This author is old enough to remember a special period in the history of the cinema, which the new criminal comedy of the Athonian Eusebio/Non-Quite-A-Romance "Loveum Hurt" seems to be attractive. On the eve of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fantasy", back in 1994, numerous films began to appear as flamp, violent characters, their mouths full of pop culture references, usually involved with a organized crime conspiracy, brutal assassinations, brutal assassinations or other works of bone crippling. These films raised their bloodshed, but retained the characters weird. The genre's stars were too cool to be terrified with pistol battles and would kill with impunity, just to return to talk about movies, fast food or some kind of personal miracles. Summy was the leading ethos of the era.

Some were comical, others down, but they all belonged to the era of post-pulp. "Goodbye Lubovnik", "Locked, Actions and Two Smoking Bars", "2 Days in the Valley", "Truth or Consequences, NM", "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead", "Big Hit,", " "Aces Smokin", "Go".

Eusebio, a fighting choreographer and a stuntman working on films like "The Boy's Fall" and "Johnon Wick" seems to be eavesdropping, very distant, in the strangely violent post-pulp era with "Loveube hurts". This film is certainly one of Tarantino's great -grandchildren. And while it contains almost no advantage, and its humor is funny-it is more attractive than funny-"Love Coat" has at least a certain degree of confused, violent versa and ordinary retro-style module Kung-Fu. Case in point: It is set in a parallel version of Wisconsin in 2025, but contains bizarre elements of the 90s; One of the central settings of the film is Chinese bar Boba, which also has arcade machines "Mortal Komat II" and seems to rent cartridges for VHS.

If you want an exhibition, "Love Coat" will have you well covered. After several sequences of combat sequences, the tremor is placed in a very long groove - maybe 30 minutes - where more characters in multiple locations explain the finers of the plot. Ke Huy Quan is played by Marvin Gable, Starvala Realtor in Wisconsin, happy to be a chipper-AF-pixie dream sheath, which brings sugar cookies to the office. He rides his bike to work and is frustrated that someone is, like Duffy Duck, drawing a mustache on all his local bus ads. Marvin also loves the day of the Wine, which is rapidly approaching, much of his pleasure. It may be February in Wisconsin, but there seems to be no snow. As for this writing, it is currently 29 ° in Milwaukee.

The action begins when Marvin visits the assassin by the nickname with the nickname of Raven (Mustafa Shakir), naturally owned by several quires: he holds the big shovels hidden in his shoes and wants to recite poetry before killing an enemy. Marvin suddenly shows Madcap's martial arts skills and manages to escape. He seems to have ever worked as a murderous executive of his brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu) and has been hiding as a realtor for several years.

You see: Some time ago, Marvin is for Inubi in Knukles Rose's lawyer ("Kraven Hunter" Ariana Debase. Marvin, instead of killing her as instructed, let her go. Since then, she has reappeared and, thereby activating various mobsters and assassins. Marvin seems to be the last to see her alive. In the dialog we are convinced that Marvin was (and still still) for Lovebube in Rose, although Debza and Kuan have no romantic or sexual chemistry. Loveube, it seems, is academic in "Loveum Hurts".

We are talking about how Marvin struggled with problems with the management of anger and that his violent anger is the "real" version of himself, but the true darkness of the development of that character has never been fully explored. There are even a few dark tantalizing moments when Rose, after joining Marvin, implies that his capacity for violence is his sexiest trait. Unfortunately, all ideas for fevering or exciting, violence -based Loveubeube is activated in a light tone of the film. Instead of romantic or sexual darkness they are fists of a miracle and an endless, infinite exhibition.

Between the ensemble: "Bottom" Marshan Lynch Andre Eriksen also play a pair of dirty assassinators, with the latter constantly complaining about his tight connection with his wife. Reese Darby plays a small role as a cheerful accountant, but the actor seems to be not allowed to shrink. All characters fight and argue with each other, but their wicked/daily dialogue never breaks into sparkling wit. Everything is just a small conversation.

Indeed, too much "Love Coat" is just functional explanations. More scenes in a row are dedicated to Marvin's old life details with his brother, or what Rose did to get the money he was accused of for theft, or who could be responsible, or how Marvin's shoes feel. The show "Show, don't say" Axiom is not a difficult and fast rule for making films, of course, but "Love Coat" could show more and say less. The excessive power of the exhibition retains the pace weak throughout the middle third, which is an impressive 83 -minute film feat.

"Loveum hurts" marks the first leading role for Ke Hugh Kuan and it is used well enough. It never trembles from the screen and does not handle the romantic elements perfectly, but it has an attractive quality of hanging that feels human and relative. However, the average of the film around him, there is always an instinct to cheer him up.

/Movie rating: 5 out of 10

"Loveum hurts" opens in theaters on February 7, 2025.