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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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
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.
40
The movie is a technological and publicity triumph, and a calamity in every other way.
70
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.
63
ReelViews by 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.
80
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Ken Tucker
A cool summer thriller whose laughs don't slow down the suspense.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by 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.
67
Entertainment Weekly by 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.
80
Plays like an old-fashioned romantic comedy with updated hardware.
60
An exhaustingly elaborate romantic fantasy actioner.