Killers
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck,
Catherine O'Hara, Rob Riggle, Kevin Sussman, Martin Mull,
Katheryn Winnick
Rating: (M)
Ashton Kutcher would not be my first pick to play a dashing
super-spy but in Killers (Rialto and Hoyts) his slacker
persona is the least of it.
Spencer Aimes (Kutcher) is starting to feel jaded in his
calling. On assignment in Nice he meets Jen (Katherine
Heigl), a careful suburbanite, and her cosy charm seems
exotic to him.
In no time flat he has given up his specialist trade, married
Jen and retreated to the safety of the suburbs.
Then, for no particular reason, after three years of domestic
bliss Spencer's status seems to have been reactivated and an
endless gallery of people are out to kill him.
Just as in Knight and Day the concept of the master spy
coming up against the modern woman is supposed to be
instantly hilarious. Spies are all stand there, hold this,
shot that and once upon a time women were meekly supposed to
comply.
The new woman is more lippy but scarcely more believable.
She shrieks a bit, calls him out for lying to her, then gets
in touch with her own inner spy, becoming a full-fledged
accomplice.
The actors involved in this piffle do surprisingly well at
animating the silliness, but are undone by a script that
makes no sense and is just not funny enough for it not to
matter.
Best thing: Tom Selleck's moustache makes a welcome
return.
Worst thing: Is there a shortage of joke-writers in
Hollywood? This desperately needed some.
See it with: An unholy fetish for pretty-boy Kutcher.
Otherwise, don't you know there is a film festival on?
- By Christine Powley
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