Well actually, that's what happens, but you'll have to catch the movie to see how it all plays out.
This movie might have been the inspiration for another husband/wife assassination team some three decades later. In it's way, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was way over the top and mindless, but still a fun film to watch. In addition to being a gangster story, this one also comes across as something of a caper flick, what with the kidnapping of bank embezzler Filargi (Michael Lombard), and the hoops required to jump through on the part of Kathleen Turner's character. She's Irene Walker, the love interest of Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson), in a story that relies on it's share of coincidences before it all comes to a head. However if you're up on your Mafia protocol, the idea that Dominic Prizzi (Lee Richardson) would go over his father's head to take out a contract on Charley is somewhat dubious. Especially since Don Corrado Prizzi ((William Hickey) was about to make Charley the family boss, in itself a somewhat less than credible order of transition. But hey, it's just a story after all.
The one idea that holds fast in the movie is that blood is thicker than water, and when it comes time for Charley to decide which way he'll go when he's ordered to take out his new wife Irene, he's only conflicted about it for a little while. I have to admit, I was wondering how this was all going to play out, because the story has you going in a couple of different directions. I can't say that I was happy that Charley had such a good aim, but it did reinforce the notion that Mafia Families have their own code of honor. Just ask Fredo Corleone.
This movie might have been the inspiration for another husband/wife assassination team some three decades later. In it's way, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was way over the top and mindless, but still a fun film to watch. In addition to being a gangster story, this one also comes across as something of a caper flick, what with the kidnapping of bank embezzler Filargi (Michael Lombard), and the hoops required to jump through on the part of Kathleen Turner's character. She's Irene Walker, the love interest of Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson), in a story that relies on it's share of coincidences before it all comes to a head. However if you're up on your Mafia protocol, the idea that Dominic Prizzi (Lee Richardson) would go over his father's head to take out a contract on Charley is somewhat dubious. Especially since Don Corrado Prizzi ((William Hickey) was about to make Charley the family boss, in itself a somewhat less than credible order of transition. But hey, it's just a story after all.
The one idea that holds fast in the movie is that blood is thicker than water, and when it comes time for Charley to decide which way he'll go when he's ordered to take out his new wife Irene, he's only conflicted about it for a little while. I have to admit, I was wondering how this was all going to play out, because the story has you going in a couple of different directions. I can't say that I was happy that Charley had such a good aim, but it did reinforce the notion that Mafia Families have their own code of honor. Just ask Fredo Corleone.