The Killers

Katherine Heigl and director Robert Luketic reunite in the supposed romantic, dramatic comedy/moonlighting action thriller, aptly titled, Killers. If that description is any indication of how muddled the identity of this movie is, it's not a coincidence. The pairing of these two stars would suggest that the producers of the film were going for a Rom-Com, but the trailers give a different impression (The one trailer with shirtless Ashton Kutcher, is probably one of the top marketing tools that they devised to lure in their intended demographic).

A lot of negative things have been said about the chemistry between Heigl and Kutcher in the movie, but something about it to me seemed right in the early scenes of the movie shot in Nice, France. Heigl's character, Jen Kornfeldt's, awkwardness combined with her stunning beauty and the charm of Kutcher's character, Spencer Aimes, was a welcome enough beginning to the film for this guy. But, very unrealistically three years have passed and Jen and Spencer are very happily married and set up in the suburbs with a gorgeous home and fantastic jobs. Sooner than later though the bubble of bliss surrounding the newlywed couple starts to burst, in the form of Rob Riggle (Who many saw as Officer Franklin, in the Hangover, from last summer) whose character a co-worker of Spencer going rogue and suddenly attempting to murder him to attain the $10 million bounty on his head. A not too thrilling car chase scene follows this development and I, like most, started to lose a good amount of interest. There really are too many far-fetched twists and turns and implausible happenings that have this movie on a fast track to becoming forgotten as quickly as Amanda Bynes' announcement to retire (But if you've seen some of the pics she's posted on Twitter, I'm likely to be mistaken).

I didn't have the opportunity yet to see, The Ugly Truth, but the box office success of that film is most obviously the reason that director and star were paired together again for another release this summer. Unfortunately, this product isn't going to reach the numbers that were set by Luketic's 2009 film, and even sadder still the opinion of this one will most likely be less favorable then it's predecessor.