A Thin Line Between Love and Hate Reviews
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A thin line? Not in this case.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film4
Tiresome stuff, bearable only if you can overlook the questionable premise and find something to like in Lawrence's Eddie Murphy-lite turn.
Top Critic
The script lacks wit and depth, while Lawrence's direction is meandering and undramatic, full of showy, over-elaborate camera movements.
TheMovieReport.com
A ponderous vanity project that is unfunny and, worst of all, just plain boring.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Too serious to be a comedy, too flippant to be a thriller, it often feels like a backhanded act of penance for the misogynist humor in the star's comedy act.
[Lawrence is] a charming, gifted comic with a killer smile, but he's way out of his depth in this Fatal Attraction knockoff, which he also co-wrote and stars in.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Boxoffice Magazine
In showing the importance of monogamy, the film is profound enough that it could lead couples to reevaluate themselves; women will look at their new men a bit more quizzically, and men will be less likely to say "I love you" unless they mean it.
Filmcritic.com
Any movie with a bar called Chocolate City can't be all bad, right?
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| Original Score: 3/5
San Francisco Examiner
[Lawrence] doesn't seem to know that his protagonist is a deceptive, frivolous, fast-talking and surprisingly stupid womanizer.
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate takes its name from the Persuaders 1971 hit that has been re-recorded by the Pretenders, Annie Lennox and H-Town. You could have just as much fun simply playing one of them and skipping the movie.
| Original Score: 2/4
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Lawrence the director should have pulled the reigns in on Lawrence the star, as his constant mugging is both out of character and ridiculously exaggerated.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Cinematter
Martin Lawrence bites off a bit more than he can chew with his four roles in this haphazard comedy. As a result, nothing seems quite focused.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Once it gets going, A Thin Line is moderately entertaining, but, oh my, that first hour...
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| Original Score: 4/10
The screenplay is credited to four writers, and its unevenness argues that none of them were on the same wavelength.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Austin Chronicle
Sexual stereotyping provides the grist for much of Martin Lawrence's humor and, for the most part, it's on target.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
