2005 · action · comedy · drama
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Directed by Doug Liman2h 0m2005
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.
Our read: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · comedy · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- funny
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