My Cineworld card has been growing cobwebs lately, however I managed to squeeze in Killers, the latest rom-com. I'll keep it short and sweet, but basically if the main role was played by anyone other than Ashton Kutcher, it would have been a complete FLOP. It was enjoyable yet completely unbelievable throughout, until the ending which was so ridiculous even Ashtons abs couldn't save it. I think that if we handed the script over to Richard he would have smacked us over the face with how hideous and anti-climactic the ending actually was. Its amazing to see how many great scripts probably don't get made because of movies like these, and how much a film sells purely based on one mans six pack. I wasn't impressed with Katherine Heigl's performace, it was very weak and just, I repeat, completely unrealistic. It had a few laughs and I liked the distant similarity to The Truman Show, where all the killers were actually people planted in to their lives as best friends and neighbours etc, however they never played on this interesting concept. Overall, thumbs down for me.
Now that I'm getting to know the editing process, I wonder whether anyone ever wrote an anticlimactic ending like the one you describe, or whether they just stitched it up for whatever reason in post production.
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