Love Battlefield

Another packed Sundays on Fire screening at Nitehawk and let me say that, of all the movies shown in the series that I'd not previously seen over the four (?) years they've been running the series, this was my favorite. Introduced by the ever-entertaining Grady as a riff of the popularity of early 2000s 'yuppie romance' films, this starts As a meet cute, evolves over a montage of minor relationship irritations, before culminating in a brittle, parking lot breakup. But that's only the beginning of things going wrong, and then wronger, and the wrongest for the couple who, before they can catch their breath with up tangled with a criminal gang. The bulk of the film takes place over the course of one horrible day, the body count is over 20 by the time it ends, without trying to sound like a tagline, a bunch of people will have been pushed way beyond their limits. I just got home and, prior to writing this, ordered a copy of the movie online -- I'll probably have more to say after a rewatch when it arrives but, in the meantime, this was great.