Synopsis
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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Cast
- Emma ThompsonKate Jones
- Pierce BrosnanRichard Jones
- Celia ImriePen
- Timothy SpallJerry
- Louise BourgoinManon Fontaine
- Laurent LafitteVincent Kruger
- Tuppence MiddletonSophie Jones
- Jack WilkinsonMatt Jones
- Marisa BerensonClothilde
- Olivier ChantreauJean-Baptiste Durain
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
The by-the-numbers plotting is a little clunky but there's fun to be had in the cast's easy chemistry. - 60
TheWrap
The Love Punch gets by in no small part thanks to the individual charms and collective chemistry between leads Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 50
Variety
A creaky heist-caper comedy that hopes to get by on sunny amiability. - 50
The Dissolve
Thompson and Brosnan really are fine romantic foils. They deserve a better movie to trade barbs in. They deserve better barbs to trade. - 50
Village Voice
The Love Punch is too sunny and self-effacing to be truly toxic. - 40
The Guardian
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. - 40
The Telegraph
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.
