Mr & Mrs Smith
We start out with a couple whose marriage troubles have brought them to a marriage counselor. The problem is that they really don’t know each other. They don’t talk. And to top it off, they are both assassins leading double lives, lying to each other about their jobs.
The trouble really starts when they are both assigned to kill the same man. Neither knows the other is there and both manage to botch the job. When Mrs. Smith discovers that her husband, a man she hasn’t loved in five (or was it six?) years of marriage caused her to fail at her assignment, their relationship takes a turn for the worse as marital animosity turns to professional one-up-manship. With the stakes rising higher and higher, these two expert killers are unable to kill each other – even though there are plenty of bodies to go around. Remarkably, trying to kill each other brings them closer together as they find themselves in the sites of leagues of hit men.
The movie was a little predictable and the plot twists were more like gradual curves than hairpins allowing a look much further ahead than a true suspensful film would have worked toward. It was a decent film that didn’t try too hard to be clever, with a predictable ending, but worth watching through once for the action addict.
