Love Me Love Me Review: A Cring-Worthy Romance That Felt Never-Ending
Love Me Love Me recently landed on Amazon Prime Video on February 13, 2026, just in time for Valentine’s season.
Set against the stylish backdrop of Milan, Italy, the film follows intense themes of jealousy, secrets, and betrayal. In Love Me Love Me, it follows familiar tropes of the teen romance genre and includes underground MMA fighting.
It’s also worth mentioning that the film includes bloody scenes due to MMA fighting and carries strong sexual themes, although nothing explicit is shown on screen. Viewers who are sensitive to violence or mature content should keep this in mind.
Here’s my full review of the film.
Rundown of Love Me Love Me – What you need to know:
- Genre: Romance / Drama
- Stars: Mia Jenkins, Pepe Barroso, Luca Melucci, Andrea Guo
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Creator: Roger Kumble
- Release date: 2026
What is Love Me Love Me about?
This teen romance drama follows June White, who has recently moved to Milan, Italy, for her mother’s career. She lives a fairly simple life at first, but everything changes when she starts at Milan St. Mary’s School. She has to adapt to her new surrounding and make new friends, but it isn’t easy.
It’s not long until she meets two very different boys: Will Johnson and his best friend, James Carter. June begins to grow closer to Will but she can’t help being attracted to James either.
However, she knows she shouldn’t be with him because he’s the cocky, popular, guy who is into MMA fighting. Despite trying her best to stay away from him, June becomes entangled in his risky lifestyle. When she grows closer to James, rumours spread and she becomes a target at school, June begins to regret the choices she has made. It’s centres on a forbidden romance story.
What I Liked about it:
I enjoyed the relationship between Will and June, although it aoon turned platonic. Will seems like a good friend, particularly to James, and I liked his warm gesture to June throughout the movie espeically since she joined his class and was unsure about her new environment.
Watching this brought back memories of my time in Milan. It’s such a beautiful city and it felt vibrant in this movie.
What I didn’t like about it:
It was cringe-worthy from the very first scene. I haven’t read the books, but the general consensus online is that the story did not translate well to the screen. And I didn’t much enjoy it either. I found the film so cringe-worthy that I genuinely considered turning it off halfway through.
The dialogue feels forced and I was bored due to the trope in this film. It seems I’m not the only one who feels this way. Much of the dialogue was painfully off-putting, particularly James Carter’s lines. Comments like, “Is Snow White too much of a virgin to look at a pair of abs?” or “Snow White saying the Lord’s name in vain again?” and even “Is little princess afraid of a bike?.” I’ve honestly had enough of the enemies-to-lovers trope where the “jerk” male lead uses cringe nicknames and smug one-liners to get under his future love interest’s skin. It feels unoriginal. Also, the dialogue felt robotic, and the script felt weak.
I had hoped there would be a spark between June and James, but there unfortunately wasn’t. James doesn’t genuinely attempt to win her over.
The film’s pacing was very sluggish. It rushes through character development and relationships.
Overall Thoughts:
In recent years, Amazon Prime Video has built a reputation for successfully adapting teen romance novels, with titles like Maxton Hall – The World Between Us and The Summer I Turned Pretty finding strong audiences. Those adaptations managed to capture the chemistry that fans love. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case this time round.
I definitely went into this expecting something not too far off the Culpa Mía from the My Fault series, but I was bitterly disappointed. This film felt low-budget and mediocre.
Love Me Love Me is a dramatic love triangle that just didn’t deliver well. Overall, I just couldn’t connect with the story.
