MOVIE REVIEW - Killers

Action comedies are all the rage right now, and here comes another one, Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher in Killers.

It's the story of two young lovers Jen (Heigl) and Spencer (Kutcher). Jen is a very nice, naive, sheltered young woman, who falls in love with Spencer while on vacation with her parents in France. They get married and we flash forward three years as they are living a quiet life in the burbs, and all is well. Except for one little thing.

Spencer turns out to be an ex-CIA agent that has quit the agency and left it all behind. Jen has never known. Then as the agency decides he has too much information, they embed and turn loose a series of hit men and women to put a hit on him. And of course the joke turns out to be that Jen has NO idea and she must decide to go on this wild assassination ride with Spencer or not. That's Killers.

I always think that watching Katherine Heigl is very easy. Beautiful yes, but there's something comfortable about her that's very appealing. She's funny, and not afraid to look silly on camera and that's attractive. She's comfortable, so we're comfortable too. Her physical comedy is quite funny in past movies and at times here. She is lovely overall. But this is really NOT a Katherine Heigl movie. True she's in it, and funny and all that. But this is really more of an ensemble cast flick, with Kutcher taking the lead.

Great supporting cast with Tom Selleck and Catherine O'Hara as Jens wacky parents very well done. A real fun soundtrack at times reminiscent of the old secret agent movies too. Heigle and Kutcher have a nice chemistry at times and there are some fun moments in this movie. But to be fair, this movie always seems to be trying so hard, it struggles with a natural flow. It can't really decide what kind of movie it really wants to be, and that slows it down and times, and stunts it's growth. The basic idea is pretty good. But another re-write could have been in order here. And for heavens sake write some better dialogue for these actors to utter. Sometimes it is embarrassingly bad. I am envisioning the same idea, just executed a bit differently.

This is by no means a bad night at the movies. I think expectations will be high, and delivery for some will be low. Killers is going to let some fans down, and to be honest Killers in a year will be forgotten, unlike The Ugly Truth, or 27 Dresses other Heigl hits. Forgettable, is never a good thing.

Killers. Better idea than movie. Action comedy to look out for? Knight And Day in two weeks with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Killers can tide you over till then.