---
name: "Jonathan Eusebio"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-eusebio"
fi1m_id: "jonathan-eusebio"
imdb_id: "nm0262389"
tmdb_id: 55081
wikidata_id: "Q127504599"
roles: ["Fight choreographer","Director"]
born: "15 September 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-22T03:06:10.977055+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jonathan Eusebio

## Identity

Jonathan Eusebio

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonathan-eusebio
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonathan-eusebio
- **IMDb ID:** nm0262389
- **TMDB ID:** 55081
- **Wikidata ID:** Q127504599
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Eusebio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127504599, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262389/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55081

Fight choreographer and director. Born 15 September 1973 in Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Fight choreographer, Director
- **Born:** 15 September 1973, Canada
- **Active:** 2002–present
- **Also known as:** Jonathan (Jojo) Eusebio
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 1 acting, 1 directing, 6 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 50 (3), 2010s 70 (4), 2020s 40 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 61 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 5, Adventure 4, Thriller 4, Science Fiction 3, Comedy 2, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,622m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Eusebio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127504599, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262389/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55081

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Love Hurts*](https://film.one/film/love-hurts.md) (40)

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## Fi1m on Jonathan Eusebio

> Jonathan Eusebio understands how an unlikely fighter can be funny without stopping for a joke. His feature debut, *Love Hurts*, wastes that skill on a romance with too little feeling and a plot with too much explaining.

In *Love Hurts* (2025), Ke Huy Quan plays Marvin Gable, an estate agent whose former profession was killing people. His mild manners make his resourcefulness in a fight funny, while Quan’s sincerity gives us a reason to care about the man doing the fighting. Eusebio draws an appealing performance from him but cannot give it a convincing love story. This is a disappointing feature debut, and even its 83 minutes leave too much time between the pleasures.

Eusebio reached feature directing through stunt performance, fight choreography and second-unit work, spending years alongside David Leitch and Chad Stahelski. His credits include fight choreography on *John Wick* (2014) and second-unit direction on *Deadpool 2* (2018) and *Birds of Prey* (2020). Those are useful credentials for handling bodies in motion, but they do not establish who can sustain a whole film. *Love Hurts* makes that distinction uncomfortably clear.

His approach to action begins with the cast’s physical abilities and the characters they are playing. We enjoyed Quan’s fights because his quick movement and inventive use of weapons make Marvin’s resourcefulness amusing. Cinematographer Bridger Nielson keeps the physical work clear enough to appreciate, although the encounters rarely feel dangerous. There is room for both comedy and threat here, and Eusebio settles too readily for the former.

The trouble is what surrounds the fights. Criminal explanations repeatedly hold up *Love Hurts*, and the courtship offers little reason to care when the action stops. Quan supplies warmth, but the film seems to expect that warmth to make the romance persuasive by itself. Knowing how to keep a confrontation amusing has not yet translated into knowing how long to spend on people explaining themselves. If Eusebio returns to action romance, the first requirement is a couple worth watching before anyone picks up a weapon.

## Biography

Jonathan Eusebio, also known as Jojo Eusebio, is a Canadian-born American director, stunt coordinator and fight choreographer. He made his feature directorial debut with the action comedy *Love Hurts* (2025).

Eusebio began working as a stunt performer in the late 1990s. A founding member of 87Eleven Action Design, his credits as stunt performer, fight choreographer or stunt coordinator include *Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End* (2007), *300* (2007), *Iron Man 2* (2010), *The Avengers* (2012), *John Wick* (2014), *Doctor Strange* (2016), *Black Panther* (2018), *John Wick: Chapter 2* (2017) and *John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum* (2019). He has also served as second unit director on *Deadpool 2* (2018), *Birds of Prey* (2020) and *Violent Night* (2022).

Born on 15 September 1973 in Canada to parents of Filipino heritage, Eusebio trained in martial arts and holds a degree from the University of California, Irvine.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Time Machine* (2002), Fi1m 47, as Eloi — [page](https://film.one/film/the-time-machine.md)

### Directed (1)

- *Love Hurts* (2025), Fi1m 40, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/love-hurts.md)

### Crew (6) — the average rests on these

- *John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum* (2019), Fi1m 72, Fight Choreographer, Stunt Coordinator — [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum.md)
- *Deadpool 2* (2018), Fi1m 72, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/deadpool-2.md)
- *The Wolverine* (2013), Fi1m 64, Fight Choreographer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolverine.md)
- *Haywire* (2011), Fi1m 74, Fight Choreographer — [page](https://film.one/film/haywire.md)
- *Dragonball Evolution* (2009), Fi1m 34, Stunt Coordinator — [page](https://film.one/film/dragonball-evolution.md)
- *Idiocracy* (2006), Fi1m 68, Stunts — [page](https://film.one/film/idiocracy.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *I Know What You Did Last Summer* (2025), Stunt Coordinator
- *Love Hurts* (2025), Director — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/love-hurts.md)
- *The Fall Guy* (2024), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fall-guy.md)
- *Violent Night* (2022), Second Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator
- *Obi-Wan Kenobi* (2022), series, Stunt Coordinator
- *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021), Stunt Coordinator — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-resurrections.md)
- *Kate* (2021), Second Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator
- *Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)* (2020), Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
- *John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum* (2019), Fight Choreographer, Stunt Coordinator — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum.md)
- *Deadpool 2* (2018), Second Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/deadpool-2.md)
- *Black Panther* (2018), Stunt Coordinator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/black-panther.md)
- *John Wick: Chapter 2* (2017), Stunt Coordinator — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick-chapter-2.md)
- *Doctor Strange* (2016), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-strange.md)
- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows* (2016), Stunt Coordinator
- *The Last Witch Hunter* (2015), Stunt Coordinator
- *Hitman: Agent 47* (2015), Stunt Coordinator
- *John Wick* (2014), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick.md)
- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (2014), Stunt Coordinator — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2014.md)
- *Escape Plan* (2013), as (Uncredited) · Stunt Coordinator
- *The Wolverine* (2013), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolverine.md)
- *The Bourne Legacy* (2012), as Guard — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-legacy.md)
- *The Avengers* (2012), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-avengers.md)
- *Haywire* (2011), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/haywire.md)
- *Conan the Barbarian* (2011), Stunt Double
- *The Expendables* (2010), Fight Choreographer
- *The Twilight Saga: Eclipse* (2010), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-twilight-saga-eclipse.md)
- *Iron Man 2* (2010), Fight Choreographer — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/iron-man-2.md)
- *Dragonball Evolution* (2009), Stunt Coordinator — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/film/dragonball-evolution.md)
- *Never Back Down* (2008), as Dak Ho · Stunt Coordinator, Fight Choreographer
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End* (2007), Stunts — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-at-worlds-end.md)
- *Fetch* (2007), Stunts
- *Shooter* (2007), as K-9 Cop #2
- *300* (2007), Stunts — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/300.md)
- *Idiocracy* (2006), Stunts — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/idiocracy.md)
- *Feast* (2005), Stunts
- *Serenity* (2005), Stunts — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/serenity.md)
- *Max Havoc: Curse Of The Dragon* (2004), Fight Choreographer
- *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen* (2003), Stunts — Fi1m 36, [page](https://film.one/film/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.md)
- *Austin Powers in Goldmember* (2002), Stunts — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/austin-powers-in-goldmember.md)
- *Blade II* (2002), Stunts
- *The Time Machine* (2002), as Eloi — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/the-time-machine.md)
- *Kung Pow: Enter the Fist* (2002), as Gang Fighter #5 · Stunts

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