The Gist
Jen Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl), recently dumped, decides to go on vacation to France with her parents as planned. There she meets Spencer Aimes, superspy killer and man of her dreams. After asking Jen out on a date, Spencer realizes he wants out of killing people for a living. The next day, when his boss tries to contact him, Spencer tells him that he’s quitting. Three years later Jen and Spencer are happily married with normal jobs and a perfect life. The day before Jen is scheduled to go on a business trip, Spencer gets a message from his old boss. His boss tells him that Spencer’s old job wasn’t something you could quit. Once an agent always an agent. And if Spencer didn’t come back to his old job, then he’d become the enemy. And people would be sent to kill him. But Spencer doesn’t want to believe him, so instead he ignores him. The next day, Jen goes off to her business trip, but halfway there, she realizes that spending time with her husband on his birthday was more important than going to work. So she turns back around. Meanwhile, back at the house, Spencer’s “best friend” tries to kill him. Because there’s a twenty million dollar bounty on his head. When Jen gets home she’s shocked to find her husband being attacked by (and attacking) his best friend. There, she learns the truth about the man she married and has to tag along as he tries to figure out why everyone is trying to kill him. Surviving all of the killers isn’t the hard part. Jen has to find a way to forgive her husband for his disloyalty and get past all of their deferences along the way.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
You know what I think? This movie stunk. Completely. To begin, writing the gist was kind of hard because I could hardly come up with even a scrap of plot to work with! And you know what? I realized that while Katherine Heigl seems to be in a lot of movies, none of those movies are at all memorable. They’re all just kind of there, with her performance being good, but nothing special. This movie was no exception.The only reason I watched it at all was because there was nothing else on onDemand that either I hadn’t already seen, or was PG-13 or under. I thought (at the time) that it might be an okay movie. You know, not those knock-your-socks-off kind, but the hey-that-wasn’t-too-bad! kind. But anyways, I was utterly disappointed. Like I said before, one of the more obvious flaws of this movie was it’s lack of plot. There really was nothing. They killed a bunch of people, they almost got killed by a bunch of people, there were lots of guns and even more ammo and of course the stupid I-don’t-even-know-you-anymore fighting between the marvelous main married couple. Then all of the sudden the movie was over and I was watching the credits roll. What!? So that alone earns it at least a C-. But no. Then the characters had to go and be annoyingly predictable. They transformed from this loving, perfect couple to two people who couldn’t stand each other. Then they began switching back and forth randomly. Sometimes they were lovey-dovey. Next moment they were arguing. I could have handled it once or twice but after the fourth stupid argument I was bored and really sick of it. I mean come on! You’re married! You must have gotten married for a reason, right? SO STOP FIGHTING! I kept thinking that. But no matter how angrily my mind screamed it, the characters on the screen continued to bicker. Finally, the ending was just all-around bad. It wasn’t memorable. The movie ended and I thought, Oh. It’s over. Okay. Bad thing to have in your mind at the end of a movie. That is destined to make a not-so-nice review…viola! Overall, the acting wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t any work of genius either. It was a movie that wasn’t worth seeing a first time, so if you see it on onDemand, or Netflix or movie rental store just ignore it. I think it was a movie that should just be ignored.
Real Teen Rating~ D- : I wouldn’t bother at all
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