After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school. But when his troubled best friend James—hiding a dangerous life in clandestine MMA fights—sparks a rivalry that quickly turns into irresistible attraction, June must choose between safety and a love that upends everything she thought she wanted.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.1/10
IMDb: 4.3/10
Letterboxd: 1.44/5
TMDB: 5.9/10
Director
Roger Kumble
Production
Lotus Production, Amazon MGM Studios, Leone Film Group
Cast
Pepe Barroso, Mia Jenkins, Luca Melucci, Andrea Guo, Michelangelo Vizzini, Madior Fall, Vanessa Donghi, Elizabeth Kinnear, Tommaso Caporali, Ángel de Miguel, Bruno Cabrerizo, Edoardo De Marte, Alessio Di Chirico, Jim Bannister, Marco Patrassi, Riccardo Rischia, Olga Zhandarmoya
Where to watch
Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
A melodramatic teen romance with a forbidden-love setup, but the overwhelming audience response suggests thin characterization, rushed chemistry, and a style that plays more like fan-fiction adaptation than a satisfying film. If you want glossy, high-emotion romance, there are stronger options; if you need coherent drama or earned tension, this is likely to frustrate.
Best for
Viewers who enjoy so-bad-it’s-fascinating romance melodrama
Fans of high-school love triangles and taboo attraction
Audiences looking for glossy, escapist guilty-pleasure viewing
Skip if
You want believable emotional stakes
You dislike overwrought dialogue and contrived plotting
You prefer romance with actual payoff and chemistry
You are sensitive to shallow character writing or cringe-inducing tone
Overview
Love Me Love Me is built from familiar ingredients: grief, a new city, a perfect-boy contrast, and a dangerous rival with a hidden life. In theory, that gives it the kind of heightened romantic tension that can power a glossy young-adult drama. In practice, the response suggests the movie leans hard on mood and fantasy while skipping the harder work of making the relationships feel lived-in or emotionally convincing.
Worth noting
The appeal here is obvious: Milan as a backdrop, school romance, and a brooding underground-fight angle all promise a pulpy, escapist watch. But the film seems to have landed as more frustrating than intoxicating, with viewers fixating on the lack of payoff and the sense that the story is assembled from internet-native romance tropes rather than shaped into a coherent feature.
Bottom line
For viewers who enjoy messy, overcooked melodrama, there may be some accidental entertainment value. For most people, though, this looks like a case where the premise is more compelling than the execution, and the emotional beats never quite earn the intensity the movie is reaching for.
Top Letterboxd reviews
suzi (0.5★) · 3526 likes
i need a lobotomy after this movie. whoever put a chappell roan's song at the beginning should be in jail
elly (2.5★) · 2628 likes
to quote shane hollander; we didnt even kiss!!
sveva (0.5★) · 2363 likes
it’s set in italy with fully italian actors but everyone is called james and will like we’re in some alternate universe where milan is secretly los angeles, i’m sorry but this is exactly why some ff should stay on wattpad, not everything needs to become a movie. some stories are meant to live in the notes app at 2am and that’s okay !!!
ayeshau10 (3★) · 2118 likes
shit
when’s the next one out
negative (0.5★) · 1393 likes
ofc she’d rather wear trousers to school and then pull up to a party in a mini dress