"Excessive and Uninspired"

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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.
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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.