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,

The Oscar-winning actor stars alongside fellow honoree Ariana DeBose in director Jonathan Eusebio’s awkward action-comedy about a former assassin, who is pulled out of his normal new life as a real-estate agent and back into a world of bloodshed.

Ke Huy Quan has had a weird career. He made two widely seen studio hits as a child, endearing himself to a generation as Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and Data in "The Goonies.

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

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.”

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.

Love Hurts gets bogged down by its talky second act, but Ke Huy Quan's charms and fists are still enough to mostly salvage the action comedy.

Love Hurts is the latest production from David Leitch and Kelly McCormick's 87North Productions. The studio has been responsible for some of the best action

After years of having “fantasized” about starring in action films, Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan is finally fulfilling that dream with Universal Pictures’ forthcoming Love Hurts, which he revealed he passed up a couple times before Steven Spielberg convinced him otherwise.