Directed by Robert Luketic
Playing at Hoyts, Rialto
(3/5)
Kutcher and Heigl are back at it again in a slightly younger and lamer version of Knight And Day. Most audiences are not buying that a Kutcher-type character would be into a 'young', Heigl-type. And let's face it, we learned how unfunny she was in Knocked Up, so hopefully this is the film that allows that lesson to sink in to full effect. But if you're a sucker for this kind of cheesy action rom-com hijinks, then I say go for it.
Jen (Heigl) vacations in France with her cool dad (Tom Selleck) and mother (Catherine O'Hara), as a way of recovering from a bad break up. She is wooed by the charming Spencer (Kutcher) and they become happily married. But after a few years of wedded bliss, Spencer's true identity as a spy is revealed. I think this is supposed to be like a metaphor about people who bring baggage into relationships or something. But the writers of Killers took that idea to an extreme, making Spencer's baggage people he has killed. The once happy couple is thrown into peril and turmoil, along with re-hashes of popular jokes from other successful rom-coms.
So I know what you're probably thinking: can they make it work? Not “can they make the film work?” that's beside the point, but can Jen and Spen' remain happily married? Will she have to get blood on her dainty, clumsy hands as suggested by the title: Killers? (note the plural.) To find out the answers you gotta get in the theater to see this mediocre, but somewhat entertaining film.
Killers
