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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 : 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.