Welcome to the Punch (2013)
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.
- Eran Creevy
- Eran Creevy
Rating: 5.835/10 by 646 users
Alternative Title:
欢迎来到庞奇 - CN
Inimigos de Sangue - BR
Le Traître - CA
Enemigos de Sangre - BO
Ласкаво просимо в капкан - UA
Feinde - Welcome to the Punch - DE
테이크다운 - KR
双雄 - CN
ビトレイヤー：2013 - JP
Enemigos de sangre - AR
Country:
Canada
India
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 39 minutes
Budget: $8,500,000
Revenue: $3,900,000
Plot Keyword: assassin, detective, heist, conspiracy, criminal
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.
