Day 154: "How weird is this going to get? Because some things you cannot unsee."

As run of the mill as you can get these days, Killers is as vanilla as the ice cream on your apple pie.  The most interesting thing in the first 20 minutes of this movie is the Ferrari California that the main character drives through Nice, France.  Just a completely unbelievable (really, I didn't believe any of it for a second) mess early on, Killers eventually catches its stride in the last half hour.  I really wasn't convinced nor did I care about the boring suburban life the two main characters tried to convey, and once the shooting and action started, it was too late for me to get emotionally involved at all.  It seemed like the filmmakers got together, couldn't figure out what story they wanted to tell, watched True Lies, liked it, then hired a couple of film students to write their own version.

Ashton Kutcher portrays the sexy assassin Spencer Aimes (the names in this were dead giveaways to characters' personalities and jobs too), a man who decides to quit after one last job, and falls in love with Jen Kornfeldt (see what I mean), played by Katherine Heigl.  I have to admit, they are a good looking couple, but, damn, what I would have given for some chemistry on-screen.  They both just looked awkward trying to pull of domestic tranquility.  Tom Selleck, Catherine O'Hara (who was funny as hell), Alex Borstein, and Martin Mull fill the remaining mediocre roles.

Beginning as a mess, ending with mediocre action sequences, and containing completely unbelievable characters, Killers isn't the worst way to kill an hour and a half, but invest the full two hours into True Lies and you won't even remember Killers as an option.  5.25/10.

See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!