Saw Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt last night. Bottom line, it was fun action comedy that I enjoyed a lot. I do wish, however, that Vince Vaughn had played in it more, his scenes were the funniest (“Mom! We’re on high alert here! I could have killed you, you don’t even know!”). Also, the kiss and make up between Mr. and Mrs. was rather abrupt and would’ve helped the movie by being more sincere. The bit about the job that they both took on was kind of confusing to me, I couldn’t understand a lot of the dialogue in that section and didn’t really understand who the kid was or what they were each trying to do. The ending fight was completely ridiculous and a little unsatisfying because of it, it made a kind of lame conclusion. I enjoyed the Fight Club reference on the kid’s t-shirt when they caught him. IMDB credits list Efren Ramirez (Pedro Sanchez from Napoleon Dynamite) as being in the film, but don’t list a role for him and I don’t recall ever seeing him. Angela Bassett is similarly listed, I think the list is a little wonky. Anyway, enjoyable film, check it out.
First of all, why do you insist on seeing the bad movies? I list it as three kernels on my site but I am being generous. The “kid” you are refering to is the actor that plays Seth on “The OC” and he is the only outstanding part of the flick. Don’t trust IMDB. You can list yourself as a pirate extra on that little sequel you wanted to be in if you want to on IMDB. I know you are gonna think I am stupid, but “Sharkboy & Lavagirl” is far more exciting than “Brad Acting & Angelina Incest.” At least the kid’s flick is in 3-D and doesn’t have an ending some screenwriter found on his toilet paper. Oh God I wish I could have that sort of line printed in the newspaper!
Hey, whatever, it was a fun action flick! And I’m sure you could have that line printed, you could be the Howard Stern of movie reviews. Except you’d have to use it to describe Son of the Mask or else no one would take you seriously… ;)
Edit: After reading your review, I would agree that Pitt is a one-trick pony, but I would argue that he plays his one character very well and for this movie, it fits. I enjoy most of the movies of this kind that I see him in, such as Snatch, which was terrific. I’ll have to check out that Banderas/Liu movie you mention, though. I haven’t heard of it before, but it sounds cool.
Oh, and they fixed the cast list.