Parents' Guide to Killers

The biggest mystery here is not how two perfectly appealing stars -- Heigl and Kutcher -- could have so little chemistry, but how a movie loaded with fast-paced sequences could be so tiresome. Clunky and curiously listless, despite a storyline thick with chase scenes and shootouts, Killers lugs forward from one plot point to the next with great effort -- not exactly what you look for in a romcom. There's nothing horribly wrong about it; there's just nothing impressive and right. The jokes are leaden, the gags tired. Even the villains are boring. When they show up, we're barely surprised.

Plus, Heigl's character, Jen, is off-putting to independent women everywhere. She appears all too willing to be infantilized -- her father insists she take a room on the same floor when they check into a hotel, and all she does is roll her eyes, like a teenager would. It's a sad state of affairs, really, because the supporting actors are fantastic. Catherine O'Hara, especially, is at her screwball best. And never mind about the ending: Confusing at most.