Heart Eyes – Non Spoiler Movie Review

If you were thinking of watching Heart Eyes as a romantic night out this weekend, might I suggest anything else?

I took in the movie over the weekend so you don't have to. I'm all for a good slasher horror movie, but I found this one eye-rollingly dumb. Every cheesy horror cliche wrapped up in an hour-and-a-half film.

The movie takes place in Seattle where it's coming up on Valentine's Day. For the past few years, the Valentine's Day murderer "Heart Eyes" has stalked couples and gruesomely killed them throughout the country. This year is no exception. The movie starts with a couple becoming engaged, and it's actually somewhat humorous. It goes downhill from there.

The movie follows Ally (Olivia Holt) and Jay Simmons (Mason Gooding), who meet at a local coffee shop in a very typical romantic comedy sort of way. Turns out, Jay has been asked to come into the marketing company that Ally works at to help in a campaign. I mean, what are the chances?!?! They end up going to dinner, then followed and stalked by the killer, and a lot of predictable events take place. Like I said earlier, it's an eye-roller of a film.

There are many things I didn't like about this movie. First, I HATE rom-coms and this movie had more of that than I wanted. Secondly, on purpose or not, there was some terrible dialogue in the movie. A few times they talked directly to the killer in an absurd way. Third, it was "Scream" like. The killer's identity isn't revealed till almost the end of the movie. I'm not a fan of the Scooby Doo reveal. Spoiler alert, this movie had more than one Heart Eyes killer, and one of them didn't make any sense to me.

I'll admit, I went into this movie prepared for the worst, and that's what I got. I'm giving this movie a 1 1/2 out of 5.

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