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Welcome to the Punch

Welcome to the Punch

  • Status: Released
  • 15-03-2013
  • Runtime: 99 min
  • Score: 5.855
  • Vote count: 666

When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.

James McAvoy

Max Lewinsky

Mark Strong

Jacob Sternwood

David Morrissey

Thomas Geiger

Peter Mullan

Roy Edwards

Daniel Mays

Nathan Bartnick

Andrea Riseborough

Sarah Hawks

Daniel Kaluuya

Juka Ogadowa

Ruth Sheen

Iris Warns

Jason Flemyng

Harvey Crown

Elyes Gabel

Ruan Sternwood

Jason Maza

Luke

Johnny Harris

Dean Warns

Steve Oram

Journalist

Natasha Little

Jane Badham

Cathy Murphy

Nurse

Seun Shote

Joseph Ojogo

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When his son is shot, "Sternwood" (Mark Strong) has to return from his Icelandic hideaway to get to the bottom of it all. That puts him back squarely into the sights of cop "Lewinsky" (James McCoy) who has an old (and painful) grudge. What now ensues is a really formulaic and unimaginative drama, though, as both men realise that they are being played by a higher, manipulative and malevolent power and conclude they are better together. Despite a decent cast, including the usually reliable Andrea Riseborough ("Hawks") it all just fails to ignite. The dark, eerie, photography loses it's potency pretty quickly, as do the flashbacks filling in most of the backstory - leaving us with a pretty generic crime thriller that is pretty light on thrills. Forgettable stuff, sorry.