Uber cool Brad Pitt and ultra sexy Angelina Jolie star as professional killers in this action comedy inspired by The War of the Roses and True Lies.
On screen (and off?) the pair are fakes, that is to say they take on aliases to cover their tracks. After being set up, each of the couple discovers he/she has been living with a killer for five or six years; still neither lose his/her cool, make up or hairdo.
On paper, the plot and cast must have sounded like a winning combo. On screen, however, the sum of the parts is little more than a nicely-packaged farce that strains to entertain for 120 minutes.
Fresh and fun; forgettable and silly, the chemistry between Pitt and Jolie is the film's main asset and their rumored romance off screen was nothing if not a brilliant marketing coup.

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Chief editor: Steven Crane
August 2005 issue



Guanzhou Chief editor: Christopher Cottrell
August 2005 issue