Chongdol Dew Sukulworapat and Noppharat Ramwong’s “Love Stuck” riffs on a time-loop romance. It tries to amp up charm, innocence, and relatability while invoking sci-fi elements. The mix of science fiction and romance doesn’t yield great results. It’s an inchoate balance that is not as arresting and playful as it should be. There’s no sparkle, just a routine, repetitive, and colorless string of loop-like incidents that promises inventiveness but delivers little. It’s too unsatisfying and the thinly stretched narrative keeps going in circles. This doesn’t work despite it being the undergirding conceit.

A story like this demands surprise and innovation, formally weaving it within the intricacies of recurring narrative elements and tricks. The film rests on romance as crafting a tender, strong, and binding way out of the destabilizing mess of the time loop. It becomes a soothing, grounding presence amidst the suffocating tension of the situation.