Home - Spotlight - Love Hurts. Alonso Duralde. February 6th, Among its many sins, this by-the-numbers action comedy thoroughly wastes the talents of recent honorees Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose. These elements all worked successfully in the past, but they fail to coalesce here, resulting in a film that defies you to care if good defeats evil or if boy reconnects with girl. Marvin Quan is a successful real-estate agent in a generic suburb, the kind of guy whose face is on seemingly every bus-stop bench in town.
The contrivances of the who-scammed-who mob plot would be forgivable if Love Hurts delivered on the fight front, but more often than not, the melees are predictable and un-thrilling, even with the spectacle of Quan taking on assailants that are twice his height. Director Jonathan Eusebio, who coordinated memorable fights in films like The Fall Guy and Black Panther , never manages to make these moments pop, although he does get in one memorable, Tati-esque visual gag involving Quan scaling a series of fences separating the tiny lawns of a row of ticky-tacky houses.
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