07 | February | 2025 | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

The new Valentine’s Day horror movie “Heart Eyes” is one of the few run-of-the-mill horror movies that is successful in making fun of itself and actually having a sense of humor. Considering the dumb and insane premise of this movie “A mass murderer goes around killing couples during Valentine’s Day while wearing a mask that has eyes that are shaped like red hearts”. Considering an idea this ridiculous, having many scenes of comedy seems mandatory.

Heart Eyes has only one named star, Jordana Brewster, of the Fast and Furious movie franchise. Jordana plays Detective Jeanine Shaw and her name includes a reference to the movie “Hobbs and Shaw” (2019), because her police partner’s last name is Hobbs. The central part of this story is the relationship between two co-workers Ally played by Olivia Holt and Jay played by Mason Gooding, who have a love-hate combative relationship when together, and the rest of the time they are running for their lives trying not to be murdered by a crazy mask-heart-eyes wearing murderer, who much of the time looks too funny to invoke any real fear.

There is the expected story twist at the end, that showed some imagination, even though most of this is rather stupid, but funny enough to hold your attention.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this film is too high 85%, with my rating 75% and a moderate recommendation, only because the screenwriter showed some original ideas and imagination.

When you win an Academy award, as the two main stars in the new movie “Love Hurts” have, what normally follows are money-making opportunities as a result of your Oscar. Unfortunately, Ke Huy Quan, who plays Marvin Gable – a real estate agent and former hitman, and Ariana DeBose, who plays another criminal, Rose Carlisle chose a weak script that is nothing more than a series of scenes that are excuses to show elaborate Karate action.

There is no visible and understandable storyline in this film, and having impressive and violent action scenes is not enough to cover all that is wrong with a film like this. This film also has x-NFL running back Marshawn Lynch in another movie-acting role and overall he looks like he has a future in the movie business. Marshawn plays King who is another hitman working for a criminal organization who has many violent fighting scenes mostly with Marvin – but not much else in terms of real acting in a movie.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this forgettable-seen-this-too-many times already is a correct and very low 23% and I agree with this rating and do not recommend this movie.