Take 2: Love Hurts

Take Two: Love Hurts

Quick synopsis: Another film from the A Long Kiss Goodnight/ Bourne Identity playbook, but with a twist. Unlike other movies of this type, it’s not amnesia that thrusts the main character into the mundane, but a desire to break away from the violent (and man, I do mean VIOLENT) profession he was once in. Here we have Marvin Gable (Ke Huy Quan) currently working in real estate but in dragged kicking in screaming back into his old life by love interest Rose (Ariana DeBose), a slew of hitmen and Marvin’s kingpin brother.

The good: The fight scenes and there A LOT. No surprise, Quan plays humble everyman really well but what might be surprising is how natural he is in the fight choreography. It’s very natural. There are moments where it was like watching a young Jackie Chan. At one point, he’s downright scary even. And it makes sense, he was pretty scrappy waaaaaaay back in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to, so it’s probably fair to assume, his had his share of martial arts training and it shows.

There was also a fun/odd love story between one of Marvin’s coworkers and a poetic assassin but even that seems a little odd in comparison to the rest of the movie.  

But that’s about it. One of the biggest selling points for me was that it has a runtime of about 88 minutes. Unfortunately, a lot ofcould have been fleshed out with more time. Rose for example, is a character who is a little odd for no apparent reason and more time devoted to her could help explain why. It really just felt like the movie didn’t have enough time to really go anywhere.

Was I entertained? Yes. Did I love it? Not especially.

My score: 6.5

Alright, that about does it for this time. Until next week when I review…. Whatever the heck I feel like seeing…