Married with Kills


Killer combination: Alpha male Pitt vs Uber Babe Jolie.

What would happen if Achilles took on Lara Croft?

Well, we may actually find out when the double-billed actioner Mr. and Mrs. Smith arrives in theaters. Starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, this flick from the director of the Bourne movies casts the two premier Hollywood sex symbols as man and wife- and also as the world's two deadliest professional assassins. The schtick is, they don't know that their spouse is a world-class contract killer... at least, not until they're ordered to eliminate each other.
Okay, this is probably my first guilty-pleasure film of the year. DAMN gorgeous Angelina Jolie playing a slinky femme fatale? I'm sold. This role looks to be a lot hotter than she ever was as videogame vixen Lara Croft, and she's a lot hotter here and showing a lot more skin (and both eyes) than in the Tomb Raider films or her outing in the flight of fancy flop, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

The action seems on the fantastic side of James Bond, with heavy firepower, hi-tech tricks and some down-and-dirty martial arts figuring into the couple's battle of the sexes. I'm not sure if the film's going to be played dead straight, tongue-in-cheek or if it's going to go with a generally humorous tone. The level of comedy and action of True Lies would be just right for this movie- anyway, it DOES also have a Tango sequence like the old Schwarzenegger spy flick.

I'm actually hoping they play it straight, almost a black comedy ala War of the Roses. It'll be interesting to see if either or both Pitt or Jolie actually bite the dust, but most probably we'll have a safe happy ending. We'll just have to wait till mid-year when Mr. and Mrs. Smith start their little spat. The movie arrives in US theaters in June 2005.