Movie Review: Killers, PG, 102 min by Genevieve Loh When your movie review is given a worldwide embargo date of the film's US opening, your antennae goes up immediately. Sure, the film, with its too-long-drawn first act, is clearly not in a hurry to tell a story, mostly due to the simple fact there is none. Both script and premise reek of a Mr And Mrs Smith meets True Lies knock-off, but director Robert Luketic (of the universally panned The Ugly Truth) delivers a film that doesn't take itself too seriously. Or maybe Heigl didn't annoy me as much as she did in The Ugly Truth.
– The makers of Killers, the new rom-com with Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher, didn't let critics screen it. Always a great sign. From the few reviews out there: Geoff Berkshire, Metromix: "Utterly unconvincing as action, comedy or romance, it’s a colossal waste of time and a shocking choice for Heigl at this point in her career." Drew McWeeny, HitFix: "This is not a terrible, terrible, terrible movie. One terrible will probably get the job done." Genevieve Loh, TodayOnline: "Strangely, you're somewhat entertained, thanks to just-enough sporadic laugh-out-loud scenes juxtaposed with high gun action. Couple that with Heigl and Kutcher's anti-chemistry (she's his Beavis to his Butthead), and you'll surprise yourself by being not entirely bored." Lee Smith, WLTX-TV: "The comedy comes on strong in the beginning but tends to peter out. The action is heavy, in spurts, but seldomly exciting."