Love Me

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ **Hauntingly Beautiful, Though Not As Tragic As It Could Be**

*Love Me*, starring the always captivating Kristen Stewart and the incredibly nuanced Steven Yeun, is a visually mesmerizing and emotionally intriguing film. The performances alone are worth the full five stars-both actors deliver deeply layered portrayals that linger long after the credits roll. Their chemistry is haunting and intimate, carrying the film even through its slower or more ambiguous moments.

That said, the story itself felt a bit mediocre. I found myself wishing it had leaned harder into tragedy-there were so many opportunities for deeper emotional devastation that the film seemed to pull back from. With a concept this bold and actors this talented, a more tragic arc could have elevated it from memorable to unforgettable.

Still, *Love Me* is an experience. It's strange, slow-burning, and laced with melancholy-just not quite as heart-wrenching as I hoped.

Love Me (2025) is a science fiction romance movie and it was very mediocre.

Positives for Love Me (2025): Steven Yuen and Kristen Stewart do have good chemistry with each other. There are some interesting things being explored in the movie. The movie has good pacing. And finally, I liked the futuristic look of certain scenes and they were interesting.

Negatives for Love Me (2025): There are things in the movie that I found to be weird. I failed to understand the whole point of the story. And finally, the timeline of the movie doesn't really make any sense.

Overall, Love Me (2025) is a mix bag of things I liked and things I disliked.

Love Me is one of those great movies that refuses to leave your brain. It raises so many interesting questions and answers none of them. You end up thinking about the concepts long after you see the movie.

So I give the movie two reviews.

UPON FIRST WATCHING: 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠 (5/10) Interesting, but kinda weak... Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun are really good, but just where was this story going, and did it get there, and do we care?

AFTER 24 HOURS: 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠 (10/10) One of the most intriguing, thought provoking, emotionally exciting science fiction movies ever written!! Can AI evolve? Will individual devices become independent thinking beings?

And, with all of the wisdom, the writings, the creations, of the entire human civilization, would AI really use social media from which to learn? And, OMG, is that where future generations of people will learn about humanity?

I like both Kristen Stewart (more SEBERG and ADVENTURELAND than TWILIGHT) and Steven Yeun (THE WALKING DEAD), and I also love a good post-apocalyptic story, so that was enough for me to put this movie on reserve at the library. Unfortunately, the film is a bit of a misfire. I hate knocking a film for being too ambitious, but this romance between an AI buoy in the ocean and a satellite in space, which are both still functioning centuries after humans have gone extinct, doesn't quite pull off its ambitions. The two base their robot courtship on a social media influencer's posts about herself and her boyfriend, with the two taking on avatars of their long-dead human inspirations. There's a subtext about real-life versus phony online "lives" and, more importantly, about love and connection, that even in a lifeless world, two sentient machines still yearn for connection. The film lacked the emotional resonance it was aspiring to, but Stewart and Yuen are both likable and manage to make the film watchable, even if they are CGI avatars for too much of the film. Even though I won't recommend LOVE ME, I'll be curious to see what writer/directors Andrew & Sam Zuchero do in the future.

I can swear that the directors have watched melodysheep on YouTube.

The beginning showing the timeline of earth has a similar feel to their videos on YouTube not even mentioning the font used to show the years.

That's all. Just find it interesting.

Just started watching the movie, let's see how it goes!

I love both Kristen and Steven so this should be a good time. Just filling in the words now for word count. The robots look cute.

Is it decided that the theory of another planet (theia) colliding with earth been adopted as working theory? I don't know

With the asteriod coming in 2032, we will see how it goes.