Killers
We may be heaping praise on The Kids Are All Right in our search to find the best movie of 2010 but in the hunt for the worst movie of 2010 it's Killers that's not fairing too well.
Yes Katherine Heigl, who really has made some awful movies of late, teams up with Ashton Kutcher to churn out another stinker - what does she think when she is reading these scripts?
Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women.
But when he meets Jen Kornfeldt, a beautiful, fun-loving computer tech recovering from a bad break-up, he finds true love and happily trades international intrigue for domestic bliss.
Three years later, Spencer and Jen are still enjoying a picture-perfect marriage... that is, until the morning after Spencer's 30th birthday.
That's when Spencer and Jen learn he's the target of a multi-million dollar hit. Even worse, the hired killers have been stalking the happy couple for years, and could be anyone: friends, neighbours, the grocery store clerk, even that crabby old guy shuffling across the street.
Sadly for Killers it tries to be funny, it tries to be action packed and it tries to be cool but it manages to achieve none of the above, the very lovely Ashton Kutcher is the only real plus point.
It just feels like a thrown together movie with a poor script and awful dialogue, you really have to wonder what Kutcher and Heigl saw when they read the screenplay - clearly something that we are not!
Kutcher doesn’t really pull off the suave, sophisticated spy while it’s the same old same old from Heigl; she really needs to try something different as it is getting a little tiresome.
Director Robert Luketic has had a bad run of things in recent years, he was the filmmaker responsible for bringing us The Ugly Truth - enough said.
Killers doesn't feel like there is any real direction to it and Luketic just threw together an bunch of scenes in a hope that it made some sort of sense.
It’s the type of movie that we have seen a hundred times before but it just lacks life and spirit and really is a major disappointment.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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