LOVE HURTS

Name: LOVE HURTS
Item: LOVE HURTS
Author: Review

"Excessive and Uninspired"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

LOVE HURTS stars recent Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan, the little boy helping Indiana Jones in TEMPLE OF DOOM. Quan plays Marv, a former hitman for his older criminal brother, who’s left his past by working as a real estate agent in Milwaukee. However, Marv sees his past resurface when the young woman he was supposed to kill for his psychotic brother decides to return and challenge Marv’s brother, Knuckles. A flashback shows that the woman, Rose, stole $4 million, but Marv didn’t kill her because he loves her.

LOVE HURTS has exciting, flashy fight scenes with amazing martial arts stunts, but otherwise it’s average pulp fiction and has lots of strong foul language and some excessively brutal violence. Ever since Quentin Tarantino made RESVERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION in the 1990s, every crime thriller with lots of action has required constant “f” words. However, like LOVE HURTS, the plots and dialogue in most of those crime thrillers leave a lot to be desired. The content in LOVE HURTS is excessive and ultimately uninspired. However, there’s brief talk about absolution and second chances.

Content:

(PaPa, C, B, LLL, VVV, S, A, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong pagan, slightly mixed worldview set in a criminal world where a hitman is trying to turn his life around, but his criminal bother and the woman he loves drag him back into that world, and he must defend himself and the woman from the evil brother and his henchmen and assassins, and a criminal thief wants to kill both the former hitman and the woman to keep a secret hidden from the evil brother, and the former hitman’s real estate boss says he believes in absolution and second chances;

Foul Language:

97 obscenities (about 73 “f” words), five GD profanities, one light profanity;

Violence:

Some very strong violence with some blood such as man’s left hand is stabbed with a knife that goes all the way through, some pointblank shootings such as character shot in the head, and the hole the bullet made is shown, and a character is shot pointblank in the stomach with a shotgun, man stabbed in eyeball with a straw made of steal, and people’s body and head are hurtfully slammed into objects and walls and counter, plus lots of strong violence such as lots of sometimes brutal martial arts fighting with many punches and kicks (some of this is filmed like a dance, which fits in the tradition of martial arts movies from the past), people hit with other sharp objects, people wield knives and meat cleavers and a baseball bat in some of the fighting, and a man shows signs of having been tortured with cuts in his face and two teeth knocked out;

Sex:

No sex scenes, but there’s a scene set in a strip club where the women are wearing bikinis at the time;

Nudity:

No explicit nudity, but women in strip club wear bikinis in a scene filmed in a strip club;

Alcohol Use:

Brief alcohol use, and young woman works in a saloon where people are consuming alcohol;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

The plot concerns $4 million in stolen money and who stole it, there’s some lying, and man’s older brother is a vicious gangster who wants to run everyone’s life, including the man’s.

More Detail:

LOVE HURTS stars recent Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan, the little boy helping Indiana Jones in TEMPLE OF DOOM, as Marv, a former hitman for his older criminal brother, who’s left his past behind by working as a real estate agent, but Marv sees his past resurface when the young woman he was supposed to kill for his psychotic brother decides to return and challenge Marv’s brother, Knuckles. LOVE HURTS has some exciting, flashy fight scenes with some amazing martial arts stunts, but otherwise it’s average pulp fiction and has constant foul language and some excessively brutal violence.

As the movie opens, some mysterious woman is drawing moustaches on all of real estate agent Marv’s public ads around Milwaukee. Meanwhile, Marv is trying to sell his most recent properties while getting a special real estate award from his downhome country boss, Cliff. The award makes Marv feel like he’s finally arrived, even through he rides a bicycle to work.

However, when Marv enters his office, he finds an assassin named The Raven waiting for him. The Raven demands to know where Rose is. When Marv lies, saying she’s dead, The Raven doesn’t believe him. So, he starts beating on Marv to force him to say where Rose is.

Marv eventually knocks the assassin unconscious or dead, even though the Raven stabbed Marv’s left hand with one of his trademark knives. Meanwhile, outside his office, Marv’s assistant, Ashley, thinks she hears something strange coming from Marv’s office, but Marv manages to keep the door locked.

After exiting his office, Marv, with his wounded hand hidden under his jacket, asks his boss, Cliff, to borrow his car, and Cliff agrees. Marv tries to find out what’s happening with Rose. He learns that the missing Rose has returned to the city and sent Valentine’s Day cards to his brother and his brother’s new henchman, who replaced Marv, saying she’s coming after them.

A flashback reveals that Marv’s brother, Knuckles, sent Marv to kill Rose, but Marv didn’t kill her and let her go, because he loves her. The brother had put a hit out on Rose because she stole $4 million from him. However, Rose has decided running away didn’t work for her, so she’s returned a year or two later. Also, since Marv used to wear a moustache as his brother’s assassin, she’s been drawing moustaches on his picture all over town.

Now, Marv’s brother has been sending people to capture Marv and Rose and bring them to him. They refuse to comply. Also, there’s a fly in the ointment. Rose had a partner inside the outfit who helped her steal the money. Rose’s partner is not about to capture her alive. He wants to kill her so that his part in taking the stolen money remains a secret.

LOVE HURTS has some exciting, flashy fight scenes with some amazing martial arts stunts, but otherwise it’s average pulp fiction and has constant foul language and some excessively brutal violence. Ever since Quentin Tarantino made RESVERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION in the 1990s, every crime thriller with lots of action has required constant “f” words. However, like LOVE HURTS, the plots and dialogue in most of those crime thrillers leave a lot to be desired.

The content in LOVE HURTS is excessive and ultimately uninspired. However, there’s brief talk about absolution and second chances.