But with “Love Hurts,” 87North has gone farther south than ever, churning out a muddled, mean-spirited action comedy that manages to feel slack and listless despite a flyweight run time of only 83 minutes.

Love Hurts—starring Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose and Marshawn Lynch—is new in theaters. How do critics feel about the action comedy?

"Love Hurts" is a short and sweet punch-em-up movie with plenty of extravagant, over-the-top displays that add up to a simple good time. Don't overthink it. Just have fun.

Ke Huy Quan has said Steven Spielberg influenced his decision to accept this role, and David Fear of Rolling Stone agrees Quan deserves a chance to showcase his skills in a leading role, but this “lazy action flick” isn’t it. Love may hurt, Fear says, but not as much as watching a great actor stuck in a bad movie. The critic continues:

Ke Huy Quan plays a happy-go-lucky real estate agent whose past life as a hitman comes back to haunt him in "Love Hurts."

Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose make for a feeble one-two punch in Love Hurts, a lamely comedic beat-’em-up from the production company, 87North, responsible for the John Wick franchise. Jonathan Eusebio’s film is a goof like 2021’s Bob Odenkirk-headlined Nobody in that it puts non-action stars through the slam-bang ringer,

LENGTH 1:23 WHERE Area theaters BOTTOM LINE Oscar winner Quan returns in an iffy but passable action comedy. Has there ever been a more lovable Hollywood underdog than Ke Huy Quan? As a boy he fled with his family from a postwar Vietnam,

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A review of 'Love Hurts' with Ke Huy Quan as a hitman turned real estate agent whose violent past comes back to haunt him with ex-partner Ariana DeBose