McAvoy is after Strong who wounded him (even though he could had killed him) in a getaway some years ago. Welcome to the Punch is a mixture of hard boiled Hong Kong and Tarantinoesque USA edginess thrillers.ĭogged cop James McAvoy is after charismatic hardened criminal (but no psychopath) Mark Strong who plays the anti hero. There are a lot of low budget British thrillers about wanting to be the next 'Get Carter,' most of them poor and even though they might feature good actors, they end up being poor and pedestrian. Reviewed by Prismark10 6 / 10 Hard Punches, hard action And, indeed, the whole thing is a monumental waste of time.
It's a pity that a decent cast has been wasted in this non-starter of a film, with reliable performances from James McAvoy and Mark Strong as the leads, alongside David Morrissey and Peter Mullan Jason Flemyng and Elyas Gabel provide cameo appearances but are equally wasted. It makes for a muted, artificial look that dragged my enjoyment of the film down even further. This is where the entire film is tinted blue and orange, and it's such a cliché that I can't believe directors are still incorporating it into their movies. The direction is equally poor, with Creevy making the bad decision of over-utilising the 'teal effect' for this film. The action, when it hits, is ludicrous, either inappropriate slow motion or random "pop up and shoot" bad guy moments, like in the laughable climax. This story - a predictable mystery with all of the non-surprising surprises you'd expect - is so trivial as to be barely worth writing down, and yet they manage to drag it out to feature length thanks to plenty of padding and unnecessarily filler material. The blame for this film's failure can be laid at the door of writer/director Eran Creevy, a guy who displays a fundamental lack of understanding when it comes to action direction and indeed writing a decent script.Įssentially this is a crime film that sees the central characters investigating a flimsy, over-contrived back story that actually has nothing to do with any of them. WELCOME TO THE PUNCH is a monumental failure of a film, even worse than the recent SWEENEY remake directed by Nick Love. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 3 / 10 Why give a thriller to a director who doesn't understand the genre?
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