Warren and K-Lo, I saw it. Pluses: Angelina Jolieโs astonishing looks, a scene in which she hangs drapes that is so unbelievably sexy itโs hard to describe, a final shootout inside an Ikea-like superstore and the hilarious Vince Vaughan. Minuses: Itโs a very peculiar effort to mix a romantic comedy about a marriage that needs a kick in the pants with the cartoonish superviolence of a movie like Lethal Weapon. The movie doesnโt really engage you. Itโs a comedy thatโs just not funny enough. Whatโs worse, Brad Pitt seems very bored (as compared to a very similar part in The Mexican, a poorly reviewed movie that was actually not so bad and in which he was sensationally good). Thereโs one genuinely disturbing moment here, when Pitt and Jolie get into an actual, physical fight and he slams his foot repeatedly into her torso. You donโt see the blow landing, and she then kicks him in the privates right after, but playing that kind of intimate abusive violence for laughs really isnโt right.
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