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- MOVIE page: Welcome to the Punch (2013)
- Rate: 6.1/10 total 7,983 votes
- Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
- Runtime: 99 min | 100 min
- Filming Location: Three Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, Bow, London, England, UK
- Budget: $8,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross: $6,787 (USA) (5 April 2013)
- Director: Eran Creevy
- Stars: James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Harry Escott
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
- Plot Keyword: London England | Police Detective | Written By Director
- (in alphabetical order)
- Eran Creevy written by
Welcome to the Punch (2013) Synopsis :
Ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man hes always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both need to solve in order to survive........Goofs: Continuity: When Max Lewinsky drains body fluids out of his knee using a syringe he is smoking a cigarette. After he drained the body fluids out of his knee he sprays the fluid into a pan and then taking a final smoke of his cigarette. The cigarette he throws into the pan with his body fluids appears to be taller than when he took the final draw.
Plot: Ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives his nemesis, detective Max Lewinsky, one last chance to catch the man he's always been after. Full summary » | »
Story: Former criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both need to solve in order to survive. Written byAnonymous
Produced By:
- Rory Aitken known as producer
- Jack Arbuthnott known as co-producer
- James Atherton known as executive producer
- Maria Cestone known as executive producer
- Vicki Cherkas known as co-executive producer
- Molly Conners known as executive producer
- Stuart Ford known as executive producer
- Ronald Guttman known as co-executive producer
- Brian Kavanaugh-Jones known as producer
- Hakan Kousetta known as co-executive producer
- Daniel LeBlanc known as co-executive producer
- Xavier Marchand known as executive producer
- Liza Marshall known as executive producer
- Jan Pace known as executive producer
- Ben Pugh known as producer
- Sarah Johnson Redlich known as executive producer
- Ridley Scott known as executive producer
- Andrew Warren known as co-producer
- Christopher Woodrow known as executive producer
- James McAvoy known as Max Lewinsky
- Mark Strong known as Jacob Sternwood
- Andrea Riseborough known as Sarah Hawks
- Johnny Harris known as Dean Warns
- Daniel Mays known as Nathan Bartnick
- David Morrissey known as Thomas Geiger
- Peter Mullan known as Roy Edwards
- Natasha Little known as Jane Badham
- Daniel Kaluuya known as Juka Ogadowa
- Ruth Sheen known as Iris Warns
- Jason Flemyng known as Harvey Crown
- Elyes Gabel known as Ruan Sternwood
- Robert Portal known as Robert Wiseman
- Jason Maza known as Luke
- Jay Simpson known as Barber
- Seun Shote known as Joseph Ojogo
- Dannielle Brent known as Karen Edwards
- David Michaels known as Henry Callaghan
- Johnny Palmiero known as Officer in Cagoule
- Jonell Elliott known as Chief Flight Attendant (as Jonnell Elliott)
- Simon Allix known as Flight Attendant
- Claire Hearnden known as Flight Attendant
- Amanda Rawnsley known as Desk Clerk (as Amanda Rawsley)
- John White known as Security Guard
- Tom Turner known as Club Owner
- Simon Gregor known as Moustache
- Jordan Long known as Man with Flowers
- Alastair Cumming known as Spin Doctor
- Cathy Murphy known as Nurse
- Lauren Garnham known as Journalist
- Steve Oram known as Journalist
- Ellie Darcey-Alden known as 12-year Old Girl
- Leo Fenwick known as Armed Airport Policeman
- Joseph Cinko known as Young Boy (as Joe Cinko)
- Ray De-Haan known as The Wrong Man (as Ray De Haan)
- Steven Borrie known as News Camera Person (uncredited)
- Matt Butcher known as Hospital Visitor (uncredited)
- Ginny Dee known as Hospital Visitor (uncredited)
- Tracey Greenwood known as Hospital Administrator (uncredited)
- Lee Nicholas Harris known as Paramedic (uncredited)
- Andy Joy known as Street Footballer (uncredited)
- George Keywood known as George - Young Boy (uncredited)
- Chonradee Kulthap known as Cleaner (uncredited)
- Matthew David McCarthy known as Doctor (uncredited)
- Pete Meads known as TV Cameraman (uncredited)
- Nasir Mohamed known as Detective (uncredited)
- Mike Parish known as Reporter (uncredited)
- Theresa Pope known as Doctor (uncredited)
- Elise Quevedo known as Political Journalist (uncredited)
- Juley Ross known as Journalist (uncredited)
- Andrew Turner known as Hospital Porter (uncredited)
- Kelvin Wise known as Armed Response Unit (uncredited)
Production Companies:
- Worldview Entertainment
- Between The Eyes
- Automatik Entertainment
- Scott Free Productions
MPAA: Rated R for violence and language
Welcome to the Punch (2013) Review by rutvig from United Kingdom
Welcome to the Punch...I think...
So, I actually managed to get to the advanced screening of Welcome tothe Punch this evening. Unfortunately, not a single one of my 150ishLondon based Facebook friends could accompany me to the free advancedpreview of the film and, at first, I must admit that I was verydisappointed. But now, I find myself wondering whether they knewsomething that I didn't!
Eran Creevy, writer and director sets the stage clearly with an openingsequence that plays out in London's glossy, glass and steel coveredCanary Wharf. It pulls us in straight away. We find ourselves almostimmediately invested in both the protagonist (James McAvoy as MaxLewinsky, detective cop chap whom we're meant to root for) andantagonist (a stern Mark Strong playing naughty bad guy, JacobSternwood), willing the story to tell us more about these twocharacters and the motivations behind their actions.
Borrowing heavily from the audio visual flare of Nolans bat films,particularly 'The Dark Knight', we're lead to believe that a stylishcat and mouse action / crime caper in the style of Heat awaits us. Ihonestly found myself asking whether this could actually be the British'Heat' after the first 10 minutes or so. Unfortunately, about 15minutes in, my first 'gripe' smacked me in the face (from McAvoy'sperformance no less!) This was followed by the second, and the third,and continued to do so until the end finally came, with a twist thatwas visible from a mile away and a convoluted plot that had to beexplained through exposition about 10 minutes before the film ended!
Relationships between characters felt shallow and under developed,making empathy nigh on impossible and ultimately, leaving me somewhatbored of the whole thing. None of the questions that the film raises inour minds as we progress through its 'narrative' are answered and I wasleft feeling cheated every time. The audience needs to know why certainthings are happening surely?; Sternwoods treatment of Lewinsky and viceversa, for one. So why not just tell us?
The cast deliver strong performances with what material they have barMcAvoy, surprisingly, who gave one too many clichéd reactions whichcaricatured our hero and made us less sympathetic to his plight.
For all of the films good moments it has its bad and ultimately, thebad simply overpowered the good. The little niggles (in the form ofconveniently placed tools, bad aim etc.) and wannabe Bourne esque plot,along with a serious lack of satisfaction from the 'bad guy' beingtrumped (because, technically, the 'bad guy wasn't) made the film a lotpoorer than it rightly deserved to be. Because from a technical standpoint, the film looks and sounds great. And the story still feelsinteresting, and I want to know more. But, with the serious lack ofcharacter development and exploration of their (implied) back stories,the film finds itself lying flat on its gun riddled back after its 99minute runtime.
Sadly another missed opportunity for British cinema.
Unless of course, this was designed as an Infernal Affairs style filmand a prequel / sequel fills in all the 'gaps'?
Welcome to the Punch opens nationwide on 27th March.
Rutvig Vaid
Welcome to the Punch (2013) Review by hannahbambridge1 from United Kingdom
Welcome To The Punch made me leave the cinema feeling very confused.Not because of the storyline, no. The tale is set in a blue-tinted,modern day London. Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) is still pretty hung upover being shot by bad guy Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) and gets hisone chance at revenge when Sternwood returns to London after his sonRuan (Elyes Gabel) is shot himself and severely injured. Simple enough.
Whilst the casting was strong, the acting solid (especially McAvoy'sportrayal of a man obsessed with revenge and filled with anger andself-hatred) and the film itself is shot beautifully, I couldn't helpbut leave feeling I'd been robbed of a real movie, a real ending.Whilst there are moments when unexpected gunshots will cause you jump agood couple of feet out the chair, there are only so many shoot-outsyou can sit through before wondering if anyone even knows how to use agun. Especially when the people using them are supposedly some of thebest marksmen around. So whilst there are tales of corruption,unexplained changes of heart and some shocking, upsetting moments, thestoryline becomes relatively predictable too early on for my liking andthe film seems to come to a sudden, abrupt end.
If you're looking to be entertained for just under a couple of hourswithout questioning too much, this is the film for you. If like me youexpect more from a movie with a cast and the budget shown, prepare toleave the screen feeling as if you've been poked a few times in thearm, hardly punched.
Welcome to the Punch (2013) Review by gradyharp from United States
Eran Creevy has written and directed a fast-paced, desperatelyconfusing film that is tough to decipher and in many ways scornscredibility. But if action packed dark thrillers fill the bill for youthen WELCOME TO THE PUNCH certainly will. Just be prepared that a lotof the story begs indulgence until the very end.
The film opens in medias res with a robbery where one perpetrator JacobSternwood (the always reliable Mark Strong is a very sold portrayal)wounds eager detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy looking a bit scruffywith a wannabe beard) in the leg. Three years later the story begins.Now 'former criminal' Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to Londonfrom his Icelandic hideaway when his son Ruan (the very handsome andsensitive and underused Elyes Gabel) is involved in a heist gone wrong.This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man hehas always been after. His partner is a female version of Max - SarahHanks (Andrea Riseborough)- and the tow are under the leadership ofdetectives Thomas Geiger (David Morrissey) and Harvey Crown (JasonFlemyng). Events begin to change with eh entry of a new criminal DeanWarns (Johnny Harris) and his presence begins to open doors as to whois really a good guy and who is a bad guy. As they face off, they startto uncover a deeper conspiracy Jacob and Max both need to solve inorder to survive.
The cast is uniformly fine, including the bit parts played by suchactors as Daniel Kaluuya, Ruth Sheen, Daniel Mays and Dannielle Brent.The story involves good cop/bad cop, transformation of images,political snafus, and a lot of firepower. The plot is often too muddledto decipher but the action is fast and the acting is super.
Grady Harp
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