Entertainment Weekly by Stephan Lee

There’s nothing remotely original about the premise, and jokes about prostates feel more pandering than funny, but the leads make this dumb romantic caper watchable.

TheWrap by James Rocchi

The Love Punch gets by in no small part thanks to the individual charms and collective chemistry between leads Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson.

Empire by Anna Smith

The by-the-numbers plotting is a little clunky but there's fun to be had in the cast's easy chemistry.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

It’s all third-rate “Pink Panther” stuff, and Brosnan, eager to play down his 007 bona fides, overcorrects.

Miami Herald by Connie Ogle

This movie couldn’t be more fantastical if dragons swooped down and incinerated London, Paris and the south of France.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore

An empty-headed nothing of a caper comedy.

Village Voice by Abby Garnett

The Love Punch is too sunny and self-effacing to be truly toxic.

The Dissolve by Chris Klimek

Thompson and Brosnan really are fine romantic foils. They deserve a better movie to trade barbs in. They deserve better barbs to trade.

Variety by Charles Gant

A creaky heist-caper comedy that hopes to get by on sunny amiability.

The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

Recognizable human behavior is not this film’s forte -- which wouldn’t be a problem if something else would take its place but Punch never finds the right tone for the heterogeneous material, with sweetly melodramatic scenes alternating with high drama, some light action and farce.