Killers (2010)
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 92
Dull, formulaic, and chemistry-free, Killers is an action/comedy that's largely bereft of thrills or laughs.
Average Rating: 2.5/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 20
Dull, formulaic, and chemistry-free, Killers is an action/comedy that's largely bereft of thrills or laughs.
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Three years after settling down with the woman of his dreams, a former government assassin discovers there's a price tag on his head, and that his number could be up at any minute. Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kucher) was the man the government called on when they needed someone taken out on the sly. Fast, clean, and efficient, he always got the job done, and enjoyed the many perks that came with traveling the globe in search of his targets. But somewhere amidst all of the fast cars and exotic women,
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Cast
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Ashton Kutcher
Spencer Aimes -
Katherine Heigl
Jen Kornfeldt -
Tom Selleck
Mr. Kornfeldt -
Catherine O'Hara
Mrs. Kornfeldt -
Katheryn Winnick
Vivian -
Kevin Sussman
Mac Bailey -
Lisa Ann Walter
Olivia Brooks -
Casey Wilson
Kristen -
Rob Riggle
Henry -
Martin Mull
Holbrook -
Alex Borstein
Lily Bailey -
Usher Raymond
Kevin the Manager -
Letoya Luckett
Amanda -
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Larry Joe Campbell
Pete Denham -
Mary Birdsong
Jackie Vallero -
Ric Reitz
Dougie Vallero -
John Atwood
Don Nootbar -
Bruce Taylor
Mr. Stafford -
Sharan Mansfield
Mildred -
Anna Coldwell
Pretty Girl -
Adeline Gorgos
Gorgeous Blonde -
Ariel Winter
Sadie -
Jean-Charles Fonti
Jean Paul -
Nazareth Agopian
Jaspar Leveneux -
Christophe Carotenuto
Leveneux's Adjutant -
Blandine Bury
Leveneux's Mistress -
Ghislain Carosio
Courier -
Michel Bellier
Maitre D' -
David Marchal
Waiter -
Pascal Trhoof
Guard -
David Mitnick
Gagged Man -
Winston Story
Eurocreep -
Lauren Glazier
Stewardess -
George Duskin
Trap Shooter
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All Critics (103) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (93) | DVD (8)
It's pretty much dead in the water as soon as a shirtless Kutcher tries to play suave and utters some terrible French in his first attempt to woo his co-star.
Top CriticKutcher and Heigl are unable to bring any warmth to what is at heart a bitter, cynical script. Just awful.
This should be and could be a really fun and entertaining, silly movie and it isn't.
Killers is a lifeless romantic action comedy that might as well have been concocted in a broken beaker, given the paucity of chemistry between the lead actors.
There is a potentially rich satirical situation there, as everyone in the couple's dull planned community turn out to be undercover killers. But whatever germ of an idea there is, it's quickly killed by witless writing and migraine-inducing direction.
For someone so classically handsome, Kutcher is surprisingly anticharismatic as a star. A smarmy grin and looking good while shirtless does not equal screen presence, dude.
A ridiculous and lifeless comedy, "The Killers" is trite and easily-forgettable.
Robert Luketic's "Killers" takes a worn out premise and somehow manages to make it feel even more tired than before.
A fluffy but harmless action comedy.
Everything has a thrown-together feel, as the characters are tossed from romcom situations to action set-pieces and back again with no thought to applying any sort of grace notes to ease the transition.
Robert Luketic's latest flick is a palette cleanser -- a flavourless sorbet if you will -- guaranteed to scrape the flavor of any recent enjoyable film from your sensory memory.
Bland spy rom-com mines violence, stereotypes for laughs.
Worth the investment for the cinematic capture of the Southern France backdrops, as well as the badinage between Heigl and Kutcher reminiscent of those classic Doris Day-Rock Hudson exchanges in flicks like Send Me No Flowers. Send Me No Hit Men!
A boobs 'n biceps fluffy espionage burb romance, helped in no small part by a host of unlikely everyday unneighborly assassins. Though a homicidal Kutcher, recently caught with his pants down as a conniving baby-faced gigolo in Spread, is another matter.
Perhaps some future social scientist will explain why the traditional romantic comedy transformed during the first decade of the 21st century into the screwball action-comedy, in which bonds of love are strengthened by gunplay, car chases and explosions.
Neither action nor romance, Killers will please all those who see it for Kutcher, disappoint those in search of a story.
I was tested by Killers' gaping lack of a single distinguishing characteristic.
The murderously boring Killers firmly belongs in the dregs of the ever increasing number of rom-com-action movies.
A concept masquerading as a full blown movie, in which the story is undercooked but the delivery is overdone
The storyline and script lack credibility, but more than that, Robert Luketic's direction misses the light, crisp fun the situations require, leaving us saddled with a questionable tone in Nowhereland
Heigl and Kutcher's romance has about as much crackle as a bowl of soggy Rice Bubbles.
Far from the knock out we hope for.
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Audience Reviews for Killers
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- Jen Kornfeldt: Really? You wanna poke mama bear right now, that seems like a *good* idea?
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- Jen Kornfeldt: How weird is this going to get? Because some things you cannot unsee.
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Foreign Titles
- Kiss & Kill (DE)
- Kiss & Kill (FR)
