Good start, but then it gets ruined

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Best movie ever!

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Tina Fey was wonderful. The best thing I can say about Steve Correl was Steve Corell.

The movie starts out showing us Tina and Steve as a typical NJ couple with a boring life. Once a week they have a date night where they go out to the same restaurant and order the same food. For entertainment they "guess" what the story is, or mini-biography behind other couples eating at the restaurant. perhaps one of the better scenes with these two. They are also once-a-weekers in the bedroom. When their neighbors get divorced because they were in a similar rut, Steve re-examines their routine and decides to do something different by going to a different restaurant. Then, in a case of mistaken identity, they get hunted down by two rouge cops working for the mob.There are some great scenes such as the bit role by Mila Kunis, and the taxi cab scene. There are also some scenes that didn't play well such as serious scenes between Steve and Tina as they discuss their life. Neither Carell or Fey pull those scenes off very well.The comedy is good, but not constant. The attempt to make it into some kind of romantic comedy was bad.

In order to try and spice up their marriage, Phil and Claire Foster decide to go on a date night at a trendy restaurant in Manhattan. When they arrive at the restaurant, there are no tables spare so they decide to assume the identities of another couple who had booked, but failed to show up at the restaurant. This leads to a case of mistaken identity and forces the Fosters into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a mobster whom is trying to track down a flash drive that has been stolen from him.Date Night has an OK premise and sets itself up reasonably well; the Fosters live fairly stereotypical monotonous lives of your average bored married couple and also have friends who are in the same boat. It's a believable foundation to build the story on, but somehow Date Night loses its way after about the first 20 minutes...Once the Fosters are mistaken for the other couple then it starts to become a chase picture, but sadly like the Fosters marriage it is dull and lacking any sort of spark. Director Shawn Levy does a reasonable job in moving things along and the film had enough chaotic set-pieces to just about hold my attention, but there are few, if any, genuinely amusing moments. Wahlberg answers the door on about 4 occasions with no shirt on and each time he is asked to "Put on a shirt" - this wasn't particularly funny the first time, but to have this joke repeated on multiple occasions showed a real lack of imagination and was just plain lazy. Looking at this picture it's also hard not to be disappointed by the waste of acting talent on offer here; the likes of Wahlberg, Kunis, Fichtner, Liotta and Franco are all in this picture, but their performances all feel phoned in here (particularly Fichtner and Liotta who just don't seem interested at all).What makes the film partly work are the strong performances from Carell and Fey; Carell plays the same nerdy-gawky type that he always plays, but again he does it to good effect here bringing a sort of nervous charm and likability to the role. Fey is also good in her respective role as both the timid housewife at the start, but she shows that she's got a more ballsy side later in the picture.This isn't a funny film and normally with a film as poor as this I would rate it with a lower score. However, I've given this film a 4 out of 10 because, despite how bad the film is, I did think that Carell and Fey were excellent and believable in their respective roles. There aren't enough good points for me to be able to recommend Date Night, but I'm prepared to give credit to Carell and Fey for trying their best to make this film work.

Reading the reviews of "Date Night" here, it's obvious that people either loved or hated it. Put me in the plus column. Sure, what happens to the Fosters (Steve Carrel and Tina Fey) when they use assumed names to score a table in a glitzy restaurant turns out to be dangerous. Maybe even lethal. But this is a comedy, not a slice of life -- and the couple's misadventures as they avoid hit men, crooked cops and their own mistakes is thoroughly entertaining. There's just enough wordplay and action -- headed by a zany car chase through the streets of downtown New York -- to keep things perking. If you want logic, look elsewhere. But I'm happy to settle for some good laughs.