I'm not really sure what section this film should be in, so feel free to move it.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star as John and Jane Smith. Married for "five or six years," they don't realise their increasingly troubled marriage is the result of the lie central to it, that they are both professional killers who have hidden the fact from each other. But things begin to totally fall apart when they are sent after the same target by their respective firms and learn the truth about each other.

At the beginning of the flashback sequence of their first meeting in Columbia there is a shot of a Huey helicopter overflying a city. The footage is from the 1994 Tom Clancy movie Clear and Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford.

The idea of professional killers working for hit men agencies as portrayed in the film is pure fantasy. There is not enough such work in the world for firms of that size to be financially viable, or for that matter would such companies be able to maintain secrecy from law enforcement sufficient to stay in business. The attempt in the finale to kill John and Jane alone would cost tens of thousands of dollars. One assumes an element of parody was involved, but I don't think it quite worked.

The tactics used by the hit team aren't very bright. It would have made far more sense for them to simply blow the building up, light it on fire, or similarly try to kill John and Jane at a distance. Of course if they did that we wouldn't get that terrific gun battle.

Apparently no one bothers to look up at the sky in New York, or they would have noticed Jane and her office staff escaping their office complex when John comes calling.

How did John and Jane install their respective arsenals in their house without the other finding out? Especially Jane's James Bondish elevator-oven arms locker. Perhaps the duo spent a lot of time apart.

Vince Vaughn as John's hitman business partner/best friend seemed to be enjoying himself more than Jolie and Pitt, although his hitting on the cafe waitress kind of fell flat. The script could probably spent a bit more time mocking the values and behaviours of the Smiths' vacuous upper class neighbours.

That sentence probably should have read "Perhaps the duo spent enough time apart to install that stuff."

Wasn't this an action movie? I wasn't aware that it was a comedy.

Both. Though I thought that it was supposed to be more action.

I think this movie is a lot deeper than given credit for and here is my reasoning.

Every troubled marriage goes through certain stages. Denial, Closed Hostility, but then in the end times when the couple no longer holds back and honesty comes, the couple finally see each other for what they are, and if the couple like what they see, then they rekindle their marraige.

The only difference for the Smiths is that in the end, the choice is not whether or not to get divorced, but the choice is whether or not to blow each others brains out.

and this is different than some marriages how?

My wife and I rented it, we thought it was confusing.

All I can say is - I tried to watch this when it was on HBO. Very tiresome film. My divorce hearing was more entertaining.

Whenever I catch this film (usually surfing on cable), I always laugh at the banality of the elevator scene in the store.