Heart Eyes Review (2025)

Since a Heart Eyes sequel is happening in 2028, I thought I'd write up my thoughts on this one.

Apr 23, 2026

Heart Eyes certainly isn’t a film that wants to reinvent the slasher genre - it just wants to have a good time, and in turn, for you to have a good time.

And that I did.

Plot

When two coworkers have to survive the Heart Eyes Killer on Valentine's Day, the two have to find out who it is.

Good Points

Fun blend of rom-com and slasher tones
Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding have solid chemistry
Self-aware humour
Doesn’t take itself too seriously

Bad Points

Predictable plot from start to finish
Weak final reveal
Doesn’t do anything particularly new

My Thoughts on Heart Eyes

Quite Generic, but still..

Heart Eyes doesn’t seem to care too much about reinventing the slasher formula or flipping the rom-com structure on its head, because it just throws both together and commits to it, so if you want something clever and fresh, this one isn’t it.

But if you want to watch something to see how far it leans into the idea, it might have some stuff you like, as it leans pretty far, without ever bringing much new to the table, but I found it fun enough despite this.

It all works just enough

Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding do a decent job holding the centre, and Holt’s Ally could’ve been quite irritating in the wrong hands, because the whole “love is dead” angle is familiar, and it does push a bit hard at times, but there’s enough vulnerability there to stop it from feeling completely one-note.

Mason Gooding also puts in a decent enough performance - confident, slightly cocky, always ready with a line - and again it’s predictable, but it works OK because he doesn’t overplay it too much.

The killer’s the draw here

No one’s really here for anything other then the killer though, are they?

The Heart Eyes Killer himself is the main event, and the film knows it as much as we do, where the design of the killer, which is always important is cheap, creepy, slightly ridiculous, but also fairly memorable, and it fits the tone perfectly.

The kills too are messy, exaggerated, and clearly designed to entertain rather than shock, and it goes in hard at times without trying to make it feel too disturbing, though I suspect that depends on you, as the viewer.

But I enjoyed how it keeps things fun instead of uncomfortable, which lines up with everything else the film is doing, where there are a few moments that genuinely stand out where because they fully commit to how ridiculous they are.

It’s blood-as-spectacle, and it works fine.

It balances horror and comedy, mostly

Tonally, it sits somewhere between slasher and parody.

Some of the humour lands well, especially when it leans into the absurdity of the situation, while at other times, it feels a bit safe, like it could’ve pushed the joke further but pulls back, and that unevenness shows up throughout.

But overall, it holds together better than I expected, while the plot is exactly what you think it is, and once it gets going, you can pretty much map out where it’s heading - there’s no real effort to misdirect or build a proper mystery - so it’s pretty straightforward to the point where it almost feels intentional.

The reveal

The ending is where it stumbles a bit for me, and after everything builds up, the final reveal just doesn’t connect as it should - it’s not terrible, but it’s fairly underwhelming, with no real payoff that matches the energy of everything leading up to it.

But even with that issue and a few other little issues, I still had a good time with it, and as long as you go in with the right epexectations, you have some thing to enjoy here, I think.

It has a kind of charm in how committed it is to being exactly what it is - a bloody, slightly ridiculous mix of romance and slasher.