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Does Love Hurts Even Count As a Movie?
If you can’t make the fight scenes interesting in a film that’s nothing but fight scenes, what have you got?
Quan, whose pleasantly nebbishy persona should make him a natural for everyman roles, plays Marvin Gable, a friendly Milwaukee real-estate agent pulled back into a world of gang violence he thought he’d left behind. Director Jonathan Eusebio, a talented fight coordinator with titles like The Fall Guy and Violent Night and assorted John Wick s to his credit, doesn’t give the action any spontaneity or grace or visceral pizzazz. The script does make occasional stabs at something offbeat, with haphazard cutaways to a romantic subplot in which Marvin’s depressed assistant, Ashley (Lio Tipton), falls for Raven (Mustafa Shakir), an enormous, poetry-writing hit man.
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