Blind Dating review

Love really is blind in this inoffensive romcom

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No, Cilla Black hasn’t broken Hollywood – though she may as well have given the froth and frivolity of this Chris Pine time-passer.

Shelved for three years, it’s been released now – surprise, surprise – to coast on his Star Trek glory.

As a blind man lovesick for an Indian woman, Pine’s charismatic turn is easily the best thing about this affable if vaguely schizoid mix of comedy (be it gross-out or otherwise), romance and cross-cultural friction.

Jane Seymour looks bewildered in a therapist role that requires her to compulsively drop her skirt, but this is harmless, breezy fluff.

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.