“Mr. & Mrs. Smith” doesn’t receive its rating simply because it is a bad movie but because it marks a terrible plague that has infected cinema (and wider society). It was only made to cash-in on the fact some people care about the real-life relationship of its stars. It seems the script was removed and a camera merely appears to be following the couple during their normal life in-between the mindless action sequences.

In “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, Angelina Jolie (“Wanted”) and Brad Pitt (“Fight Club”) play rival assassins married together but neither is aware of the other’s real job. When they both are sent on the same mission, they try to take each other out but then realise they need to work together to beat their agencies that set them up.

The stars sit there looking very disinterested and appear as if they would rather be watching a cooking tv show than having a role in this film. The conversations they have are boring. The only real reason the two were cast is because they are married in real-life, which I don’t care about in the slightest. The pair never come across as plausible assassins in the movie because they just look bored all the time.

I can think of the kind of people who would love this film but those aren’t the kind of people I would like to have anything to do with. It’s a sad state when cinema has been overrun neither with a thirst for creativity nor a desire for talent but simply a wish to see some celebrities onscreen together. We are forced to sit through several tedious and ridiculous action scenes that lack any form of fun followed by some of the dullest conversation put to film, I have seriously heard more interesting things at a barber shop.