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    ‘Love Hurts’ Evaluation: Ke Huy Quan’s Hollywood Comeback Takes a Hit

    David GroveBy David GroveFebruary 6, 20257 Mins Read
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    Ouch.

    Few current Hollywood success tales have felt as genuinely heart-warming as “The Goonies” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” star Ke Huy Quan‘s heralded return to appearing in 2023’s Finest Image winner “All the things All over the place All at As soon as.” Quan’s eventual awards run was the stuff of goals: Giddy reunions with Harrison Ford, unbelievable tales about his multi-faceted profession, beaming appearances in any respect the large occasions, all topped off together with his very personal Finest Supporting Actor win on the Oscars. Even higher? The position he gained for, because the soulful, striving Waymond Wang was a good one, a worthy one, a posh one.

    In order that Quan would turn into a sizzling commodity once more was each completely appropriate and fully anticipated. Who wouldn’t need to spend extra time with this star? And whereas the actor has loved constant work since his huge win, Jonathan Eusebio’s “Love Hurts” supplied the actor one thing new (and, we’re guessing, fairly interesting): his first main position. Too dangerous that nothing else in Eusebio’s first directorial outing is as much as snuff with Quan’s star energy.

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    The story itself — from a script written by Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard, and Luke Passmore — is intriguing sufficient. In “Love Hurts,” Quan performs Marvin Gable, a seemingly mild-mannered Milwaukee actual property agent who beforehand served as a stone-cold killer for his gangster brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu, toeing the road between scary and humorous in a approach the remainder of the movie can’t match). Marvin has given all that up, nevertheless, and now delights in a comparatively quiet life, largely spent baking cookies for open homes and bonding together with his boss (Quan’s “Goonies” co-star Sean Astin) and sarcastic assistant Ashley (Lio Tipton).

    Marvin is all about catchphrases. He loves his life! He “needs a house for you”! However all that good cheer and peppy perspective hides a darkness in Marvin, and when his brother’s outdated lawyer Rose (Ariana DeBose, definitely having extra enjoyable right here than in “Kraven the Hunter”) returns from the useless, he’s pressured to confront what meaning. (She makes her presence identified by sending out valentines to Marvin and her enemies, one among many makes an attempt to determine the movie as Valentine’s Day-centric that gives no materials worth past a capability to deck out its advertising with frills and sweet hearts.)

    The particulars of Rose and her demise aren’t so important — at the very least, they’re not dealt with that approach by the movie’s script, which appears to actively detest particulars and motivations of all stripes — however we’re meant to know that everybody positively thought she was useless due to a monetary crime she dedicated towards Knuckles, Marvin was believed to have finished it himself, and now she’s again … for revenge? Positive!

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    Ke Huy Quan as Marvin Gable in Love Hurts, directed by Jonathan Eusebio.
    ‘Love Hurts’Allen Fraser/Common Photos

    After all, this all complicates Marvin’s life, largely as a result of he additionally loves Rose (the pair have a pleasant, cute chemistry, however they don’t carry a lot romantic spark) and since his brother has dispatched a pack of his greatest baddies (together with Marshawn Lynch, Mustafa Shakir, Cam Gigandet, and André Eriksen) to convey the duo in to pay for his or her crimes. It’s a easy sufficient conceit, however one made persistently complicated by a definite lack of vitality, pleasure, and cohesive enhancing. By no means earlier than has 83 minutes felt so very lengthy.

    A seemingly tight funds retains the movie’s areas woefully restricted; we largely journey between cookie-cutter observe properties (Marvin’s personal, plus one he’s attempting to promote), Marvin and Ashley’s equally nameless workplace, and Knuckles’ lair (an intriguing, if finally complicated mash-up of video retailer and martial arts studio, which is simply ever inhabited by his goons). And whereas that will be forgivable — make do with what you’ve bought! — it’s indicative of a bigger, weirder downside.

    They by no means depart Milwaukee. No, no, to be clear: they by no means left Milwaukee. Sure, Marvin has struck out on his personal to construct an impartial life, freed from his brother and his violent crimes, intent on shaking off his previous as a contract killer, and but … he nonetheless lives in the identical small metropolis (I checked: Milwaukee has a inhabitants simply over half 1,000,000 folks) the place Knuckles and his crime syndicate rule with an iron fist. And an enormous a part of his id is tied up in his actual property work, which entails plastering his face throughout each advert he can afford. What precisely is the plan right here?

    Even weirder: Rose, who everybody believes is useless, has additionally been dwelling in Milwaukee this entire time, full along with her personal house and a bartending gig at a neighborhood dive. One among Knuckles’ many lackeys finally finds Rose by … going to her house constructing, the place her title is prominently displayed on her mailbox? Once more, isn’t this lady speculated to be useless?

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    (from left) Marvin Gable (Ke Huy Quan) and Rose Carlisle (Ariana DeBose) in Love Hurts, directed by Jonathan Eusebio.
    ‘Love Hurts’Allen Fraser/Common Photos

    It’s the form of senseless plot level that shouldn’t have made it into the script’s first draft, not to mention the ultimate movie. That and different wacky plot holes rankle and trouble, and since the remainder of the movie itself so incessantly fails to entertain, viewers members will seemingly discover themselves pondering these points and questions when, on the very least, they need to be distracted by butt-kicking motion. In case your motion movie starring a beloved Hollywood star that runs lower than 90 minutes largely seems like an train in iffy screenwriting, there’s one thing very mistaken right here.

    And the motion? Ah, properly. Even the extra intelligent sequences — an early battle that sees Lynch and Eriksen destroying Marvin’s kitchen (full with our star being tossed right into a fridge) is sort of good, however the huge last battles fall quick — are hampered by an over-reliance on bone-crunching sound design. None of it ever feels enjoyable, as a result of it sounds simply ugly. Nifty views — from contained in the fridge! from inside a microwave! — that will in any other case really feel snappy and thrilling, proof of Eusebio’s prodigious stunt abilities, as a substitute fall sufferer to foley design that largely appears to need to tickle our gag reflexes. I didn’t see a single damaged bone all through all the run of “Love Hurts,” however I positive heard dozens of them snap.

    The humor is simply as limp. Tipton and Shakir make off with the one purposely humorous subplot, as Ashley’s woe-is-me perspective finds an unlikely paramour in Shakir’s too-serious poet-killer act (as “The Raven,” the person throws feathers as weapons!). The wacky, wink-at-the-camera story they weave is a spotlight of the movie missing them, and nonetheless extra proof of how deeply “Love Hurts” lets down its amiable, open main man.

    This one? It hurts, and for all of the mistaken causes.

    Grade: C-

    Common Photos will launch “Love Hurts” in theaters on Friday, February 7.

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