Date Watched: 06/23/10
Original Ranking: #21 out of 26
Nic says:
If I had read the script for this movie before hearing anything about it, I might have liked it. In fact, as a book, I could see it working. However, when it comes to casting a smooth and successful CIA (or was it FBI?) operative, my first choice would not be Ashton Kutcher. To be fair, maybe it wasn’t the casting director’s first choice either, but I think I’d scrap the movie before placing the guy that’s best known for That 70’s Show and marrying Demi Moore. Secondly, when it comes to casting a bumbling and clumsy loser that is on vacation with her parents, who in their right mind thinks of Katherine Heigl?
This movie would have worked for me if they had cut out the opening scenes in Nice, France (we don’t need to see 15 minutes where our characters meet, date, fall in love, and are now married 3 years later) and maybe exchange it with the background on Tom Selleck’s character. We never did find out why he was being targeted. Lastly, I would definitely change the name of this movie. “Killers” gave me the impression that Kutcher and Heigl were a team of hired killers. The movie might have been more aptly named “Sleepers”. Not only because I almost fell asleep watching it, but because the sleeper assassins are what the “Killers” title is actually referring to in the first place.
Amy says:
I totally agree with Nic’s review and am not sure I have much to add. There are funny moments, but it was not really worth the price of admission to see the movie.
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