Killers
Metascore
21 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 22 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 19 out of 22
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  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Killers is dead on arrival: miscast, horribly paced and murderously uninvolving.
  2. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    38
    There’s nobody delivering the laughs in this arid action comedy.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Brian Miller
    30
    Dreary romcom-with-guns.
  4. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    30
    Take what pleasure you can from the two stars. They look great; it's just the state of romantic comedy that looks terminal.
  5. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    30
    Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin wrote the script, whose plummeting one-liners leave no actor unscathed.
  6. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    25
    Haven't we seen the oh-my-gosh-my-spouse-is-secretly-an-assassin-but-you-know-a-nice-one routine once too often?
  7. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    25
    At a certain point, it actually becomes embarrassing to watch Heigl and Kutcher play at being in love.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    25
    Just as I was beginning to hope that she’d (Heigl) find a part that called for intelligence and sophistication and backbone, she plays another uptight naif.
  9. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Stephen Cole
    25
    So here’s an idea: Maybe filmmakers should shoot what Ashton’s up to off-camera, because not many laughs are making it to the screen.
  10. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    25
    The steady drip-drip-drip of nothings like this are killing us all.
  11. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    25
    Killers isn’t an entertainment, it’s a high-speed spat.
  12. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    20
    An action comedy that nearly renders the term an oxymoron, Killers is devoid of suspense and laughs.
  13. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    20
    Robert Luketic's bland action comedy focuses on the uninteresting relationship between its two bland main characters, and that's the deadliest thing in sight.
  14. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: John P. McCarthy
    20
    After this bomb, Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher may qualify as two of the most attractive and prematurely washed-up screen actors Hollywood has ever produced.
  15. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    20
    Only the underplaying Selleck gets out of this with any dignity, while O’Hara is totally wasted as Jen’s one-note tippling mom.
  16. Tampa Bay Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Persall
    16
    Everybody's cyber-pal Ashton Kutcher is perfect casting for Killers, since the screenplay is shallow as a Tweet and the movie appears to have been shot with a Nikon point-and-click camera he plugs on TV.
  17. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    10
    Is it some monstrosity of awfulness, as its lack of advance screening suggested? No, that would imply at least a spark of some kind. This is just an empty summer hodgepodge of stale romantic comedy exchanges, witlessness and lackluster action.
  18. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    10
    Unless you’re trapped on an airplane or enjoying movie night at the penitentiary, you have no excuse for watching Killers. A brain-deadening collision of high concept and low standards.
  19. Variety
    Reviewed by: Rob Nelson
    10
    Bullets fly and jokes land with a thud in Killers, a deadly dull hubby's-a-hit man farce that alternately resembles a knockoff of 2005's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and a rehash of "Knight & Day" avant la lettre .

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User Score
3.7 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 81 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 26
  3. Negative: 15 out of 26
  1. grandpajoe6191
    3
    Absurd it is...the new summer action-romance movie "Killers" is just plain terrible. The script is crap as well as the action sequences (Its like parodying those Bourne or Bond films). Aston Kutcher also performed terribly (His worst one yet). Most of all, the movie just doesn't know where to point its gun at; action or comedy? Don't watch it, noobs.… Full Review »
  2. ChadS
    3
    Ashton Kutcher plays a killer, but not the "Psycho Killer" that's promised in the trailer. Unwilling to put his screen image at risk, Kutcher doesn't kill with a gun, or knife, or even with his bare hands. The ex-"That 70s Show" star leaves the nail guns and chainsaws for Christian Bale to handle. Spencer is a nice psycho. The nicest psycho in Nice. The contract killer merely pushes a button, causing the helicopter he rigged with explosives to blow up. No arterial spray, not even a drop of the red stuff is spilled. Blood would remind the moviegoer that the American girl on vacation(played by Katherine Heigl) just had lunch with a sociopath. Modeled loosely after 007, the former star of "Grey's Anatomy"(and future Shelley Long), ends up looking like a Bond girl of a lesser god. Presuming that she's not a superlative lip reader, daddy's girl(daddy is played by Tom Selleck) should have heard the midair detonation of the chopper. Perhaps it's bad editing, the moviegoer thinks, since there's no reaction shot(on her, or anybody's part) to the earsplitting blast. "Killers" just proceeds on to the next scene. The editor, not the screenwriter, helps keep the secret of Spencer's nefarious trade from the unsuspecting tourist. For sure, bad editing confuses the moviegoer, back on American soil at the now-married couple's suburban home, where a near-death experience in their garage becomes a mystery, because it's unclear as to who's doing the shooting: the man in the kitchen(a knife-wielding man), or the woman at the front door(a woman, as it turns out, was the only neighbor not trying to kill the Aimes unit). So where does the itchy trigger finger come from? Personally speaking, the bullet-riddled attempt on Spencer's life is practically extra-diegetic, a transmogrifying assailment from the moviegoer who wants a simple shot/reverse shot for the sake of clarity. If my aim was true, the chemistry-free pair(Kutcher and Heigl are no Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth) would be stopped, dead in their tracks, from riffing on Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 2", in which a delicate domestic matter starts to encroach on the protagonist's wild, wild life. "Killers" has an edge all right, a dull one. "Killers" is no "Grosse Point Blank". John Cusack played a character that had the conviction of a cold-blooded killer. It's a trait that Spencer needs to make his transformation into a pillar of the community mean something.… Full Review »
  3. Rikiege
    7
    A comedy full of breathtaking action.
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