Review: ‘Love Me’ (2025), starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun

February 2, 2025

by Carla Hay

Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun in “Love Me” (Photo courtesy of Bleecker Street)

“Love Me” (2025)

Directed by Andrew Zuchero and Sam Zuchero

Culture Representation: Taking place in an unspecified part of the universe, the sci-fi dramatic film “Love Me” features two inanimate characters who appear in human form as a white woman and an Asian man.

Culture Clash: After an apocalypse has destroyed Earth’s entire human population, a satellite and a buoy with artificial intelligence fall in love with each other and try to live as manifested forms of two humans who previously existed.

Culture Audience: “Love Me” will appeal mainly to people who are fans of the movie’s headliners and who don’t mind watching a witless sci-fi movie.

“Love Me” wastes its potential to be an interesting sci-fi romantic drama about a satellite and a buoy that fall in love with each other and appear in human form after an apocalypse has destroyed Earth. This incoherent film is dull and pointless. Although the acting is serviceable, there are too many repetitive scenes that go nowhere.

Written and directed by brothers Andrew Zuchero and Sam Zuchero, “Love Me” had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Although “Love Me” is only 91 minutes long, it feels like longer because of the film’s sluggish pace where not much of anything happens. Fans of Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun (the movie’s only two cast members) will be disappointed that these two cast members are seen on screen in their real human forms for less than half of the film.

“Love Me” takes place in an unspecified time period after the apocalypse. A buoy (voiced by Stewart), which has artificial intelligence, is stuck in an unnamed body of water when the buoy is discovered by a satellite (voiced by Yeun), which is looking for forms of life. The buoy and the satellite are attracted to each other.

The buoy looks at old YouTube videos and sees a live-in American couple named Deja (played by Stewart) and Liam (played by Yeun), who documented their lives on social media. It takes a while for the movie to get to the point in the story where the buoy and the satellite appear in human form as this couple, so that they can replicate the human experience of being in a romantic love relationship.

Before and during this transformation, “Love Me” consists of a lot of repetitive breakups and makeups between this outer-space couple. If you think it’s entertaining to watch arguments from characters that are machines and A.I.- generated imagery, then “Love Me” is the movie for you. Everyone else should steer clear of this time-wasting flop.

Bleecker Street released “Love Me” in U.S. cinemas on January 31, 2025.

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