While a lot of modern action movies highlight brutality, Jonathan Eusebio’s Love Hurts is a surprise in that it contains a particular level of charm and sweetness. Leaning heavily into its title and Valentine’s Day setting,

In 'Love Hurts,' the likable actor is stuck juggling a nonsensical Valentine’s Day plot, Jackie Chan-style stunts and various other half-baked ideas.

Love Hurts” runs a mere 83 minutes, but that word “mere” can be so misleading! The minutes fly like months. Or a triple bill of “The Brutalist,” the Kenneth Branagh “Hamlet” and the seven-hour 1968 film version of “War and Peace.

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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.”

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

Spielberg directed a 12-year-old Quan opposite Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” They celebrated the 2023 awards season together, with Quan in the race for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Spielberg for “The Fabelmans.”

PLOT A mild-mannered realtor discovers that he can’t escape his violent past. CAST Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Mustafa Shakir RATED R (strong bloody violence) LENGTH 1:23 WHERE Area theaters BOTTOM LINE Oscar-winner Quan returns in an iffy but passable action comedy.