This is probably the most unlikely romcom-related movie ever made. It certainly threw me at first.
In the opening few minutes it's all milk and honey until there's an office Valentine party at an estate agent's - or realtor as the Americans call it - and suddenly it all kicks off. Before you know it, there's a wrecked room, and a man with a knife through his hand that has him nailed to a table.
And then it gets more violent.
But there's romance here too! Love Hurts is kind of like a date movie for MMA fans.
Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Loki) steps into his first major leading role as an unlikely hero, a seemingly mild-mannered co-worker with a dark secret that he is desperate to leave behind.
Trouble is, his past won't let him go.
Quan stars as the superbly named Marvin Gable (Marvin Gaye - geddit?), a real estate agent working in Milwaukee. Marv receives a crimson envelope from Rose (Oscar winner Ariana Debose from West Side Story), a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead.
She's not happy.
Even more unhappy is Marvin's brother, Knuckles (played by Daniel Wu). As the name suggests, Knuckles is a tough guy. As well as being Marvin's brother, he also was his boss. His 'gang boss' boss.
He's also angry at Marvin. So there's a lot of very violent men out to make mincemeat out of Marvin.
As a result, he's thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and - given his current occupation - open houses that are turned into deadly warzones.
If lots of cartoonish violence and lengthy fight scenes, with a bit of romance, fits your description of a good night at the movies, Love Hurts could make you very happy indeed.
