Review of Killers Starring Ashton Kutcher and Catherine Heigel

I went with my boyfriend and another couple to see the movie Killers this last Sunday. We had been talking for a couple of weeks about going to see the movie. From the trailer it looked like the perfect date movie. There's action and shooting with a sweet love story between two good looking people.

The movie starts with the main character, "Jen" Catherine Heigel and her parents Katherine O'Hara and Tom Selleck vacationing together in the French Rivera. The setting is really gorgeous and the film must have spent a lot of their production budget on just the location alone. The family is vacationing together because Jen has just been dumped by her boyfriend. The break up is due to Jen, a software salesperson, being too boring and she needs some change in her life. Conveniently, there is a hot single guy at the resort who runs around without a shirt and dives off of cliffs. The hot guy named "Spencer", played by Ashton Kutcher falls in love with Jen. She finds him exciting and he thinks that she's a normal girl that he would like to marry and "put down roots with". She doesn't know that he works for undercover for the CIA and so she agrees to marry him. They settle down in the suburbs and life is normal. So at this point, the movie has been playing for about an hour. No fight scenes or anything my boyfriend was interested in.

Three years into their marriage the real action starts. Spencer's old boss wants him to come back and work for him. When Spencer says no, then everything comes undone. All of their perfect suburban neighbors turn out to be trained assassins. Spencer has to come clean and tell Jen that he did work for the CIA and when he was in France, he was also supposed to kill her step dad, Selleck. Selleck is a spy as well and Jen didn't know this either. She decides that since she loves her husband so much that she decides to help him fight off the people trying to kill her and her husband. Selleck offers the assassins a large bounty to kill off Kutcher. Interestingly most of the "killers" are women. In this part of the movie there are a lot of car chases and graphic shootings. Jen struggles with trust issues with Spencer but in the end they have a beautiful baby boy and all is forgiven.

This movie is very predictable but it is entertaining. I don't think that Heigel or Kutcher should be expected to put out a serious or complex movie, they haven't done that before. When the movie was over, the group I was with all agreed that it was a "cute but predictable movie". There were also some comparisons between this movie and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie movie. I didn't see that one but my boyfriend thought that the action scenes and plot were more believable in the Bradgelina movie. Tom Selleck was very good in this movie and the interactions with him and Kutcher were my favorite scenes in the movies. I think that Kutcher and Selleck should do some kind of comedy together and leave Heigel out of it. Overall, this is an entertaining movie but I would have felt better if I had rented it and not paid $9.00 to see it in the theater.