It’s a pain watching the same bland and boring movies. I’ve seen too many live action remakes and heard one too many Marvel-esque jokes. Mind you, I like Marvel, but it gets tiring. Then, my partner and I went to see a movie on Valentine’s Day. That is where “Love Hurts” came in. “Love Hurts” is a story about a real estate agent who is loved by everyone casually riding a bike to a work-related Valentine’s Day party. Quan’s character used to be a part of a loan shark group, but tried to go and get a normal life back. Turns out, that isn’t possible for him.
It is frankly a bit boring and not what I expected from Ke Hu Quan. But it makes sense considering that the main character is a real estate agent. It does set up Quan’s motivations well, along with conflict later in the movie.
After the Valentine’s Day party, the plot finally starts. It does do quite a bit of information dumping at the beginning through monologue and if it wasn’t Quan, I wouldn’t have cared for the information dump. Most of the movie was otherwise great. The plot is a little clunky and not very unique, but most action movie viewers aren’t there for the most plot intensive film.
Its combat scenes were amazing and well-choreographed. It was creative and honestly made me feel like a kid watching Jackie Chan movies. At one point, this movie was creative with using giant utensils as weapons in one of the real estate properties that Quan’s character was selling. You could tell that the choreographers and actors put their heart and soul into the combat.
Speaking of the actors, the casting was excellent. I could tell that they had fun with the movie but still worked hard. Their type cast was done wonderfully. The character costuming was also very well done. The outfits highlighted the character archetypes well and the outfits still made sense for their environment.
However, the CGI was off. It was unnerving and not implemented well. There was a scene in particular where the main characters had someone in the trunk of a car, and the car was clearly too small for the actor and it just looked uncanny.
The humor was good for the most part, some jokes didn’t land but humor is subjective. For example, some of the suspense that builds up in Quan’s storyline is that there are mustaches drawn on all of his real estate ads. There was plenty of comedy centered around one of the antagonist’s love life problems which I enjoyed. I also enjoyed some of the comedy that came from the violence. Additionally, I think that it was quite funny how the main antagonist loved boba to a ridiculous degree throughout the movie.
Overall, the ending was solid and decently sentimental for a comedy/action movie. I think it was a nice refresh for Hollywood since most of Hollywood is frankly stale releases. It was a pleasure seeing well known, established actors do well while bringing in new talent and new ideas.
