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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSave a weak police pursuit, events are earnestly depicted and involvingly played, even if the period re-creation at times feels overly burnished. Still, Love and Honor suffices as old-fashioned, pie-in-the-sky entertainment.
- 50ObserverRex ReedObserverRex ReedLiam Hemsworth, the Ben & Jerry Flavor of the Month, is a sexy Australian centerfold without a trace of an accent who can actually act. His love interest is Teresa Palmer, a fellow Aussie who recently starred in the zombie flick "Warm Bodies." They may be camera-ready smoothies who take their clothes off often enough to keep the teen dweebs drooling.
- 42Film.comWilliam GossFilm.comWilliam GossEvery scene of Danny Mooney’s directorial debut is brightly lit, every car squeaky clean, every moral dilemma transparent, with evidently thorough period detail undone by production values that lend even the riots an idyllic glow, while foiling the potential for truly dramatic conflict with leaden dialogue and predictable changes of heart.
- 40Time OutTime OutIt’s a lightweight drama filled with heavyweight war-is-hell monologues, delivered by a cast that lacks the gravity to sell them.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickLove and Honor may be politically clueless, but Hemsworth and the student journalist he hooks up with (fellow Aussie Teresa Palmer of “Warm Bodies’’) do make an undeniably attractive couple.
- 25Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe deceptions and romances carry on as one might expect, all while the film makes some attempt at exploring the cultural shifts of the time period.
- 20Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerBetween the cast's modern hairstyles and attitude, and the paint-by-numbers set design and period costumes...the action comes across as a prolonged, dreary game of dress-up. That director Danny Mooney shoots his material like a TV show doesn't help.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierHemsworth has presence, but he also represents this film’s biggest problem: It feels like a bunch of good-looking kids putting on a show.
- 20The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe film dresses up pretty young things in fatigues and retro T-shirts for a story so clichéd and brainless that it’s almost more disturbing than laughable.