Fuck Marry Kill

I really do root for Lucy Hale, but she doesn't make it easy. Fuck Marry Kill is a middling romantic comedy spliced together with a below-average thriller that leaves everyone unsatisfied. Hale stars as 30 year-old Eva who jumps back in to the dating scene after the end of a long relationship (with a doofus we can't possibly see her spending 8 minutes with let alone 8 years) just as a serial killer is targeting young women from dating apps. While the killer is discussed early on, most of the first-half of the film follows Eva meeting three bachelors and discovering she's walked into the classic Fuck, Marry, Kill scenario with her friends (Virginia Gardner, Bethany Brown, and JayR) and sister (Brooke Nevin) all having differing opinions on who she should end up with.

The film takes a turn as, without any real evidence and spurred mostly on by paranoia, Eva suspects one of the three men (Samer Salem, Brendan Morgan, and Jedidiah Goodacre) might be the serial killer and, in a pretty half-assed manner, begins to investigate. Before the end a killer will be unmasked and she'll find love. Neither the choice of killer nor her new boyfriend proves interesting while a more headfirst dive by the character, a crime-pod fan, crafting her own pod while trying to catch the killer by using the app might have made for a far more intriguing, although likely not all that more believable, premise.

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• Title: Fuck Marry Kill
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