Love Lies Bleeding (2008)

Truly the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater

Thanks for the memories!

An absolute waste of money

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Good low budget exploitation film has an Iraq war vet trying to get buy in a bad neighborhood. When his house is robbed by the local bad guys, he goes to get his stuff back and walks into the aftermath of a bloody shoot out over drug money. He takes the money, grabs his girlfriend and runs. Unfortunately the money belonged to a crooked DEA agent and he wants the money back.I never heard of this film before I stumbled on it and the presence of Christian Slater as the bad DEA agent was the reason I picked it up. Slater is quite good as the bad guy and he makes watching this film a great deal of fun since its a nice break from his normal heroic screen persona. The action is well done and keeps your interest. The cast sells what is a run of the mill plot making this a perfect film for a rainy afternoon. If there is any flaw its that the film feels a bit too much like True Romance at times. Perhaps its Slater, perhaps its other things, but more than one I asked myself why they bothered copying Tarantino when the film works so well on its own terms.Worth a look.

I recently purchased Love Lies Bleeding because I'm a fan of Jenna Dewan and Christian Slater. This movie was a decent suspense thriller and I loved every minute of it. Jenna Dewan(Tamara and Step Up) and Brian Geraghty(I Know Who Killed Me and Cruel World) star as a married teenage couple, who have a rough life, until he finds a bag of money. So they take the money and flee to Las Vegas to have a proper wedding. Everything is going great until Christian Slater(Alone in the Dark) and his people show up to claim the money. He plays a good psychopath in this flick, as he hunts the young couple to get back the millions of dollars of drug money. This movie was awesome and scary and suspenseful. I definitely recommend this to anyone who comes across it.

I don't see how anyone can give this film a good rating and to compare it favourably with True Romance is an insult to that movie and film-making in general. The plot is you're standard 'couple stumble across wads of cash and go on the run'. There's nothing new in this story but that is not what makes it a bad film.What makes this cringe-worthy viewing is the absolutely sloppy writing. The characters (all of them) are made to do such stupid things like leaving bags of cash wide open for all to see, not once, not twice, not thrice...And other things like buying a massively conspicuous getaway car, not locking a car with wads of cash in it. Our heroine in a maid's uniform with a massive and fresh gash on her head allowed to walk past a Police checkpoint who are on the look out for such a person.The list is absolutely endless, and there's even an apparently abandoned but fully functioning, rust and dereliction free power plant.I had given this 3/10 but now that I've written about it I realise that is too generous 2 is all it's worth despite the odd amusing reference to True Romance that has been slipped in.

This film was average because it resembles True Romance too much. A couple looking to make a better life for themselves, stolen cash, bad guys and Christian Slater. The couple are in a rut, he finds some dirty money and the couple set off across the U.S., get married and visit a casino. Bent cops then chase them to get their money. Local law enforcers get involved and a whole load of people all get shot. The likeness to True Romance was evident from the start and the constant 'I love you' between the couple added to this. However, it wasn't as good as True Romance and the fact that it seemed like it was meant to be just like true romance made it worse.But worth a watch if not doing much else. The film was very average and to be honest not worth talking a whole lot about. Having said that, to grade it a 2 out of 10 is unfair and it deserves around a 4. If True Romance had never been made then it may achieve a 6 or 7.