Killers

Killers 2010
Director: Robert Luketic
Writers: Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin
Starring Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Hiegel, Tom Selleck, Catherine O’Hara, Rob Riggle and Martin Mull
I rented this one because I needed something to kill a few hours and it did that but not much else. The film is rather uninspired and is pretty much a bad rip off of a far better film, in this case it being Mr. and Mrs. Smith. That film the 2 leads had great chemistry together, whereas in this film the 2 leads are dead weights together. They really do not connect and they don’t make the story flow together too well either. The plot is pretty banal and the writing for the film does not help much either. The action sequences also seem sloppily put together. The only saving grace of the film I think is the performance by Tom Selleck, he does a great job with what he is left to work with. This film is basically a time waster and utterly forgettable.
The plot basics are this, Spencer Ames (Kutcher) is a undercover hitman for the government, but he meets Jen (Hiegel) during a mission and falls in love and decides right then and there to give up his profession and falls in love and marries her. Flash forward 3 years later and on hid 30th birthday Spencer gets a call from his old handler (Mull). It seems like he is getting pulled back into the business and he never told Jen about this. Not long after this he finds that he is the target of a multi million dollar contract on his life and he has to let Jen in on what he used to do and now she has to either stand by her man or cut herself loose from him.
This was at best a mediocre film. The direction by Lutekvic is haphazard at best. The action scenes seem rather clumsy and his character building scenes are just boring as hell to sit through. The script does not fare much better. You do not really sympathize with any of the main characters. The dynamics between the 2 leads just don’t work. It is just painful to sit through. The cast is not stellar either, both Kutcher and Hiegel seem very wooden in their performance. The only high point is the rather glib performance by Selleck in the film, he really makes his part worth watching. The action sequences are pretty humdrum, like the car chase scene which I have seen done far better in many other films. It just leaves a lot to be desired. The score by Rolfe Kent is very generic too and is really just a throwaway score and adds nothing to the film. All in all this is just a bad movie and really not worth much at all.
This one gets 2 out of 5