Love Lies Bleeding - Movie Review

Love Lies Bleeding is a new romantic crime thriller from A24. It is directed by Rose Glass and stars Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian. Set in 1989, it follows a relationship between a reclusive gym manager (Kristen Stewart) and a body builder (Katy O'Brian). Their love soon turns to violence as they get pulled deep into the web of Lou's criminal family. I have done a quick review of this film on my YouTube channel nearly 2 weeks ago so I thought I would do a more detailed review through my blog.

Love Lies Bleeding is the second of two lesbian crime movies to come out this year so far, the first being the Ethan Coen directed Drive-Away Dolls, and if you saw my review of that on YouTube you would know that movie wasn't exactly what I would call good. This film is not only far superior to that, it's one of the best films of the year! This film is compelling, exciting and features fantastic chemistry between Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian. Rose Glass' direction is absolutely superb! This film is gritty and intense and I loved pretty much every minute of it! The performances are great all around! Kristen Stewart is really improving as an actress! She is getting much better at showing emotions when a scene needs her to and she had great romantic chemistry with Katy O'Brian. Katy O'Brian really did a great job at giving a very intense and riveting performance as a bodybuilder who is trying to achieve her life goals but ultimately finding herself trapped in a terrible situation. Ed Harris is the biggest stand out here! He gives a very cold performance as the crime boss father of Lou (Kristen Stewart's character). He stole every scene he was in and I always looked forward to every scene he popped up in. If you like lots of lesbian action in your movies this is the movie for you! You get lots of make out sessions and sex scenes, so you definitely get your moneys worth here. This movie also has bursts of action and violence that was intense, bloody and satisfying! The film also makes great use of its setting, it really feels like you're in 1989 from the dialogue, to the way it's shot, the hair styles, the vehicles people drive and the soundtrack choices.

As for flaws, there are some iffy effects here, nothing too distracting but at times they are noticeable. It's an A24 film so don't expect the film to be fast paced. The pacing didn't bother me because for me it was extremely well paced, but for people who just want a fast paced thrill ride this is not the movie for you. People may also be divided on the ending, I was a tiny bit mixed on the ending but I do believe the ending may piss some people off. 

In the end, Love Lies Bleeding was a fantastic film! It was a sweat drenched, intense and compelling love story that had the intensity I wanted out of it! It was very well acted thriller that definitely stood out as one of the best films of 2024 so far as this year has been pretty bad for movies so far! Definitely check this one out if you can, it's definitely a great watch.

Grade:  A

Movie details:

MPAA Rating: R (for violence and grisly images, sexual content, nudity, language throughout and drug use)

Production Companies: A24, Film4

Run time: 104 minutes 

Release date: March 8th, 2024

Director: Rose Glass

Writer: Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska

The Wrong Missy - Review/RANT

The Wrong Missy is a “comedy” produced by Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions. It stars David Spade as a total dumbass (as typical for a main character for a Happy Madison movie) as he invites his dream girl out to a resort but instead a total cunt bitch that happens to have the same name as his dream girl shows up. Where do I fucking begin with this piece of shit? First of all, this movie lays on those Happy Madison tropes on thick. You name it, the main character is a dumbass retard, he gets the hot chick even though she's way out of his league, the entire movie revolves around the main character going on vacation, the villain is just as childish and stupid as the main character, you got a lot of the typical Happy Madison cast here, such as Rob Schneider and Nick Swardson, I could go on but I have a lot more bullshit to talk about. 

I have said this about that crime against humanity known as Jack and Jill, there should be a law against putting The Wrong Missy and comedy in the same sentence! To the 32% of critics on Rotten Tomatoes who gave this movie a positive review, who's rotten asshole were you smoking out of? Holy shit this movie was GARBAGE! I had to take a 20 minute break about 35 minutes in because I got so pissed off! Who the fuck finds this shit funny? Not a single joke, person or scene is funny here. David Spade, what the fuck? Before you got with Adam Sandler you were hilarious! You had great comedic chemistry with Chris Farley, you were awesome in the very underrated The Emperor's New Groove! Ever since you got with Happy Madison you went down the fucking shitter! David Spade was awful in this! He delivered his lines like he knew the material he was given was ass! Of course you got Rob Schneider who was never funny in the first place! Nick Swardson is a total dumb fuck here like he always is! 

Now we get to the absolute worst part of this trash excuse for a film, the titular “wrong missy”! She is by far the worst character ever put to film! That's saying something considering all of the garbage I have sat though all these years! She is annoying, a total cunt, and a rapist! I'm not even making that up, there is attempted rape in this film! Fuck sakes, in Jack and Jill we had both Jill and Al Pacino being total creeps, in Pixels we had Josh Gad being an annoying dumbass and a creep, now we have this dumb bitch being an annoying whore and a rapist! Happy Madison Productions, just do everyone a favor and fuck off!

This is a film that gave me a headache and made me shaky because of how angry it made me. I actually wanted to punch a wall because of how bad this movie was! I have to apologize to movies such as You People and Rough Night, those screenplays are nowhere near as bad as this shit was! Fist Fight, Dirty Grandpa, Dirty Love and The Hottie and the Nottie are still worse than this but this is easily one of the worst written comedies I have ever seen in my entire fucking life! I don't know how Netflix thought this was worthy of greenlighting. Oh wait, it's because Adam Sandler is their cash cow and will put out any garbage he produces because Happy Madison movies bring in large streaming numbers for them! It's pretty sad how in these times this garbage is still able to succeed.

Continuing on with the many awful things I can say about this cinematic abortion, as with many Happy Madison movies, it's a film that cost a whole lot of money to make but it doesn't show on the screen. Seriously, where did all that money go? Was it for the cast and crew to take that luxurious vacation? I and many others have asked this, how does a vacation filled with many unfunny hijinks and jokes count as a movie? Why do these movies have bigger budgets than a lot of the big action blockbusters? Guillermo del Toro movies cost way less money than many Happy Madison projects, it's absolutely ridiculous! The direction is not good either, the director couldn't get a good performance out of an actor to save his life. The cinematography is typical for a Happy Madison film. 

So in the end, The Wrong Missy is nothing short of a trainwreck! I never thought I would say this, but I finally found a Happy Madison film that's worse than Jack and Jill! Just thinking about this movie makes my blood pressure run sky high. This is a film for retards! If you see this shit on Netflix, skip it at all costs! Don't waste 90 minutes of your time on this shit, it's not worth it!

Grade:  F

Film Info

Production Companies:  Netflix, Happy Madison Productions

Run time:  90 min

Release date:  May 13th, 2020

Director:  Tyler Spindel

Writer:  Chris Pappas, Kevin Barnett