A mix of action and comedy

MANILA, Philippines - Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play a new couple who are targeted by killers in the movie Killers. It’s like another version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It’s also a comedy and full of action; only this time, the couple is together in keeping themselves from getting killed, unlike in Smith where the couple try to kill each other as assassins, after they both discover their partner’s secret profession.

In Killers, Heigl’s character, Jen Kornfeldt, an IT specialist, doesn’t have a clue to what she’s getting into when she enters a whirlwind relationship with Kutcher’s Spencer Aimes, a clandestine operations government hitman. All seems well from the start and Jen is happy to find the man of her dreams after going through a bad breakup. Jen and Spencer wed, but bliss is short-lived. Soon, they realize everyone they know around them, including neighbors and friends, are really assassins out to kill them.

So that’s the problem that Jen and Spencer have to solve. But apart from trying not to get killed, they have a marriage to save and how they manage to keep things from falling apart as the world around them crumbles is the fun part in the movie. Not everyone may find Kutcher or Heigl seriously convincing. Viewers may have gotten used to seeing them in other contexts — Kutcher in Punk’d episodes and Heigl in Grey’s Anatomy. Also, Killers isn’t supposed to be your serious movie where you expect characters to emerge totally different from the actors. Kutcher is still Kutcher and Heigl is still Heigl. What really matters is the situation they are in.

Killers, opening in theaters on June 4, is directed by Robert Luketic and written originally by Bob DeRosa. The final screenplay was rewritten by Ted Griffin. It also stars Tom Selleck and Catherine O’Hara.