Review | Love the Way U Lie movie review: Netflix Filipino romance is dead on arrival
- Heavily influenced by Ghost starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, this Filipino remake only pays lip service to the popular 1990 film
- What transpires is a flaccid romcom that is a torturous mess from start to finish
1.5/5 stars
Imagine a Filipino remake of the Academy Award-winning supernatural romance Ghost, retold from the perspective of Whoopi Goldberg’s phoney psychic, and you’re already picturing an infinitely better experience than RC Delos Reyes’ flaccid romcom.
Love the Way U Lie is dead on arrival, limping its way through an awkward courtship between Alex Gonzaga’s lovelorn fortune-teller and Xian Lim’s grief-stricken tech CEO, who are brought together by the ghost of his dead wife.
Reyes and screenwriter Danno Kristoper C. Mariquit also reference the 1998 Filipino romance Honey, Nasa Langit Na Ba Ako? (aka Honey, Am I in Heaven?), itself heavily influenced by the 1990 film starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. But it proves little more than lip service from a project desperately pleading for validation.
Stacey (Gonzaga) discovers she really can converse with the dead when she hears the voice of Sara (Kylie Verzosa) in her ear. Sara is desperate to see her “boo-boo” move on, and she enlists Stacey to serve as conduit, and possible romantic prospect, for Nathan, who is still mourning her death a year on.
Stacey is happy to oblige, instantly smitten by the handsome businessman, but as they get closer, she suspects Nathan is just using her to reconnect with his lost love.