Review – Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Normally I don’t have a problem with a mix of action and comedy, but that assumes the action is exciting and/or the comedy is funny. Wrong on both counts here. It didn’t help that the plot was paper-thin. Two glamorous assassins are married to each other without being aware of their partners’ chosen careers. Once each finds out what the other does for a living, they spend a good-sized chunk of the rest of the movie trying to kill each other. And no, the logic really isn’t any better than that. Story aside, however, the movie falls flat because it fails to deliver either thrills or laughs. The gun battles in particular go on for so long and depend on so many ridiculous elements that they almost become self-parody. And the romantic comedy angle never rises above a bad episode of Friends. Honestly, there was as much entertainment value in the five minutes of back-story at the beginning of Spy Kids than there was in this expensive, two-hour debacle. See if desperate