker
A cool summer thriller whose laughs don't slow down the suspense.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Expertly tossing off the type of well-sharpened banter that was the domain of Gable and Lombard and Tracy and Hepburn, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie -- no matter what their off-camera status -- make one swell combative couple.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Plays like an old-fashioned romantic comedy with updated hardware.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
A kicky, twisted thrill ride, with enough laughs to leaven what can be read, at heart, as a metaphor for the modern marriage.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Jolie and Pitt project more than just body heat. They convey a multi-faceted attraction, toss off clever repartee and dazzle audiences with their seemingly natural connection. And that's worth watching.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The screen smokes with sexual heat. But what's really erotic is how much fun the actors seem to be having.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
What makes the movie work is that Pitt and Jolie have fun together on the screen, and they're able to find a rhythm that allows them to be understated and amused even during the most alarming developments.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Alas, around about the third act, the idea grows tired and the whole thing gets derailed. Too bad, because it's a good ride until it isn't.
Read Full Review >Premiere Peter Debruge
Features some of the best fight and chase footage you'll see all summer.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Bill Gallo
Here is "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" inflated to lethal proportion, or "The War of the Roses" reimagined as World War III.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
A tongue-in-cheek allegory on the hazards of harboring secrets in a relationship, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is most entertaining when the Smiths are hell-bent on mutual annihilation.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
Imagine "The War of the Roses" remade as a James Bond fantasy, with appropriately high-tech weaponry, and you have some idea of what Doug Liman's heavily armed comedy has in store.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Clint Morris
As he proved with "The Bourne Identity," director Doug Liman can devise an enjoyable little action movie.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
There's a car chase that's more fluid and inventive than the much-touted freeway sequence in "The Matrix Reloaded," and the stars are nimble enough to make their acrobatics credible--no matter how many stunt doubles the picture employed.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
In the end, star charisma and Liman's style win us over and we relax into a sophisticated summertime diversion that is noticeably intended for adults.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Some people will see Mr. and Mrs. Smith as cynical, but I think its heart is deeply romantic, admittedly in an anvil-on-the-head kind of way. It's a love story not for the faint of heart. In other words, it's a lot like marriage.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
The fact that Pitt and Jolie have not been associated with this type of action is something of a help, but what was needed was the off-balance tickle that--to fantasize--Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell would have given it.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
For all the nimbleness of its first half and the chemical zing of Pitt and Jolie, the film devolves into a fractious and explosive mess, hitting the same note of ''ironic'' violence over and over.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Mr. & Mrs. Smith kicks off with panache and star power - and quickly wears out its welcome.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The problem with Mr. and Mrs. Smith is that it's really two movies in one. The first is a sly comedy/thriller worthy of Hitchcock, and the other is a big, noisy summer action flick.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The movie reminded me of a relatively new product, the little translucent wafer that you put on your tongue to freshen your breath. One hit of intense flavor and the thing dissolves without a trace.
Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
If the two most gorgeous people in the world alternately bantering and making out isn't enough to compel the attention of the average American moviegoer, then we are truly doomed.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
An action comedy for suburban women that's as toothless as a newborn, and nearly as stupid. It tries so hard to be cute that it practically drools on your shoulder.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Only Vince Vaughn registers hilariously as John's boss.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Pitt coasts through the movie in second gear. I have no idea what he's trying to accomplish with his tight-lipped, low-key performance; maybe he's angling to replace Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible IV."
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
It's a perfect role for Jolie, whose seductive looks always seem to be concealing something dangerous, even predatory, and she brings out a looseness in Pitt, who fares much better in comedic roles than when playing things straight and stoic (i.e. Troy).
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Jolie has a gangly inelegance that suggests a giraffe trying to hang wallpaper -- but the entire movie is predicated on a spark between its prettier-than-thou stars that seems to have bypassed the screen and ignited in the tabloids instead.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This romantic-comedy action movie is a fizzle.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Maybe my priorities are wrong, but this inquiring mind wants to know when these two will find a movie entirely worthy of his understatement and her naughtiness. This one has its moments, but it's also littered with action-flick junk.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
By the time the film winds itself up, the sophisticated fizz of its first 45 minutes has been smothered by explosive bombast.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Uneven, ineffective mash-up of sex comedy and artillery-heavy action.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
The movie is a technological and publicity triumph, and a calamity in every other way.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
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 and occasionally incoherent action. Sometimes Mr. Pitt and Ms. Jolie succeed in their mutual role as sucker bait, sometimes they don't, which is why their new joint venture is alternately a goof and a drag.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
To watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which continually sacrifices its potential for sophisticated fun on the altar of style and physical stunts, is to realize how far we've come from the great movies of, say, George Cukor or Howard Hawks.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
It's hard to know what these stars are ready for after this fiasco. Maybe a fitness video.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A deeply stupid and offensive action comedy-romance.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It may be emblematic of new-millennium Hollywood that this movie has turned out to be one more emotionless, brainless, overproduced action film.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The film is glossy, but awful. Frenetic, but awful. Expensive, but awful. ... And awful.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The movie is a mish-mash of action-adventure clichés, book-ended with lame attempts at psychological interest. Written, directed, and acted with ham-fisted heaviness.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 213 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Movie Goer gave it a4:
This was a bit of a lame film, it just doesn't have that quality like True Lies or Romancing the Stone/War of Roses movies. It was overhyped using Brangelina, the story/script was a little weak and some 'comedic' moments weren't funny and too cliche. Some of it was kinda cringeworthy, Brad and Angelina's acting were good considering the bad script they were working with, although some of that acting was a bit too superficial/cliche too. Some parts of the film was not that bad, but some of it really was crap. It wouldn't be a film I'd see again.
Hisham I. gave it a10:
Watched this movie and I thing it is great!!!
chris gave it a0:
Great premise, horrible delivery. this is the only movie i've ever walked out on. i didn't even walk out on Gigli, which is definetely saying something. The "soundtrack" to this movie was terrible. i've heard better music in an amateur porno.
sylvain b gave it a1:
Flat, empty. A good movie for brainless who just wanna see "hot" people on screen and pay for it.
Wacky Wherehouse gave it a3:
What a long commercial, gin, jonhnny , mercedes benz., and super watches . Be sure to read credits, written by, simon kinberg AKA smoking erb, went to school with the fool.
Fred Bob gave it an8:
Jolie is the hottest woman in the world, and...... well......... thats about ll i can say. The movie is well done, but has a couple of boring spots. Pitt and Jolie are great!
Kevin D. gave it a6:
Jolie and Pitt are hot on their own, but they can't seem to connect. There's no plot and character development. Only lots of sex and guns, but hey, isn't that what it's about?
