Comments on: Review: ‘Welcome To The Punch’ Is A Stylish & Smart British Spin In On The Action-Thriller https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-welcome-to-the-punch-is-a-stylish-smart-british-spin-in-on-the-action-thriller-20130311/ Fri, 13 May 2016 10:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: James https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-welcome-to-the-punch-is-a-stylish-smart-british-spin-in-on-the-action-thriller-20130311/#comment-60094 Fri, 13 May 2016 10:29:16 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/review-welcome-to-the-punch-is-a-stylish-smart-british-spin-in-on-the-action-thriller-100898/#comment-60094 This film is f*cking abysmal. A misfire on every level. Shame as Creevy's last film was very confidently done. But this… the story, script, acting, and especially directing was frankly incompetent. Thin, cliched characters, risible dialogue and plotting, no story to speak of. It felt like he had done no research for the script – apart from second grade action films – and there was no specificity to anything, no sense of reality, or place. It felt like there were about 10 people in the whole world of the film, who kept bumping into each other and explaining the ridiculous plot to one another. David Morrissey? Come on mate. Awful performance. McAvoy? Terrible. Even Strong. Pfffft. A real disappointment. Just because Creevy made a good micro-budget film doesn not mean he knows what to do with £10m.

]]> By: William https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-welcome-to-the-punch-is-a-stylish-smart-british-spin-in-on-the-action-thriller-20130311/#comment-60095 Fri, 13 May 2016 10:29:16 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/review-welcome-to-the-punch-is-a-stylish-smart-british-spin-in-on-the-action-thriller-100898/#comment-60095 "Dogged cop Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) is hot on their tail, and almost gets the best of Sternwood, but ends up without his man, who flees to exile in Iceland with a bullet in his kneecap for the trouble…Max, whose career has hit the skids after his injury"

The first sentence makes it sound like Sternwood is injured and flees to Iceland, so what injury does Max have?

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