{"id":1617,"date":"2005-06-15T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1617.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","slug":"mr-and-mrs-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/06\/15\/mr-and-mrs-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Mr. &#038; Mrs. Smith<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fully agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themovieblog.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/richard_reviews_mr_and_mrs_smith.html\">Richard<\/a> that this is a very entertaining film to <em>watch<\/em>, but it fades from memory as soon as you leave the cinema.  I think it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s all just a bit too <em>slick<\/em>, a bit too <em>smooth<\/em>.  Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have the glossy but coolly estranged couple thing down pat, but when the script calls for passion, it&#8217;s very controlled.  Likewise, they look the part when it comes to showing off their gizmos and guns, but when the shooting starts, they look like they don&#8217;t care all that much.  There&#8217;s no grit, no tension, no real sense of danger that things might not work out for the best.  Compare this to <i>The Bourne Identity<\/i>, a masterpiece of spy thriller tension, which was also directed by Doug Liman, and I felt disappointed that <i>Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith<\/i> was merely <em>good fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fully agree with Richard that this is a very entertaining film to watch, but it fades from memory as soon as you leave the cinema. I think it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s all just a bit too slick, a bit too smooth. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have the glossy but coolly estranged couple thing down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}