Starring:Ashton Kutcher(What Happens in Vegas, Personal Effects, Valentines Day)
Katherine Heigl(Knocked Up, 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth)
Directed by: Robert Luketic
Killers is an action/comedy film released by Lionsgate pictures. It has quite a list of producers - seven in fact - most notably Ashton Kutcher who stars as well.
Jen Kornfeldt is an overly cautious girl who breaks up with a boyfriend and travels to Nice with her parents to forget about the break-up. While there she meets Spencer Aimes, the man of her dreams, and they are happily married. Unfortunately the man of her dreams turns out to be a contract killer - retired- so the fun and games begin. Spencer becomes a wanted man with a price on his head ; how does Jen cope?
Ashton Kutcher is NOT one of my favourites by any long stretch of the imagination so I am always wary about his presence in any movie and I am afraid he missed out by a long shot on this movie. Katherine Heigl is generally quite a good actress but the material she was given was very stilted and formulaic in this particular case. The mother (Catherine O'Hara) was a bit of a hoot - otherwise an ordinary cast in an extremely ordinary film.
I give it two and a half stars out of five.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Centurion
Starring:Michael Fassbender(Hunger,Blood Creek,Inglourious Basterds)
Dominic West(Hannibal Rising,300, Punisher:War Zone)
Olga Kurylenko(Hitman, Max Payne,Quantum of Solace)
Director:Neil Marshall(Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Doomsday)
Centurion is an action film filmed in Scotland and Britain's Ealing studios in London and in Surrey. It is produced by Christian Colson and Robert Jones.
Quintus Dias is the only survivor of a raid by the picts, a fierce tribe whose tactics rival that of guerilla warfare. He is rescued by the legion of Titus Flavius Virilus who have been ordered in to wipe out the Picts for good. The plans go awry and the general is captured and all but six of the romans end up meeting a sorry end. Quintas and his bunch of followers try to regain the general but it is not always as it seems.
This could have been an interesting premise but I think it was overdone and some of the scenes quite graphic. The male leads were quite good (Fassbender and West) but Olga Kurylenko (as Etain) was a little stilted.
A bit more thought rather than the cinematic formula- I give it three stars out of five.
Dominic West(Hannibal Rising,300, Punisher:War Zone)
Olga Kurylenko(Hitman, Max Payne,Quantum of Solace)
Director:Neil Marshall(Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Doomsday)
Centurion is an action film filmed in Scotland and Britain's Ealing studios in London and in Surrey. It is produced by Christian Colson and Robert Jones.
Quintus Dias is the only survivor of a raid by the picts, a fierce tribe whose tactics rival that of guerilla warfare. He is rescued by the legion of Titus Flavius Virilus who have been ordered in to wipe out the Picts for good. The plans go awry and the general is captured and all but six of the romans end up meeting a sorry end. Quintas and his bunch of followers try to regain the general but it is not always as it seems.
This could have been an interesting premise but I think it was overdone and some of the scenes quite graphic. The male leads were quite good (Fassbender and West) but Olga Kurylenko (as Etain) was a little stilted.
A bit more thought rather than the cinematic formula- I give it three stars out of five.
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