Kiss the three (TripleUSA / 2025). address: Chad Hartigan. Script: Ethan Ogilby. filming: Singing Haw Yam. edition: Autumn dia. ejaculate: Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer-King, Robbie Cruz, Jabuki Young-White, Josh Segarra, Julia Sweeney. eligible: Suitable for people over 13 years old. distributor: BF Paris. period: 111 minutes. Our opinion: normal.
Kiss the three It suffers from a kind of cinematic malaise: it believes or wants to be one kind of film, but it ends up being a completely different kind. Too melodramatic to be considered an enjoyable romantic comedy; With Little Journey to be a reflective generational study.
Chad Hartigan’s film has the best intentions and a lot of ambition in its proposition, from a thematic standpoint. It wants to be fun, it wants to move, and it wants to say something about the romantic relationships of young people today. But these intentions remain prey to a hesitant tone, which can be guessed The result of a short circuit between the text and staging and editing decisions.
There is some hint of provocation at the beginning Kiss the threewhich then disappears after more conventional development. The original title, which translates as “threesome” in the sexual sense of the term, and the poster, which shows the faces of the three attractive leads close together, promote a film that is more lighthearted than the typical Hollywood romantic comedy. This intention persists for only two scenes, until it disappears within a plot full of the kind of twists that raise the stakes of any classic soap opera script.
From the beginning, it’s clear that Connor (Jonah Hauer-King) is madly in love with Olivia (Zoey Deutch), a former co-worker whose interest in him is difficult to decipher. When he goes to visit her at the restaurant where she works with his best friend, Connor ends up chatting with Jenny (Ruby Cruz), the girl who stood him up on a date. Partly to make her lover, who is at the restaurant with his wife, jealous, and also because she is jealous of not being the center of Connor’s attention, Olivia joins the conversation and the three of them end up dancing, and then to his house, where the three-way sexual encounter that announces the film’s title takes place.
From then on, everything that happens enters into a world Brakeso it is best to avoid it. Suffice it to say That first glimpse of a humorous exploration of how young people of this age experience love and sex is replaced by a highly dramatic narrative.Who wants to be surprised by twists that have been seen a thousand times. Leave the alternative path to end up on a more traditional path.
The indecisiveness of tone, in a variety where the humor works only occasionally, is as evident as the plot twists. The film wants to be modern in its outlook and have some good moments, especially in how it reshapes the relationship between the two women who would be rivals in the traditional story.
On the other hand, Ethan Ogilby’s script reads like a male fantasy, leaving the heroines without a more complete definition, while the hero is presented in a rather subtle way. Connor, for all his faults, has the sensibilities of a new generation of men and a non-toxic demeanor.
Without much originality in staging, the greatest value Kiss the three They are its heroes. Deutch’s charisma is already well known and he manages to command the screen, even when he has to work with a more sketchy character. Hauer-King adds charm to his character, as if to make up for problems with the plot, while Cruise displays a naturalness in his interpretation and an ability to generate sympathy that elevates a rather unhappy role.