Love Me Like You Do [2025]

The evening started with a vertical drama adaption of Jane Eyre but after ten episodes we were asked to pay and we ended up finding an alternative in this film named very pointedly after that Ellie Goulding song from the 50 Shades of Grey movie. This movie had exactly one thing in common with that film, the lead actor looks a little like a discount Jamie Dornan with even less charisma than he had in that film and with a catalog of creepy sex looks. The leads had zero chemistry, which really made for a lot of the joy in this film.

The plot of this movie is pretty much a smoothie of vertical drama tropes: woman finds her dirtbag husband cheating, hooks up with a guy she thinks is an escort but it actually her stepbrother, they're both rich and kind of in competition for some big company, she gets bullied by mean girls, her ex-fiancee comes into the pictures creating a love triangle where she seemingly has no interest in either of them, she ends up with the first guy. Standard. The only thing that set this movie apart (derogatory) is that the leads hook up in the very beginning because she was roofied by some guy at a bar and he has sex with her anyway. That's a pivotal villain movie right there, and yet he's the romantic lead. Thankfully, he never acts in any redeeming way whatsoever and, as I said, they have no chemistry. In the final act when she says goodbye to her ex-fiancee, there is more romantic tension in their hug than in any moment between her and her rapist stepbrother.  

This movie really dragged plot-wise but there was enough bad acting, cringe lines, and inappropriate music choices to make it fun enough.

Spoon Rating: 6