Love Is a Gun

1994 "Love fades, but murder is forever."
4.9| 1h45m| R| en
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A model causes an obsessed police photographer to lose his girlfriend and become a murder suspect.

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TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Cristi_Ciopron This psychological thriller has been screened on a main Romanian TV channel at least two times:12 years ago (when it has made some impression on the Eric Roberts fans),and this year.As I said,12 years ago Love Is a Gun did not pass unnoticed;I remember discussing it with an Eric Roberts fan and how she found it interesting .This thing is certain:in Eric Roberts career's table,Love Is a Gun stands out as offering him a large role--even in a cheap B thriller.All three leading actors were interesting,and the thing could have been fine:a man's addiction to a femme 'fatale.In its class of B thrillers from the '90s (and I was a huge consumer of such shows),Love Is a Gun is conspicuous for the quality of Eric Roberts' role (the role,his creation,not the character as the writer conceived it,or rather didn't ...);this increases the impression of uncanniness given by "LIG",as all the other characters\roles are card-board-made,with only Roberts trying,striving to get something out of his role.So,12 years ago at least 2 persons in Romania,me and an Eric Roberts fan young woman have seen "LIG" as an Eric Roberts movie and also as a deserved treat (I was less satisfied,though,as I expected an erotic thriller and found the sex too poor ...).Eric Roberts is one of the actors that passed through the '90s with an abundant harvest of such cheap B thrillers,and this is better than no movies at all (e.g.,Rourke sank lower than this level!).Formerly I saw in this class of movies mostly the clichés, flaws, shortcomings, deficiencies and tricks;now I see them as a way of keeping one's place on the sets;and I do not blame the actors anymore for accepting such scripts,etc..David Hartwell directed only this feature movie;I guess no one regrets it."LIG" has,in fact,no script,and almost everything remains unexplained ( Preston's insanity,the things told by her husband ;Roberts' past,his dreams,his watch;the supernatural side--because there is such a thing,too ...).Alan Roberts' Save Me (1993)(with Lysette Anthony,Michael Ironside,Harry Hamlin and Olivia Hussey) had a better script;Fred Olen Ray's Possessed by the Night (1994) (with Shannon Tweed and Sandahl Bergman) had a better script;other Shannon Tweed and Drew Barrymore films (Poison Ivy ,Sketch Artist ,The Amy Fisher Story ,Doppelganger ) all had better scripts.
Pepper Anne I had trouble watching this movie the first time, somewhat irritated by either Kelly Preston's bad acting, or just the idiocy of character. But, I was determined to get through it on a second viewing and was glad that I did.The story is a good tale of suspense: Eric Roberts is Jack Hart, a crime scene photographer who is having some weird experiences with deja vu (which were not well explained even by the conclusion of the film). Amused by a photograph of Jean Starr (Preston) he finds at the station, he decides to hire her for his entries into the department photo contest, "A Woman's Place Is..." As it turns out, the photos he has taken of her are pictures that have already been taken, though he can't explain why he can foresee these things (although no one seems to be that interested in it, anyways). Of course, weak-hearted Jack gets himself into plenty of trouble by becoming intimately involved with Jean, who is a bit demented and, not to mention married. What becomes the makings of a good tale of psychological suspense, however, eventually just evolves into one of jealous fiancées and weirdo mistresses with Jack at the heart of it all.The opening and closing sequences, of which the story is the flashback setting for, are great sequences that deserved to be the bookends of a much more interesting thriller, one that entail. Unfortunately, the story wanes as Jack becomes ever more involved with the deranged model and ever more in trouble with his present girlfriend (played by Eliza Garrett, Eric Roberts' real-life wife). Aside from the boredom, relieved by a lot of fast-forwarding, I was anticipating at least a number of good chase sequences, and some more eerie than what actually transpired (for a while, it appears to be nothing more than a scene out of Fatal Attraction). But, they do try to keep that element gained in the opening and closing sequences, but only intermittently throughout the film (like when Jack is watching television and the night's events resemble a soap opera he watches the following day). A tighter story and greater consistency would have helped this movie tremendously.Fans of an obscure thriller, or simply Eric Roberts fans, should at least give this one a try. You might find something more to appreciate than I did.
shannon715 I like Eric Roberts, even though he plays a moron forensic photographer in this movie. But maybe this is what the scrip called for. The dream sequences and imagery gave one the feeling that this was something David Lynch would write as a teenager but maybe I'm studying too much into it. Truthfully, I rather liked the movie. I found myself laughing right along with `Jack' as he watched his own scenario from the night before; unfold on a TV soap opera, verbatim.at a house of a murder site with the body lying before him. I also wondered where the dream ended and the nightmare began or vise-a-versa and how conveniently reality could be woven into the two. I personally would recommend the movie as I would any Eric Roberts movie. (Even `The Shadow People and `The Immortals.') Ironically when the movie was over, I sat back and exclaimed.what a ****** up movie!'
Zane-14 I don't know if the producers of this film envisaged that "Love is a Gun" was destined for late night cable but that's where I saw this film and that's what it deserves. A convoluted plot, a by the numbers performance by Eric Roberts and pedestrian pacing throughout unite to consign this film to mediocrity. The only factor that saves "Love is a Gun" from being a complete waste of time is Kelly Preston, who at least looks like she took the role for something other than the money.Eric Roberts plays a photographer infatuated by Kelly Preston who is married to a much older man. Eric and Kelly become embroiled in an affair which causes Eric to start going off the deep end and perform his trade marked crazy man routine which he has honed to a perfection over the years.R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket) gives a solid performance as a detective but the rest of the cast fail to make an impression.As indicated, Kelly Preston is the star of this film and it has perplexed me why she has not become more successful than she is. She either has been stuck in second rate fare where she has little room to show her talents or she bobs up in cameos in block buster movies when she should, by all rights be in the starring role. If the Movie Gods are at all fair, she will soon be offered a role which will do her talents justice and launch her into the acting stratosphere.