Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
At a certain point, it actually becomes embarrassing to watch Heigl and Kutcher play at being in love.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out New York
For someone so classically handsome, Kutcher is surprisingly anticharismatic as a star. A smarmy grin and looking good while shirtless does not equal screen presence, dude.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
There is a potentially rich satirical situation there, as everyone in the couple's dull planned community turn out to be undercover killers. But whatever germ of an idea there is, it's quickly killed by witless writing and migraine-inducing direction.

Name : Boyd van Hoeij / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The characters' online connection allows the filmmakers, who here move away from the slasher genre to something approaching psychological horror, to explore violence as a mindset.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The audience is the real victim.

Name : Stephen Cole / Alias : Globe and Mail
Maybe filmmakers should shoot what Ashton's up to off-camera, because not many laughs are making it to the screen.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Haven't we seen the oh-my-gosh-my-spouse-is-secretly-an-assassin-but-you-know-a-nice-one routine once too often?

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
Killers leaves Heigl and Kutcher to bicker over issues of trust and betrayal; being in danger causes more problems in their marriage than it resolves. Killers isn't an entertainment, it's a high-speed spat.

Name : Rob Nelson / Alias : Variety
Bullets fly and jokes land with a thud.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Kutcher and Heigl are unable to bring any warmth to what is at heart a bitter, cynical script. Just awful.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : At the Movies
This should be and could be a really fun and entertaining, silly movie and it isn't.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
Bungled rather than flat-out terrible.

Name : Jason Anderson / Alias : Toronto Star
It's pretty much dead in the water as soon as a shirtless Kutcher tries to play suave and utters some terrible French in his first attempt to woo his co-star.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
There's nobody delivering the laughs in this arid action comedy.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
A brain-deadening collision of high concept and low standards.

Name : Brian Miller / Alias : L.A. Weekly
If you count the number of hairstyles Katherine Heigl wears in this dreary romcom-with-guns, the tally is likely to be four or five. Ashton Kutcher's facial expressions, one.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
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.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
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.

Name : Rob Nelson / Alias : Variety
"Killers" has plenty to offer genre fans - provided they don't bolt during its opening scene of a tied-up woman being beaten to death with a mallet .

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin wrote the script, whose plummeting one-liners leave no actor unscathed.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Killers is a lifeless romantic action comedy that might as well have been concocted in a broken beaker, given the paucity of chemistry between the lead actors.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Newsday
The mismatch isn't quite of Justin Bieber-Charlize Theron proportions, but Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play an oddly disjointed pair of lovers, partners and reluctant assassins in Killers.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
The screenplay has pages I imagine remain only half-filled. Not long after Heigl and Kutcher meet in an elevator, they share this exchange. She: "Huh-huh." He: "Huh." She: "Huuuuuh." This is the language of love for two people coming out of a coma.

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Don't tell me I'm making too much out of nothing, because the steady drip-drip-drip of nothings like this are killing us all.

Name : Stephen Hunter / Alias : Washington Post
Daredevil doesn't take a single dare.

Name : Ricardo Baca / Alias : Denver Post
A well-crafted introductory course.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying.

Name : Geoff Pevere / Alias : Toronto Star
Even in February, it feels like the worst movie of the year.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Completely devoid of subtlety or sense, the film is a series of bad scenes connected by empty characters, most of whom seem like leftovers from scripts abandoned long ago.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : Slate
Kind of lousy.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
One of the biggest misfires in its genre since Godzilla.

Name : Jay Boyar / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
The action almost never stops, which is both Daredevil's biggest asset and its greatest shortcoming.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
After sundry Batmans and last summer's Spider-Man, the comic-book formula of childhood loss, filial revenge, and freakish physical prowess doesn't seem all that fresh anymore.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Ebert & Roeper
Daredevil has electric energy, a wickedly dark sense of humor, some ingenious fight scenes and that high-powered cast.

Name : Mark Rahner / Alias : Seattle Times
Marvel's on a roll.

Name : Mike Clark / Alias : USA Today
There'll be plenty of ragging to go around once audiences get a dose of the dullest live-action comic strip on record, one that lacks even an interesting villain.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Daredevil isn't laugh-out -loud lousy, it's something worse: deeply, depressingly average.

Name : John Powers / Alias : L.A. Weekly
The movie has far less emotional weight than, say, Spider-Man.

Name : David Ansen / Alias : Newsweek
Torn between moody grandiosity and cartoonish mayhem, Daredevil tries to have it both ways, and succeeds at neither.

Name : Bruce Westbrook / Alias : Houston Chronicle
The best Marvel movie to date.

Name : Ed Park / Alias : Village Voice
The numerous fight scenes have been filmed in Confuse-o-Rama, a headache-inducing technique that mixes a dozen too many cuts per minute, projectile P.O.V., and intermittent glimpses of the hero's sonar sensorium.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
[A] dull actioner.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
A pretender in the realm of bona fide superheroes.

Name : Bruce Newman / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
With the appearance in movie theaters of Daredevil, we have now officially arrived at the bottom of the comic-book pile.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A collection of false starts interrupted by an awful lot of angst-ridden contemplation, the picture serves up soul-searching gush with scant pulse-pounding rush.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
Convincing in the physical demands of the role, Affleck persuades us of the pain of sightlessness and supersensitive hearing, although writer/director Johnson's scrappy construction fails him and everyone else as the showdown approaches.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
Too hollow and pedestrian to dramatize the conflict between its hero's vigilante streak and his moral straits imaginatively.