Jonathan Eusebio
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John Wick re-popularized the genre…
If the silliness of "John Wick killed a dude with a pencil" was used as the basis of an action comedy, then you would have Love Hurts.
In the end “Love Hurts” feels like “John Wick” minus the style—and the dog and car.
Mate the mayhem of John Wick with the boogie of Quentin Tarantino and out pops an annoyingly quirky offspring.
If you’re aiming for a wild world of colorful killers, the John Wick series is beloved for a reason.
The title of John Wick and Chad Stahelski disciple Jonathan Eusebio’s action rom-com Love Hurts feels like a misnomer, or maybe a red herring.
Violent Night, Sisu, and Nobody have all proved that audiences will always root for the implausible badass with right on their side, and that’s true again in Love Hurts.
Nobody flanderized it…
If you’ve seen A History of Violence, John Wick or Nobody, the premise should be familiar to you: a mild-mannered man has the bliss of suburban life ripped asunder by the violent past he escaped rearing its bloodthirsty head.
…just like mild-mannered Bob Odenkirk in Nobody, turns out to have a secret violent past…
As in Nobody, the 2021 Leitch concoction starring Bob Odenkirk as an unassuming ex-hit man, a wolf comes in sheep’s clothing.
The presence of two recent Oscar recipients may be somewhat enticing, but it is more likely that fans of 87North’s surprise 2021 hit Nobody, which was also about an everyman who actually possessed lethal fighting skills, will be most intrigued by this similarly-themed film.
As one of four films released in February in honor of Valentine’s Day—“Companion” (2025), “Heart Eyes” (2025) and “Love Me” (2025)—and aim to celebrate the holiday with unexpected genre mashups that lead to heightened tension, “Love Hurts” just does not feel compelling since the stakes are virtually nonexistent.
My friend Vince just reviewed the slasher horror rom-com Heart Eyes and this time we’ve got a Valentine-themed thriller comedy Love Hurts.
It’s refreshing to see a sleek, canny, well-shot genre mashup now in theatres that’s predicated on Valentine’s Day violence, the surprising utility of a straw as a weapon and the climactic use of the dialogue “Love hurts.”
Too bad those complimentary descriptions above apply only to Heart Eyes and not to Love Hurts.
If you’re taking your sweetheart out on the 14th and you’ve seen this movie (or “Heart Eyes”) together, you might want to consider an upscale place where the drinks don’t invite their use, lest your date get the wrong idea.
…adding depth to his familiar style in Fall Guy…
…but in the Leitch-directed Bullet Train and The Fall Guy…
If The Fall Guy couldn’t get a nomination for its visual effects, then this one won’t be able to earlier.
Director Jonathan Eusebio, a talented fight coordinator with titles like The Fall Guy and Violent Night and assorted John Wicks to his credit, doesn’t give the action any spontaneity or grace or visceral pizzazz.
87North Productions, an action-heavy house founded by John Wick co-director David Leitch that has spawned plenty of sufficiently simple pleasures like Nobody, Day Shift, Violent Night and Leitch’s own The Fall Guy.
From 87North—producers of the groundbreaking action films Nobody, Violent Night, Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde, and The Fall Guy—comes a visceral, high-octane story of wrath and revenge.
…spiking a shallow gene pool of Pulp Fiction knockoffs with some kung-fu choreography…
Screenwriters Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard and Luke Passmore get too cute with the arrival of new Knuckles’ henchmen King (Marshawn “Beastmode” Lynch) and Otis (André Eriksen), who they tend to write like a modern-day Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction.
If you’re looking for a great, funny romance that stars an assassin, try Grosse Pointe Blank.
It’s Grosse Pointe Blank meets John Wick, with a dash of Jackie Chan chaos — or, at least, it tries to be.
Marvin resists his offer to return to the fold, a la A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE…
If you’ve seen A History of Violence, John Wick or Nobody, the premise should be familiar to you: a mild-mannered man has the bliss of suburban life ripped asunder by the violent past he escaped rearing its bloodthirsty head.
As one of four films released in February in honor of Valentine’s Day—“Companion” (2025), “Heart Eyes” (2025) and “Love Me” (2025)—and aim to celebrate the holiday with unexpected genre mashups that lead to heightened tension, “Love Hurts” just does not feel compelling since the stakes are virtually nonexistent.
ALSO: READ OUR REVIEW OF COMPANION HERE…
It’s like watching Armour of God or Wheels on Meals and then suddenly someone drops in a kill from the notoriously hyper-violent Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.
While “Love Hurts” never reaches the heights of a “Police Story” movie, it certainly captures that spirit.
It’s like watching Armour of God or Wheels on Meals and then suddenly someone drops in a kill from the notoriously hyper-violent Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.
“Reservoir Dogs” unleashed a crush of Quentin Tarantino copycats in the 1990s.
Whenever she appears on the screen, Eusebio succeeds at shouting out Blaxsploitation and seventies action films with their cool cars much like Quentin Tarantino did in “Jackie Brown” (1997), but Tarantino had a story and a star like Pam Grier that was strong enough to hold up the sumptuous visuals, so it did not feel like a Potemkin Village.
…one of the rare recent action comedies (sorry, “Argylle”) that doesn’t look like it was filmed entirely in front of a green screen.
…it feels as if it's the same length as the other DeBose failure, Argylle…
The actress’s chemistry works better here than in Argylle.
Oscar® winner Ariana DeBose; West Side Story, Argylle…
His talents might be better devoted to action carnage efforts like The Raid.
Atomic Blonde and The Equalizer capitalized on it…
From 87North—producers of the groundbreaking action films Nobody, Violent Night, Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde, and The Fall Guy—comes a visceral, high-octane story of wrath and revenge.
Atomic Blonde and The Equalizer capitalized on it…
…the conceit of an everyman plowing through goons like Rambo is inherently ridiculous…
King and Otis are spiritual kin of Tony Darvo and Joey from Martin Brest’s Midnight Run or even Rosewood and Taggart from Brest’s Beverly Hills Cop, with each pair’s barbs and jests playing just as well today as they did in the 1980s.
King and Otis are spiritual kin of Tony Darvo and Joey from Martin Brest’s Midnight Run or even Rosewood and Taggart from Brest’s Beverly Hills Cop, with each pair’s barbs and jests playing just as well today as they did in the 1980s.