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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.
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.
Maybe filmmakers should shoot what Ashton's up to off-camera, because not many laughs are making it to the screen.
Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin wrote the script, whose plummeting one-liners leave no actor unscathed.
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.
full review at Movies for the Masses
It's trying to be funny and it's trying to be cool but Killers doesn't quite get there.
A bloated mess that's not remotely funny -- or suspenseful.
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