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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.
The Love Punch
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- France,
- United Kingdom
- 2014
- · 94m
Director
Joel Hopkins
Cast
Emma Thompson,
Pierce Brosnan,
Celia Imrie,
Timothy Spall,
Louise Bourgoin,
Laurent Lafitte
Genre
Comedy
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind the fraud...
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What are critics saying?
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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.
50
Variety
A creaky heist-caper comedy that hopes to get by on sunny amiability.
50
Village Voice by Abby Garnett
The Love Punch is too sunny and self-effacing to be truly toxic.
50
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.
50
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.
40
Time Out London by Cath Clarke
This Brit comedy has the watchability factor of a mediocre TV sitcom.
40
Total Film
The Love Punch makes a virtue of its leads’ considerable charm and gorgeous French locations but is tonally wonky, comedically creaky and confuses light-as-a-soufflé with just plain silly.
40
The Telegraph by Tim Robey
This cast of national institutions make fools of themselves with a lack of vanity that’s theoretically fun, but there’s playing to the gallery, and then there’s clambering up there to wiggle your bits at them.
40
The Guardian by Henry Barnes
Sometimes it works - Brosnan and Thompson are sedately charming, Spall and Imrie are naturally funny together - but there's only so much humour you can squeeze out of Pierce's dicky prostate.
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