Thursday, June 10, 2010

Killers: Rebound

Official Site:killersfilm.com
Director(s): Robert Luketic
Writer(s): Bob DeRosa,Ted Griffin,
Producer(s): Scott Aversano, Jason Goldberg, Mike Karz, Ashton Kutcher, Chad Marting, Christopher S. Pratt, Josie Rosen.

Starring:Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck, Catherine O'Hara, Rob Riggle(IMDb).

It all happened in Nice, France in the elevator. Jen(Heigl) saw Spencer(Kutcher) with his shirt off, and she was hypnotized by his brand of testosterone. Jen did not intend on going to the beach, but being enamored by Spencer's impeccable abs and strong chest, she was compelled to follow him there, even though she was not adorned in proper beach fashion. Chit chat and flirting lead to dinner and a nightclub. Three years later, Jen and Spencer are married, but after an old colleague contacted Spencer, it triggered a series of wild events which obligated Spencer to reveal details about his past to his wife.

Kutcher and Heigl are an adorable on screen couple, and seeing more of them would be nice, but as an actress, it would be great to see Heigl branch out a little bit. She's talented, and she has enough fire in her to perform drama. In any event, although platitudinous, Killers was entertaining, and rather well explained. The plot was lucid for the most part. But one character, the mother in law ,had a habit that had no historical explanation, but the habit made the character, evidently flawed, but amusing.

As a romantic comedy, Killers also had action. This kind of romantic comedy was bearable mainly because there was some action to appeal to my brute male fascination for seeing things blow up. Action romantic comedies could be a market to experience expansion. Films like this may lure more males who typically loathe sitting through chick flicks. According to rottentomatoes the film earned 8 fresh tomatoes to 55 rotten ones, granting it one the worst scores I have seen yet. Entertaining but not unprecedented, I'll grade it a 75. Stay tuned movieporium.blogspot.com.







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