Killers Bluray

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Hildegard Swede says...

I watched it last night..twice. Lets just get the basic BAD's over with.

Catherine O'Hara - playing the drunk mom...yet again...Just like she did in Orange County. BUT..She pulls it off and is funny doing it. So it's not so bad.

Yes, it can be said it is similar to Mr and Mrs Smith. But in this story, only HE is the ex-hitman and she actually ends up doing pretty well (bumbling the whole way) but still keeps up with him, staying alive.

That's about all that I felt was bad.

Who is upset that they got to see Katherine Heigl in lingerie? Or girls, you got to see Ashton not only in swimwear, doing action scenes and he played a guy that no matter what, he just kept trying to do the right thing for his wife? His character is a GOOD guy.

Cameo's by supporting cast/comedians was a nice change of pace.

Deleted scenes, Extended scenes, Alternate scenes, Behind the scenes and a Gag reel - Are not bad. There was enough there to feel I spent my $$ ok and wasn't shorted much like many other Bluray films these days.

I feel the 3 star reviews and lower are just not fair.

4 stars in my review.

Posted on December 28, 2010

Gerry Penning says...

From my wife Sarah: An unsuspecting, nerdy and innocent but beautiful character played by Katherine Heigl and a government hit man played by Ashton Kutcher fall in love. Kutcher's character gives up the spy life to marry a woman he can trust, choosing a normal but blissful suburbian life. That is until Kutcher's handler tries to reactivate him three years later. Chaos insues in this fun and charming movie.



There are enough holes in the story to strain spagetti. If you try to think about it logically for even a moment you'll feel morally bound to hate this movie. Yet it was very entertaining. There was definitely some magic between Heigl and Kutcher, and though much of this movie was unbelievable, their relationship wasn't. Add to that some really good humor, action, a desperate situation, and the charisma, magnetism and attractiveness of the stars, and you've got a fun comedy/love story.



Catherine O'Hara can pretty much do no wrong in my book, and she was hilarious as Heigl's lush of a mom. Tom Selleck was great as her dad.



We were entertained all the way through, and found watching this movie to be a great way to relax and pass some time. I would certainly recommend this movie if that's something you're looking for.

Posted on December 29, 2010

Elijah Gartman says...

Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kutcher) action agent meets Jen Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl) neither is the type of person that he/she claim to be. Nevertheless, this is the time for Spencer to give up his life style and settle down. Three years of bliss and it looks like Spence's old job is catching up with him. Who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, and what is happening?



This film as well balanced and the characters are amusing without being too campy. Sure, you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure where the story is going. However, it is fun just the same watching it unfold and finding you saying, "Stay in the care." Lots of action, bullets and unabashed name recognition for "Maalox"



I only saw the Blu-ray version so I cannot compare to others. Do not for get to look at the Special features before re-watching the movie.

Posted on December 30, 2010

Refugio Gripp says...

I was disappointed that no media ever reviewed this movie while it was in theatres.It has an excellent cast and deserved at least a media review but because of Knight and Day it never received a review.



I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.It's got a great cast and like most fliks if you look beyond impossible circumstances it's great family entertainment.Since purchasing this I've watched it numerous times.It doesn't take itself serious and at times it's hilarious.



I highly recommend this movie for anyone who likes comedies or romantic comedies.

Posted on December 31, 2010

Marlin Vener says...

Ever feel like you were watching a film made of recycled parts? As if the film would say "Made from 100% recycled celluloid" at the bottom if studios didn't think being blatantly told they were watching a repackaged mix of past, better films would anger audiences. For those who are angered, obviously the solution is just to avoid something like Killers, but for the rest of the world, those who stumble across the cover on a shelf or in a Netflix queue and don't immediately discard it based on the faces of Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl as the draw, Killersgets to deliver a devastating combo of mediocrity and vanilla-flavored action with a swirl of romance designed to somehow please the testosterone-laden men and the estrogen-fueled women who simultaneously think to themselves "Wow, it's an action/romance flick I can watch with my girlfriend/boyfriend." It is, but you shouldn't have to sacrifice all remnants of taste and quality to find that film.



On a trip to Nice with her parents (Catherine O'Hara and Tom Selleck), Jen (Katherine Heigl) gets swept off her feet by the mysterious Spencer (Ashton), and a whirlwind romance leads to a quick marriage and a home in suburbia before anyone (especially the audience) has any idea that time has passed. The couple lives in bliss with Jen the top employee at an antivirus company and Spencer working as a contractor, his past as an assassin seemingly left cleanly in the past. However, with little to no surprise, we discover that Spencer can't just walk away from a job with the CIA and that virtually everyone he and Jen know are sleeper agents just waiting to strike when a bounty is finally posted. Now the married couple is evading shots from snipers, racing full-speed in car chases, and quibbling over the romance Jen thinks has left their relationship. Will Jen cope well with the sudden revelation that Spencer was once an assassin? Ultimately, they give us no reason to care.



The first ten minutes of the film do little but introduce us to Jen and Spencer, and by the time it's through all we know is that Jen is neurotic and insecure and Spencer just wants to have a normal life. That's a good starting place if you're going to keep developing characters from there, but Killers makes no further efforts at development and just has the characters bicker about the topics that any married couple would: having children, spending time together, etc. Every feint at efforts typical of a romantic comedy fail because the characters haven't received any time to establish themselves as anything other than two-dimensional stand-ups of a spoiled white girl and a suave guy capable of killing in cold blood, but not in the scary way that would make sense, but in the steamy, "I kill only because I love you, babe" kind of way. It's a toned down, romantic's version of an action movie that cares more about being a vehicle for its two stars than it does about being a comedy or an action flick. God forbid Heigl played it a little sillier or was ever out of control comically, and forget any chance of Kutcher having a role beyond the goofy but always self-confident ladies man. These two aren't acting; they're furthering their public personas in what could have been an action-based romantic comedy.



Otherwise, the film's impressively large supporting cast seems to have the right idea. O'Hara and Selleck perform with the right levels of wry wit and dryness for what the film was supposed to be. Then you have the neighborhood and Spencer's co-workers comprised of great character actors like Kevin Sussman, Lisa Ann Walter, Rob Riggle, Larry Joe Campbell, Martin Mull (though he hams his part up way too much), and Alex Borstein. They all outshine the two leads who barely have personalities at all.



Blu-ray Bonus Features



The offerings aren't too overwhelming with Lionsgate insisting on technical features like online interactivity as the main selling points. Otherwise there's a basic behind the scenes featurette, a gag reel (which isn't bad), and extra scenes.

Posted on January 1, 2011

Rosann Wiebers says...

If you keep in mind that this film is just a lighthearted romance spiced with a few cheap kills, you'll be fine with it. I noticed that someone compared it to North by Northwest. This film is actually more screwball comedy than a spy thriller. So, if you're seeking gritty espionage, stick with Jason Bourne. If you just want a few laughs without having to think too hard, you might just like Killers. It's a spy spoof -- have some fun with it. My biggest disappointment was that in the last ten minutes of the film, the heroine had to throw out the F word. Catherine O'Hara and Tom Selleck were fun, and Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl were cute. I enjoyed it.

Posted on January 2, 2011

Marlen Playl says...

Katherine Heigl's breasts and Ashton Kutcher's pecs are the real stars here, since they're by far the most appealing things in `Killers,' an almost entirely flat action-comedy. Katherine Heigl once again plays herself, the gorgeous-and-perfect-yet-not-gorgeous-and-perfect-enough-to-keep-a-boyfriend girl, this time named Jen Kornfeldt. What's unfortunate is that this time around, Heigl's usually persistently irresistible charm isn't enough to keep things afloat. Kutcher, meanwhile, makes an attempt to go for something different but ends up also utterly and completely playing himself (the occasionally lovable, occasionally obnoxious goofball who's altogether impossible to take seriously).



Jen is, for some inexplicable reason, on a vacation to Nice, France with her parents immediately following a not very thoroughly explained breakup. While there, she naturally happens to run into a well-toned and half-naked CIA agent who decides to romantically pursue her. Why Kutcher's character, Spencer, takes any interest at all in Heigl's, given her behavior upon meeting him, is dumbfounding.



Fast forward years later, and the two have married and settled into a slum of suburban tediousness, with Jen still blissfully unaware of her beau's history of assassinating and Spencer supposedly being done with all this killing brouhaha. Unlucky for him (or for the audience) the story continues when seemingly friendly members of his plucky neighborhood start trying to off him during block parties and business meetings. Jen of course then finds out that-gasp-she married a government spy, and we head into the same batch of silly nonsense the hundreds of other movies of this type offer.



In the likes of `Grey's Anatomy,' `Knocked Up' and '27 Dresses,' Katherine Heigl managed to miraculously break the ordinarily unconvincing pity-me pretty girl mold by playing genuinely relatable, sympathetic characters. She sadly fails here, in what is probably her first wholeheartedly bad movie; although `The Ugly Truth' had definite ups and downs and was widely panned by critics, it had far more heart and laughs than this miserably vanilla attempt at a romp. Almost none of the jokes click, and the movie never goes anywhere (literally and figuratively, in fact; minus the brief Nice sequence, almost the entire movie is confined to the small, stuffy suburb).



Ashton Kutcher is, as most people know, only selectively charming, but his trademark goofiness wears thin within seconds here, in spite of this movie's apparent attempt to portray him as suave. Catherine O'Hara is wasted as Jen's one-dimensional alcoholic mother, although ironically she offers most of the only legitimate funny moments in the movie.



`Killers' spirals into further depravity as the movie comes to a close with an endless slew of clich

Posted on January 3, 2011

Loida Klutz says...

This was a fun movie. I love both of the actors in it and it kept you guessing throughout. Cute!

Posted on January 4, 2011

Virgina Hele says...

Ashton Kutcher, with his vaguely pompous "I'm a Movie Star" persona is not one of my favorites, but he does a good turn as Spencer, the husband in this fluffy comedy, who used to "work for the blah-blah-blah" and "had a license to blah."



The appealing Katherine Heigl plays his lovestruck, innocent wife, "Jennifer, Jenny or Just Jen" who has married him over the stern but unspoken disapproval of her pathologically overprotective father, "Call me sir," played by Tom Selleck.



Spencer and Jen settle into wedded bliss for three years. Things go slightly awry when Spencer unexpectedly becomes the target of a black op. Suddenly, Spencer's Sunday football buddies, block party pals, business partners and best friends all emerge as contract killers.



Spencer is forced to flee with Jen, who, never suspecting her husband of hiding secrets is at first scared of guns. She then gets into a wifely snit of frightful proportions, making her more dangerous than Spencer; quickly becoming a certified tough chick (especially when her pregnancy test comes back positive) she adds a new dimension to the words "Domestic Violence". Hell hath no fury, boys and girls. In the end love triumphs.



This is a quick, light and funny film that will probably end up in the bargain bin soon, but it's well worth the laughs. Endearing and cute, Heigl powers this film with her wide-eyed innocence and righteous spousal outrage.

Posted on January 4, 2011

Loan Delgreco says...

Don't go into this movie expecting much.It's a funny, light hearted romantic comedy.I did like all the guest appearances, that was kind of fun (Usher working at Kmart, yeah right). If you like this genre of movie and want to be entertained by all means watch it.

Posted on January 4, 2011