Killers
An odd one this. A romantic comedy with several actions scenes and moments of surprisingly strong violence for a 12A. It's certainly no great entry in the pantheon of cinema, but it is harmless fun that works best with your brain in a low gear. Heigl is as charming and sweet as ever, and Kutcher, for the most part, works as a suave spy who genuinely loves his wife and wants to get out of the game.
The film starts to lose momentum once the action kicks in, the romance taking a back seat to the stunts and shooting in some slightly overlong set pieces. There's nothing to worry James Cameron here, but for a rom-com with assassins they do the trick. It's certainly better than anything in that other hit man comedy "The Whole Nine Yards". It's in the ending that things go too far when (Spoiler alert) we find out why all the killers are after Kutcher int he first place. His character that is, we're not looking at a mass celebrity revenge for Punk'd. If you think hard enough about it, it does make a kind of sense, but that still requires a few massive leaps of faith and logic. Surely the person behind it all would have given instructions not to harm a certain other person in the line of duty. (end of spoilers)
If the summer heat is getting too much for you, or in a year's time this pops up in the TV schedule, it's worth a look. Just don't set you expectations too high, and send your brain on a 90min vacation
2.5/5
