Movie Scene Review: Mr & Mrs Smith 2005

Directed by    Doug Liman
Produced by    Akiva Goldsman
Arnon Milchan
Lucas Foster
Written by    Simon Kinberg
Starring    Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie
Vince Vaughn
Kerry Washington
Adam Brody
Music by    John Powell
Cinematography    Bojan Bazelli
Edited by    Michael Tronick
Production
company    Regency Enterprises
New Regency
Weed Road Pictures
Distributed by    20th Century Fox
Summit Entertainment
Release dates    June 7, 2005 (premiere)
June 10, 2005 (United States)
Running time    120 minutes
Country    United States
Language    English
Budget    $110 million
Box office    $478,336,279

Plot

The film opens with John (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple has been married for "five or six" years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities; since the authorities were looking for tourists traveling alone after a recent heist, the two claimed to be together to avoid being questioned. They quickly fell in love and married. John later states that Jane "looked like Christmas morning" to him on the day they met.

In reality, John and Jane are both skilled assassins working for different firms, both among the best in their field. Each is concealing their true profession from their spouse. Jane owns I-Temp Technology Staffing, while John owns Smith Engineering, Inc. The couple live in a large, remodelled Colonial Revival house in the suburbs, and drive a Mercedes-Benz C-Class estate and a Cadillac CTS-V sedan. To keep up appearances, they socialise with their other wealthy neighbours at respectable parties.

Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage – which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating – with their secretive work. When both
are assigned to kill DIA prisoner Benjamin "The Tank" Danz (Adam Brody) during a transfer, they encounter each other on the job and the hit ends up being botched. After their respective companies find out about the botched hit, they are assigned to discover and eliminate the other.

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