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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Killers (2010; Genre: Action, Comedy, Romantic) Rating: 1 / 5 "Neither fun nor action""



Distributed by Lionsgate

Directed by Robert Luketic

Release date 4 June 2010

Running time 100 minutes

Language English



Brief Synopsis
Jen Kornfeldt (Katherince Heigl) has just recently broken up with his boyfriend and decides to go for a vacation with her parents. On the way to her hotel room, she meets a guy named Spencer (Ashton Kutcher). Then it cuts to the scene where Spencer as a spy is completing his tasks but before he managed to ask Jen out for dinner. Afterwards, both end up having a good holiday together and start to build up their relationships without Jen noticing that her soon coming husband in three years time is actually a spy that work with "bla bla bla" and given a license to "bla bla".

Three years later, Spencer is under a hit list with bounty of $20 million and afterwards the secret slowly evolving. Spencer will then try to run away and deal with those bounty hunter involving Jen which later in the scene announced that she is going to have a baby. Spencer regrettably keep his previous Job before marriage a secret and the drama emerge with happy ending.

Review
The great premise of the movie if executed well in high level of cinematic art by getting rid of the comedy element and starts moving towards hardcore cinematic art could have been a fantastic movie. However, fact did not say so. Killers is neither funny nor intense with the drama is not fully developed, action is flat and romantic is dull. Killers is just like another TV movie to waste your time.
Getting inside the movie,
Killers has a 45 minutes of nonsense, boring and flat character building. Fortunately, for the audience the action starts to emerge after a long 45 minutes waiting. Yet, it doesn't help in rebuilding the audiences interest about the movie as Killers story line flows flat to the end of it. Moreover, the characters of the movie is not very well executed. It might seems that Kutcher is better staying in drama genre rather than in action genre.

Comparing previous movie with the similar plot "Knight and Day" and "Date Night", Killers is far below than any of those two movies. Perhaps, if Killers was out first before any similar plot movie like K n D and Date Night, it could have received some interest in the audience. However, with all those similar plot flooding the cinema from beginning of 2010, I guess audiences has quite fed up with similar story line.


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