@wolfkin That is why they are making a show of Mr and Mrs Smith. I have the same opinion as you when i first saw that movie. i thought "that will make an excellent tv show" it took a couple of years.
But this is soooo wasted in many movies, a woman or a man that has a secret life of assassin, or a former CIA employee or similar.
@great_vc I know it's not out yet but I'm not a fan of what I've seen of Mr and Mrs Smith the TV show. I'm not a fan of the changes to the character dynamics (everything seems to indicate they aren't hiding their spy-status from each other) and more importantly I don't like the chemistry of the show. I like the actors individually but I don't like what I see of them working well together. One thing I'll say about Role Play is that even in the trailers I was kinda pleasantly surprised at how good the leads looked together and the chemistry continued in the film. Even True Lies the TV show I think the leads had good chemistry. The writing was just not interesting unfortunately. It had moments but only moments.
That said I have very famously been wrong in the past. Heck I was super super against lady Starbuck and Black Spider-Man but in both cases I've been converted. I love the Spider-Verse films and was a fan of Miles shortly before they came out. BSG for like 3 seasons, was one of the best scifi epic shows not named Farscape. I'm definitely watching Mr. and Mrs Smith. I like Maya and Donald is usually fine. Maybe I'll be proven wrong and get to add another notch at the "I clearly can't predict goodness" belt.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2024-01-12T20:52:18Z— updated 2024-01-24T16:20:06Z
It wasn't bad. But honestly I'm very very disappointed this isn't a TV show. I misread the trailer and wasn't expecting a movie. I think this would have been amazing as TV show. It could have done what the True Lies tv show failed to do. It would have done what I expect the upcoming Mr and Mrs Smith show will fail to do. Kaley did a solid job as an action character. She's no Megan Fox in Rogue (2020) [awful movie but Fox was excellent] but she was solid. I'm not her biggest fan but I don't hate her and, respect where respect is due, her acting was more than okay. David however, like the plot, was under-fulfilled. I think he could have done more with his character of the straightman muggle husband. The script just didn't give any room for it. They did have more chemistry than I expected they would. I saw the trailer and in no way did I think I would buy them as a couple 100%, I was expecting maybe 60% buy in, but I kinda do.
Antagonists Bill Nighy and Connie Nielsen were enjoyably bad. Though Connie was under written. I didn't really get that slightly psychotic character from her the way the script seemed to want me to.
The tone of the movie was uneven. You're never really quite rocked out of the mood of the movie, but you've never sitting comfortable in it either. Mr. and Mrs. Smith the movie was very much a sexy spy "kill a bunch of guys" movie with likes of whiplash pans. True Lies the movie was very much an Arnold comedy with a bunch of one-liners and amusing growls. There are others that are more about the romance like say Mr Right or This Means War. Which are all very much comedic spy stuff with a heavy heavy dose of RomCom. The ingredients were there to make this the variation that focused on Romance with a capital R. I haven't seen one of those in a while and like I said they had the chemistry for it. But the movie wants to be an R-rated comedy so it tries to have it's cake and eat it too.
Almost every problem I had with this would have been resolved if it had been a full season length. Heck I might have even bonded with the kids. They could be given personalities and then maybe I'd care when their health is threatened.