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Josh Ruben’s Heart Eyes melds the slasher and romance in ways that are designed to be disruptive and overtly eye-catching. It wants to give the viewer a giddy, breathless time at the movies without fussing too much about stray tangents of the serial killer’s other victims. Only one murder gets dispensed in the prologue right away, so that the film can then swerve into its central, hastily developed love story between two heartbroken people, one turned cynical and distant and the other still desperately idealistic and hopeful in love returning.
The V-Day slasher is the driving engine of the film. Can the lovers be safe while a maniacal killer is on the loose, targeting them as the sorry victims? The motivations take forever to skid in but serial killer dramas don’t really demand it as a constant prerequisite. Yet the writing doesn’t favour the film to build its romance as effectively persuasive enough to make us root for the central duo. It helps that the two actors front-lining it are immensely charismatic, incredibly self-possessed and their spark lets the film coast along at a chipper pace. Thanks to the combined charm of Mason Gooding and Olivia Holt, the film sticks the landing even as it hurtles through the roughest contrivances.
Heart Eyes (2025) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:
Is This Thriller Worth the Leaps of Faith It Demands?
Be not mistaken. This is a film that consistently and unfailingly demands several leaps of faith, asking you to believe with conviction in its multiple contrivances, a slew of loopholes. The script, written by Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, insists you overlook its onslaught of situations that strain credibility, stretch believability, while it mounts reckless kills, built around the central lover duo whose romance is as cursorily developed as possible. The script doesn’t care to stitch considerable pressing points so when the killer’s identity is unravelled, the intended surprise doesn’t hit at all given the lack of backstory.
You wish for more, the characters’ decisions and impulses to make an impact within the moment and as part of a coherent whole. Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen. Right from its opening, danger is embedded. A proposal is disrupted when the lovebirds are attacked by a masked maniac on the loose. First, the photographer planted at a distance gets slain, then the lovers. The girl is pulped in a winery where she seeks to hide out.
Can Ally Escape the Nightmare?
The film is set in Seattle. There’s fast-spreading word of a serial killer on the loose, who only preys on lovers on Valentine’s Day. The killer is said to have found a new hunting ground in Seattle. Everybody is alerted and asked to be absolutely vigilant. We follow Ally (Olivia Holt) in the throes of a breakup and a marketing campaign she mounted that’s gone kaput. She’s prepared herself for dressing down by her boss, where the new guy at work, Jay (Mason Gooding), turns out to be the same person whom she met earlier at a café.
He suggests meeting at a restaurant to discuss a new project outline. The meeting ends disastrously where she is superbly rude to him. However, she’s also charmed by him, resulting in the two sharing a kiss. Suddenly she sees her ex close by, an awkward moment ensues. Jay follows Ally into her place. Chaos is unleashed when the heart masked killer arrives out of nowhere, chasing them.
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What happens at the police station?
Ally’s able to get away, alerting the cops who unexpectedly apprehend Jay, spotting suspicious things in his possession. He’s taken to the police station, where Detective Shaw questions him. Ally also lands there. But even this space isn’t safe. The killer is lurking here too. One of the cops gets stabbed by the killer. Somehow, Ally and Jay manage to get away and find themselves in the middle of a drive-in show.
They take quiet shelter in a car, however, a pair of loud lovers behind draws the killer to the car, murdering the latter two brutally. Jay and Ally emerge as the hero of the day when they succeed in nabbing and slaying the killer. There’s a moment of relief, things settling into peace. But does everything get sorted so easily? We realize there’s more in store.
Jay asks Ally if she’d be in a relationship with him. She’s still doubtful about it, and he drives to the airport, with Shaw offering him a lift. It’s on the insistence of her friend, Monica, Ally reconsiders and darts to the airport, hoping to reunite with him. Suddenly she receives a call, demanding she turn up at a designated chapel where Jay is being held. Landing there, she is confronted with the killers. It’s Detective Shaw and the IT guy, David, at the police station. The design comes to the fore. The two are lovers in a throuple situation, whose kinks entail murderous rampages of other lovers. Shaw urges Ally to kill Jay, only then can she be allowed to get away. But Ally confesses her immense love to Jay, and attacks Shaw.
Heart Eyes (2025) Movie Ending Explained:
Is the serial killer nabbed?
A big scuffle follows, involving all four, each trying to up-end the other. Ultimately, of course and predictably, it’s Jay and Ally emerging triumphant on the spot. Shaw and David have the most horrific, gruesome deaths, not so dissimilar to the kind they themselves have committed on a two-year-long spree. They’re shot, stabbed and mutilated. Nothing seems to salvage the scene any further.
In the final section, Jay and Ally’s marketing campaign is a runaway hit. But Ally is moving away, heading back to complete her medical studies. The ending occurs in the drive-in, with Jay popping the engagement ring. Ally seems unsure initially but she leans in and accepts. She knows this is her joy and she must not turn away again. She’s pranked by an unknown number, having the voice of a serial killer, but it turns out to be an arranged scheme with her friend, who’s taking a photograph from a distance. However, when the friend tries to resume the conversation, the call mysteriously cuts. The ambiguous ending portends there may have emerged other killers, and the lovers, the victims yet again.
