Welcome to the Punch

Welcome to the Punch
UK cinema poster
Directed byEran Creevy
Written byEran Creevy
Produced byRory Aitken
Ben Pugh
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Starring
CinematographyEd Wild
Edited byChris Gill
Music byHarry Escott
Production
companies
Distributed byMomentum Pictures
Release dates
  • 24 February 2013 (2013-02-24) (Glasgow Film Festival)
  • 15 March 2013 (2013-03-15)
Running time
99 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8.5 million[3]
Box office$3.9 million[4]

Welcome to the Punch is a 2013 British action thriller film written and directed by Eran Creevy and starring James McAvoy, Mark Strong, and Andrea Riseborough.[5][6] The script had been placed on the 2010 Brit List, a film-industry-compiled list of the best unproduced screenplays in British film. With seven votes, the film was placed third.[7][8]

Plot

Four gunmen emerge from a building in gas masks after a robbery and leave on motorbikes. DI Max Lewinsky sets off in pursuit of the gang in his car. He fails to catch them and suffers an injury after being shot in the leg by Jacob Sternwood, who could have easily killed him.

Three years later, Lewinsky suffers from his wound and has to use drugs for the pain. He works with DS Sarah Hawks, with whom he is on good terms. While escorting the prisoner Dean Warns, an ex-soldier suspected of smuggling weapons, they are met by ambitious Commander Thomas Geiger and DCI Nathan Bartnick who inform them that Warns is to be released due to lack of evidence. A security guard said he saw Warns in a container yard in connection with the offence but has retracted his statement.

Lewinsky learns that Sternwood's son, Ruan, has collapsed on an aircraft runway while travelling under an alias and has been hospitalized. Ruan called an Icelandic landline number before he collapsed, leading a police taskforce to journey to Iceland to find Sternwood. Lewinsky has no faith in this idea, but the police ignore his doubts. They surround Sternwood's property, but he escapes and detonates a booby trap bomb that kills several policemen. Lewinsky suggests that Ruan's location be made public to draw Jacob out of hiding and offers to stay in the hospital with Sarah to await Jacob's appearance. Jacob goes to the hospital to confirm his son's situation and leaves without being caught. Ruan dies shortly afterwards, but this is not revealed on the off-chance that Sternwood will return. Lewinsky tracks down the security guard who retracted his statement, thinking that Sternwood may have forced him to do so, but the guard refuses to help. Sarah follows Warns to the container yard to look for evidence, but Warns intercepts and kills her.

Bartnick is contacted by Sternwood. Bartnick arranges to meet Sternwood at a club to tell him who shot Ruan. Geiger, having tapped the phone call, informs Lewinsky about the meeting. Lewinsky finds Bartnick and Warns are already there, working together. Bartnick and Warns open fire on Lewinsky and Sternwood. Bartnick is fatally shot by Sternwood. Sternwood protects Lewinsky, but, after the gunfight, Lewinsky attacks Sternwood. Sternwood overpowers him and demands to be taken to see his son. Lewinsky complies without revealing that Ruan is dead. At the hospital mortuary, Sternwood is heartbroken and incensed by his son's death. Whilst at the hospital mortuary, Lewinsky discovers that Sarah is dead when he comes across her body on a stretcher.

Sternwood and Lewinsky confront Warns at his house. They tell Warns they know about his collaboration with Geiger and the details of the gunrunning. After a shootout, Warns is taken prisoner and forced to contact Geiger to arrange a meeting at "The Punch", a section of the container yard. Lewinsky and Sternwood force Warns to go with them to the meeting. When Geiger arrives, they ambush him. Lewinsky blames Geiger for Sarah's death and accuses him of complicity in the arms deal among other criminal dealings. Geiger admits "turning a blind eye" on many occasions and implicates a high ranking minister, Kincade. Suddenly armed military contractors from Kincade open fire. Lewinsky kills Warns, and Sternwood kills Geiger. Lewinsky and Sternwood face each other. Lewinsky raises his gun, but recalling the earlier time when Sternwood deliberately did not kill him, allows him to flee. As Sternwood escapes, Lewinsky presents himself to the arriving police.

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken of Between the Eyes, who also produced Eran Creevy's debut feature Shifty. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones also served as a producer on the movie with Worldview Entertainment. Ridley Scott and Liza Marshall of Scott Free executive produced the film.[9] Shooting took place mostly in London, starting 28 July.[10] Some of the interior and exterior scenes were filmed at London College of Communication in Elephant and Castle in August 2011.[11] City of Westminster College's Paddington Green Campus was used for the press conference scene.[citation needed]

Release

Welcome To The Punch premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival.[12] It debuted in third place in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2013, where it grossed £460,000 across 370 cinemas in its opening weekend.[13] In 2012, IFC Films bought distribution rights for the United States and it opened on 27 March 2013, where it grossed $9,747.[14][15] It was released on home video in the U.K. in July 2013.[16]

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 48% approval rating based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Welcome to the Punch is a little deeper and more thoughtful than most police dramas -- but not quite enough to surmount its thinly written characters and numbing violence."[17] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[18]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it an ambitious but predictable film that "runs out of steam" by the end.[19] Emma Dibdin of Total Film wrote, "There's an emotional vacuum at its centre but Welcome To The Punch is an adrenalin shot to the heart of the Brit-crime genre."[20] Dan Jolin of Empire called it "a confident, ambitious and action-rich Brit thriller, albeit one whose characters and clarity suffer from the frantic intensity of its pacing."[21] Guy Lodge of Variety described it as "a proficient but personality-free policer that demands little of either its audience or its enviable best-of-British cast".[22] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "despite its fast pacing and well-staged action set-pieces, the film fails to make much of an impression."[23] Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times called it "derivative, dumb fun".[24] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that it is an "enjoyable absurdity" that is unintentionally funny yet still recommended.[25]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Welcome to the Punch (2013)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016.
  2. ^ "WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Welcome to the Punch". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Welcome to the Punch".
  5. ^ "James McAvoy hits kerb filming car chase scenes for Welcome to the Punch". mirror.co.uk. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  6. ^ "James McAvoy cast in Welcome To The Punch". Britmovie. 26 April 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  7. ^ "The Brit List 2010". Industrialscripts.co.uk. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  8. ^ Dawtrey, Adam (6 November 2010). "Brit List spotlights unproduced gems". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Ridley Scott produces the bullet-ridden action of 'Welcome to the Punch'". cityonfire.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  10. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (26 January 2012). "Welcome To The Punch". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  11. ^ "Film star McAvoy on set at LCC". Arts London News. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  12. ^ Sweeney, Samantha (30 January 2013). "Joss Whedon to attend Glasgow Film Festival". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  13. ^ Sandwell, Ian (18 March 2013). "Oz the Great and Powerful holds firm at the UK box office". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  14. ^ Kay, Jeremy (18 July 2012). "IFC Films takes US rights to Welcome To The Punch". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  15. ^ "Welcome to the Punch". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  16. ^ Kermode, Mark (27 July 2013). "Mark Kermode's DVD round-up". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  17. ^ "Welcome to the Punch (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  18. ^ "Welcome to the Punch Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  19. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (14 March 2013). "Welcome to the Punch – review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  20. ^ Dibdin, Emma (7 March 2013). "Welcome To The Punch". Total Film. Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  21. ^ Jolin, Dan (27 January 2012). "Welcome To The Punch". Empire. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  22. ^ Lodge, Guy (15 March 2013). "Film Review: 'Welcome to the Punch'". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  23. ^ Scheck, Frank (26 March 2013). "Welcome to the Punch: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  24. ^ Abele, Robert (28 March 2013). "Review: 'Welcome to the Punch' lacks just that yet still entertains". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  25. ^ Dargis, Manohla (26 March 2013). "Smooth Operators Slink Into the Desolate Night". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2014.

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