The Love Punch. Image shows from L to R: Kate (Emma Thompson), Richard (Pierce Brosnan)
The Love Punch

The Love Punch

  • 2014 film

A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them. Stars Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Louise Bourgoin and more.

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Film review: The Love Punch

The Love Punch is not great art and the outcome is achingly predictable, but the on-screen chemistry of Brosnan and Emma Thompson fizzes and there are some hearty laughs amidst the nonsense.

Damon Smith, The Nottingham Post, 17th April 2014

David Gritten reviews The Love Punch

One can make a strong case against The Love Punch (and I think I just did) while still warming to it. For all its imperfections, it's likable, generous-hearted and uncomplicated good fun. I can't imagine anyone under the age of 50 caring for it much; but for those old enough to remember post-war British comedy when it was mostly cheerful and spirited, without a touch of cleverness or irony in sight, this is a bit of a surprise treat.

David Gritten, Saga Magazine, 17th April 2014

The Love Punch review

The cast might well have done it just for the sake of a holiday on the French riviera, but at least this cheerfully daft adventure canters along amiably.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 17th April 2014

The Love Punch is a British farce starring Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Celia Imrie and Timothy Spall, four cheerful Garden of England pensioners (Emma? You're only 55!) stealing a diamond necklace in the south of France in order to haul themselves out of impending penury. With its extreme mugging, it will feel either insultingly ridiculous or a simple amusement depending on how drunk you are.

Cinema can be perfunctory on the theme of love at the best of times, but Brosnan and Thompson play out their romance as though it were a game of charades. If they were wearing feather boas they would be winking over them until their eyelids dislocated, having the time of their lives in a champagne-and-trifle dreamworld while we loll, longing for literally anything else. A movie about Stalin? The Foreign Legion? Donald Duck?

Antonia Quirke, The Financial Times, 16th April 2014

Film review: 'The Love Punch'

Despite the sniffy critical reaction that presumably awaits The Love Punch, audiences may nevertheless respond when the pic goes out in Blighty over Easter weekend.

Boston Herald, 16th April 2014

Film review: The Love Punch (1 star)

Unlike Susanne Bier's vastly superior Love Is All You Need - also starring Brosnan - this is one last tango neither earned nor warranted.

Daniel Green, Cine-Vue, 16th April 2014

The Love Punch review

You just have to go with it. This is pure unadulterated wish-fulfilment for the over-50s with a sunset ending that could have been sponsored by Saga Holidays. But, the film is just as likely to appeal to anyone in the mood for a bit of light-hearted escapism in the company of two hugely charismatic stars. They just don't make them like they used to. Except, occasionally, they do.

Stella Papamichael, Digital Spy, 14th April 2014

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