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The terms "British cinema" and "action movie" tend not to go together particularly well. Maybe it's the smaller budgets at play, maybe it's an awareness that our American and Asian cousins do it better, maybe it's cultural -- most British cops don't carry weapons, for example. It's not that it hasn't been tried, it's more that the examples we do have -- "The 51st State," "Centurion," "The Sweeney" -- tend to be bad enough to dissuade too many others from giving it a shot, and so the idea of an action movie set in the U.K. remains incongruous enough that it can form the central joke of an entire film, like Edgar Wright's "Hot Fuzz."
Games Fiends writes, "What it lacked as a coherent thriller it made up for in its action. From the visually stylish opening scenes… to the various and efficiently exciting gun battles throughout, this is actually entertaining, high octane fun if you are able to look beyond the run-of-the-mill and clichéd plot."
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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.
Momentum Pictures will release WELCOME TO THE PUNCH, the new action thriller from director Eran Creevy (Shifty) and Executive Producer Ridley Scott, on March 15th 2013.
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, detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy), one last chance to catch the man he’s always been after.
