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Welcome to the Punch

2013

Eran Creevy

James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan ...

5.0

2,254

Thriller Ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) is forced to return to London when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives his nemesis, police detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy), one last chance to catch the man he's always been after.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A confident, ambitious and action-rich Brit thriller, albeit one whose characters and clarity suffer from the frantic intensity of its pacing (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It runs out of steam, with plot revelations visible from a mile away and a bit of a plausibility gap (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	""Welcome to the Punch" is derivative, dumb fun. Writer-director Eran Creevy shows himself to be well versed in the mythic sweep of Christopher Nolan's and Michael Mann's crime sagas, if not their intelligence with storytelling."	NEU
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"There are a lot of casualties in this stylish, unoriginal thriller, but James McAvoy’s knee was the only one that moved me."	NEG

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