Love Lies Bleeding starts off well enough, as a low-level gritty, dark exploitation LGBTQ+ focused movie, but then it becomes a pretentious and silly mess with things happening on screen just for the sake of it. I like the set up as I tend to enjoy films about ordinary people committing extraordinary acts of violence.
The premise is that two lovers (a gym manager played by Kristen Stewart and a bodybuilder played by Katy O'Brian) end up having to cover up a murder. I like the subversion of expectation with having
an extremely physically intimidating woman as one of the leads, its a unique aspect of the film but it goes nowhere.
The movie is too pretentious for its own good and comes off as laughable in the end.
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