A valentine's day action vehicle for Ke Huy Quan that's sadly too half-arsed to work well, despite some decent ideas and action provided by the 87North crew.
Quan plays a real estate agent who's forced to to come out of retirement as a hitman when an old flame (Ariana DeBose) comes out of hiding to cause problems with a local kingpin. Bloody mayhem ensues, and some pretty unconvincing romance.
It's fun enough, though rarely funny, and it can look surprisingly good. But while the fights are well staged they're not particularly great - this is a shame, because director Jonathan Eusebio has decades of stuntwork and has been a second unit director in films with some outstanding action.
Most of the problems can probably be laid down at the feet of its script, but it's possible production constraints also played a part in the film's almost ramshackle feel. The protagonists are excellent taken individually, but there's not a lot of chemistry between them, which is pretty big flaw for a film that, to its credit, takes its romantic side very seriously.
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