Welcome to the Punch

2013

1h 39m

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

684

YOUR RATING

Rate

POPULARITY

Play trailer

1 Video

34 Images

Action

Adventure

Crime

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.

Directors

Eran Creevy

Writers

Eran Creevy(writer by)

Stars

James McAvoy

Mark Strong

David Morrissey

See production, box office & company info

Videos1

Trailer
Watch Welcome to the Punch US Trailer (2013) - James McAvoy Movie HD

Top cast

Max Lewinsky

Jacob Sternwood

Thomas Geiger

Roy Edwards

Nathan Bartnick

Sarah Hawks

Juka Ogadowa

Iris Warns

Harvey Crown

Ruan Sternwood

Luke

Dean Warns

Journalist

Jane Badham

Nurse

Joseph Ojogo

Directors

Eran Creevy

Writers

Eran Creevy(writer by)

All cast & crew

Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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.

Geronimo196708 Jun, 2022