Jason KingKillers (3/10)
July 29th 2010 05:57
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Fail
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I had been so keen to see this film since I first heard about. I really enjoy Katherine Heigl in romantic comedies and I like Ashton for a few reasons, one of which is his acting 
Pity this film falls flat on pretty much everything it offers. Fail!!
Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women. But when he meets Jen Kornfeldt, a beautiful, fun-loving computer tech recovering from a bad break-up, he finds true love...and happily trades international intrigue for domestic bliss. Three years later, Spencer and Jen are still enjoying a picture-perfect marriage - that is, until the morning after Spencer's 30th birthday. That's when Spencer and Jen learn he's the target of a multi-million dollar hit. Even worse, the hired killers have been stalking the happy couple for years, and could be anyone: friends, neighbors, the grocery store clerk, even that crabby old guy shuffling across the street. Now Spencer and Jen are on the run for their lives. As their suburban paradise turns into a paranoid game of dodge-the-bullet, they must find out who wants Spencer dead and why, all the while trying to save their marriage, manage his in-laws, keep up neighborly appearances ... and just plain survive.
Killers is very similar to Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's very recent Knight and Day but fails to meet up or hold its entertainment where Knight and Day succeeded. Both Kutcher and Heigl are masters at romcom, Ashton can do action, or pretty much anything he is motivated to do, but seems to cruise in easy roles. Heigl could do the same but seems to have been pigeonholed into romcom only. They both look amazing but fail to pull this off. The script is flat and the film has numerous fun moments but the parts that string it together make you want to go to sleep.
You have seen everything in this movie before and done way better. There is absolutely nothing original except for the level of stupidity in the script and plot. In the end I was laughing at the film. The comedy is the same as you have seen in every Heigl film and Kutcher feels way out of place. To me, he still looks young and has maintained his youth. Heigl, while stunning, looks like an older woman and while it may work for Kutcher in real life it doesn't work well in the film. Their chemistry is non existent.
The biggest fail of this movie is one lame ass climax. I was expecting more to happen to finish off the story and make it wrap up nicely but instead I got the credits, which to me was probably a godsend anyways. Seriously, Heigl's character must be the most stupid person in the entire world - SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH - to marry a guy who is a spy and not know for three years to then find out every single friend and neighbour is an assassin and then to find out your dad is also a spy and not a pilot was just stupid! "Insert forehead slaps here:"
Tom Selleck and that marvellous moustache also make an appearance, as Heigl's character's father. And then there was my favourite part of the film, ok besides Ashton shirtless, Catherine O'Hara as the mother. In every single scene she is drinking the hugest or multiple drinks and cruises the whole film as the pissed mother, I just loved her.
It may sound like it but the film is not woeful, just a repeat of other films. Try a TV version comedic Mr and Mrs Smith It should have gone straight to DVD but people assume Heigl and Kutcher and Kutcher's body will equal big bucks, hmmmpppphhh, they are probably right. Shame - the film is out today and worth 3 out of 10.
Pity this film falls flat on pretty much everything it offers. Fail!!
Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women. But when he meets Jen Kornfeldt, a beautiful, fun-loving computer tech recovering from a bad break-up, he finds true love...and happily trades international intrigue for domestic bliss. Three years later, Spencer and Jen are still enjoying a picture-perfect marriage - that is, until the morning after Spencer's 30th birthday. That's when Spencer and Jen learn he's the target of a multi-million dollar hit. Even worse, the hired killers have been stalking the happy couple for years, and could be anyone: friends, neighbors, the grocery store clerk, even that crabby old guy shuffling across the street. Now Spencer and Jen are on the run for their lives. As their suburban paradise turns into a paranoid game of dodge-the-bullet, they must find out who wants Spencer dead and why, all the while trying to save their marriage, manage his in-laws, keep up neighborly appearances ... and just plain survive.
Killers is very similar to Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's very recent Knight and Day but fails to meet up or hold its entertainment where Knight and Day succeeded. Both Kutcher and Heigl are masters at romcom, Ashton can do action, or pretty much anything he is motivated to do, but seems to cruise in easy roles. Heigl could do the same but seems to have been pigeonholed into romcom only. They both look amazing but fail to pull this off. The script is flat and the film has numerous fun moments but the parts that string it together make you want to go to sleep.
You have seen everything in this movie before and done way better. There is absolutely nothing original except for the level of stupidity in the script and plot. In the end I was laughing at the film. The comedy is the same as you have seen in every Heigl film and Kutcher feels way out of place. To me, he still looks young and has maintained his youth. Heigl, while stunning, looks like an older woman and while it may work for Kutcher in real life it doesn't work well in the film. Their chemistry is non existent.
The biggest fail of this movie is one lame ass climax. I was expecting more to happen to finish off the story and make it wrap up nicely but instead I got the credits, which to me was probably a godsend anyways. Seriously, Heigl's character must be the most stupid person in the entire world - SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH - to marry a guy who is a spy and not know for three years to then find out every single friend and neighbour is an assassin and then to find out your dad is also a spy and not a pilot was just stupid! "Insert forehead slaps here:"
Tom Selleck and that marvellous moustache also make an appearance, as Heigl's character's father. And then there was my favourite part of the film, ok besides Ashton shirtless, Catherine O'Hara as the mother. In every single scene she is drinking the hugest or multiple drinks and cruises the whole film as the pissed mother, I just loved her.
It may sound like it but the film is not woeful, just a repeat of other films. Try a TV version comedic Mr and Mrs Smith
It should have gone straight to DVD but people assume Heigl and Kutcher and Kutcher's body will equal big bucks, hmmmpppphhh, they are probably right. Shame - the film is out today and worth 3 out of 10.| 99 |
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And the car scenes in this were so fake - I forgot to mention how much that annoyed me