hiskih This film about a famous British pornographer has to be compared with the late Milos Forman's masterpiece "The People vs. Larry Flynt" and it loses in every way. Throughout watching it, I kept thinking: why do the filmmakers want us to be interested about Paul Raymond and the other drug-addicted lowlifes? The film provides no answer, Mr. Raymond is left a shallow character who seems to have no opinion about anything except his business empire.The drug aspect is vastly over-emphasized. Every second scene has someone snorting cocaine, among other substances. It was a big dramatical mistake to reveal in the beginning that PR's daughter will die in a self-inflicted way, after which we have to wait a hour and a half for her totally predictable demise. I almost fell asleep after the first hour.The only thing well done is period look. After gloriously black-and white 1950s, the 1960s and 1970s scenes look like actual Sixties and Seventies color films. My respect to the photographer, but none to the scriptwriters or the editor - the pace manages to be at the same time hurried and very boring.

stephen-lambe There's an excellent story in here somewhere, and this movie does its best to tell a 40 year story in little more than an hour and a half, and while it's an enjoyable ride, it's all too sketchy to be really satisfying. The tone and performances are great. Coogan is very good and his improvisatory talents bring out similar qualities in many of the rest of the cast. Presumably a talent for improve is why actors like Chris Addison and James Lance were chosen, but even Tamsin Egerton has a good bash at it. The tone is odd in places - it's a drama with jokes but the cast has been plucked out of British stand up and television comedy, so we feel that we should be laughing more. Another reviewer made the comment that he couldn't understand why the cinema audience laughed in the cocaine / childbirth scene, as it is so serious. The point is that it is both tragic and hilarious - a scene and film CAN be both. Check out the deleted scenes on the DVD for some of the funnier but less appropriate scenes. Oh, and Chris Addison's beard is dreadful. Overall, though, it doesn't really hold together as a drama. None of the characters are fleshed out enough for us to care about them enough, but it's a great ride nonetheless.

Moobee this is a movie filled up with event and facts but no characters, no detail on characters' world, they are acting on the surface, the script is the problem, it should be worked into textures and layers of these colourful characters rather than just covered them with events and what's happen, they could edit some scenes out which director just show what's happen but not take them further to a better storytelling; stories happened to build the characters so we viewers can sympathize with them. You don't feel for any of the characters here. it's such a shame. this movie has no angle to this special group of people.....All the emotion is not quite there, never gets to the point and ends at the surfaces. the film wasted these casting since they can do more than what's in the film. We all know how well they can act for such a colourful Raymond's world.

Gordon-11 This film is about a controversial adult entertainment tycoon who made a fortune in the West End of London decades ago."The Look of Love" is a biopic about an interesting character, it could have had so much potential to be portraying morally questionable individuals in glamorous and exotic settings. The film concentrates on Paul Raymond' love life and his adult magazine, with little character and plot development. Characters are so poorly introduced that I got so confused by simple stuff like how many children he had. The end result is that I didn't care for any of the characters. The abundance of nudity was not shown artistically either, as other similar films somehow managed."The Look of Love" is long and boring due to its a poorly executed plot. It is a degrading mess that I feel sorry for the people involved, especially the nude actresses. And I think the film is such a misnomer, Paul Raymond's on screen character is about every bit love does not look like.