CINEMA NEWS – At first glance, a thin, bespectacled and norm-following average guy who always stops at stop signs and pays his VAT on time, is actually a retired killer and former lord of the underworld, the protagonist of Love Hurts. Our everyday hero switches back into destructive mode when he receives a telling message on Valentine’s Day: “Hiding is not real life”. From this he knows that the past has returned, he is being hunted again, and he must do something about it.
Love Hurts stars Oscar-winning Ke Huy Quan (Everything, Everywhere, Always), who you’d think would be a mouthful of milk, but once he’s done with the first few marauders, it turns out that his innocent exterior is a deadly killing machine. The Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor initially found it strange to be offered the role, but once the concept was explained to him, he was happy to take the opportunity. “This movie is proof that Hollywood understands that you have to break the status quo and shake the audience out of their usual rut,” Quan told Collider. “I don’t look like Dwayne Johnson, I don’t have big biceps, but that’s what I like about my character. “A truly depraved person – in both the good and bad sense of the word – doesn’t have to be that way. No one should immediately guess who they really are – that’s what makes them special.” The film was directed by Jonathan Eusebio, who went from stunt coordinator to director in the same way as David Leitch, who made a splash with the John Wick films. Last year, he crowned his work with The Stuntman, which perfectly blends the worlds of fast-paced action films and romantic comedies studded with witty dialogues. Love Hurts is of course produced by Leitch’s production company, 87North.
(Love Hurts – domestic release: February 6, 2025.)
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