Love Hurts 4K Ultra HD

"Love Hurts" is an electrifying story of revenge with visceral action sequences and heart. Marvin (Ke Huy Quan) left behind a violent life to hide in suburban Milwaukee as a mild-mannered realtor. He also left behind Rose (Ariana DeBose), his former partner in crime. Now she’s back and wants Marvin to help take revenge against his crime lord brother, Knuckles (Daniel Wu). Like it or not, Marvin finds himself back in a wild world of wisecracking hitmen with his open houses erupting into war zones. He’ll need his lethal fighting skills, wit, and heroism to survive and save the day. (Gary Reber)

Special features include alternate ending (HD 01:54), eight deleted and extended scenes (HD 96;54), the featurettes: "The Ke To Gable" (HD 03:33), "The Heart Of Love Hurts" (HD 07:34) and "Stunts Hurt" (HD 10:27) and a Movies Anywhere digital copy.

The 2.00:1 2160p HEVC/H.265 Ultra HD HDR10 picture, reviewed on a VIZIO Quantum X P85QX-JI UHD/HDR display, was photographed digitally using the Arri Alexa 35 camera system and sourced from a 4K master Digital Intermediate format. This is a gorgeous picture that lights up the screen, The setting is urban, both interior and exterior, during Valentine's Day. Depth and dimensionality are excellent. The color fidelity is superb. Hues are perfectly saturated with warm and rich tones. The color palette pops with strong primaries and a wide color gamut that exhibits nuanced hues. Everything looks terrific within the movie's natural color palette. HDR contrast is excellent. Black levels are extremely deep. Shadow delineation is revealing with deep shadings. While levels are brilliantly illuminated, Resolution is superb with a picture that exhibits excellent clarity. Facial features, such as skin pores, lines, mustaches, beards and hair, are finely depicted. Clothing fabrics are revealing. Set design and urban settings, as well as objects, exhibited excellent clarity and texture. This is a bright and colorful picture with exciting imagery. )Gary Reber)

The Dolby Atmos'Dolby TrueHD 7.1-channel soundtrack is action packed, boisterous and dynamic sounding. In this action romp, sound effects are powerful, especially during fight scenes with knives, pistol and shotgun gunfire, metal straws, and punches, and bouts of mayhem, throughout the ear-level sound field. The action moves precisely through the soundstage. Bass energy is excellent with solid support for the special effects. The incredibly powerful bass is bone-crunching in support of never-ending punches, kicks, crashes, and body slams. The .1 LFE channel is used to reinforce the action. Foley sound effects are intense and perfectly synced with picture. The orchestral score is dynamic sounding and is presented with a wide and deep soundstage that aggressively extends to the surrounds. Surround energy is strong and directionalized with sound effects and brief dialogue. Dialogue is intelligible throughout with generally good ADR production.

The Immersive Sound element is virtually non-existent, except for a couple of very brief atmospheric segments of no consequence. This is one of those soundtracks that presented numerous opportunities to develop the height layer, yet was not. This should have been credited Dolby ?TrueHD rather than Dolby Atmos.

This is a very exciting and dynamically powerful holosonic® soundtrack that will heighten the adrenaline. (Gary Reber)