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Ke Huy Quan and Ariana debose to the former affiliates of a Crook outfit. The frames do not fly exactly.
By Ben Kenigsberg
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In “Love Hurts”, Ke Huy Quan plays a cheerful real estate agent and eating cookies that he has tried for beyond life as a murderer. La Debose, who plays a former business spouse who emerges from the shadows and reminds him of what he left behind, in a film that makes the most productive to suppress all the memories of the recent winner of the two Oscar stars.
“Love Hurts” is the debut as director of Jonathan Eusebio, who has accumulated a list of chords of acrobatics and combat chords (“John Wick”, “The Matrix Resurrections”). In fact, he also plays that role here, because there is not much otherwise to achieve: the plot is a thread slightly: there are slightly random incidents designed to shape action scenes in which they quan, banning the entire idea of its Own knowledge of the “The Goonies” game, demonstrates an impressive configuration for martial arts. The scriptwriters, the screenwriters, meanwhile, locate tactics in the arm Fantastic objects: sharp pencil here, amethyst there. Boba straws are really acute.
The casting is effective, in part because few would guess that Quan would show such balletic grace in hand-to-hand combat, even though he has a background in stunts from the aughts. DeBose eventually steps up as an action star, too, albeit without quite as much sparring. (She generally seems to have more munitions on hand.) But somebody should have built them more of a movie to play in. At 83 minutes, “Love Hurts” falls somewhere between making a virtue of brevity and wheezing its way to the finish line.
No sooner has Quan’s Marvin Gable (his name sounds distractingly like Marvin Gaye throughout) entered his office for the day than the Raven (Mustafa Shakir), a fellow assassin from the old days hiding there, smacks him in the face. It’s Valentine’s Day at the agency, and while everyone else — including Marvin’s dour assistant (Lio Tipton) — is doing their best to be festive, Marvin, behind a closed door, is fending off a killer who has a coat full of knives and a book of original poetry. His verses suggest an emo high schooler imitating Robert Frost.
The raven needs to know where Rose (Debose) is, who Marvin’s Ouvrière ankle brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu) had long ordered death. Knuckles Idea Rose had died, but in later years she took over selling Valentine’s Day cards. She is also Marvin’s secret love, and what a drama there are activities to know if he will profess his ardor, and if, as he is increasingly bloody, he will manage to maintain his new life and his prestige as “genuine regional genuine real estate agent of the year”.
The chemistry between Debose and Quan is non -existent, but it tells slightly: the emphasis is on the injury, in love. But this own use film leaves a brand slightly.
Love HurtsRated R. Love, lies, bleeding. Running time: 1 hour 23 minutes. In theaters.
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