Valentines 2025 brought an excuse for the action packed love story, Love Hurts.
Now we all know that love hurts, but that seems to be only when it's for the wrong person, luckily I seem to have found the right one (fingers crossed!). So Jamie and I happily went off to see how love was gunna hurt Ke Huy Quan and I have to say it was very entertaining.
I love Ke Huy Quan, not from the Indiana Jones movies as I still haven't watched any of them accept the new one... Jamie tried when it was on at the B&B in Whitby but I went to sleep! I love him from The Goonies and Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. I am so pleased he's having his resurgence and despite this film not doing so well at the box office, we really enjoyed it.
Quan plays Marvin Gable, an estate agent with a dodgy past. We see him in his element, the loveable man from the office handing out valentines cookies. Until he gets a note from the woman he loved, a woman who he was told to kill by his mobster brother when she stole over a million dollars from him.
Hitmen then come to beat him up to find her, she finds him too and it's all go from there my friends, a Jackie Chan type fight sequence ensues and I loved every minute.
The movie itself was a bit cheesy and I'm not going to lie, it wasn't massively plot heavy, it was just a bunch of funny one liners and action scenes, but with a romantic overtone and I quite liked that. The acting from everyone was soft and believable, and overall it was just a fun movie.
There was a contract killer who writes poetry about death and falls in love with Marvin's depressed PA, she is then dragged into the world of killers and tries to keep the peace. Sean Austin plays the cowboy boss who treats Marvin like a brother and then is murdered by the other Gable brother with a Boba straw through the eye. Marvin still tries to sell the house he's using as a safe house even though it's been shredded by bullets. It's ridiculous, but well done.
So with that in mind I'm giving Love Hurts a 7/10. My enjoyment over a lighthearted action movie far outweighs the plot points and rushed storyline but I really think it was worth it. Sure it's decent background noise too, but it was worth the full attention as everyone needs some romantic, comedic violence now and then (in a non reality sense).
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