Welcome to the Punch (2013)

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningOfficer Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) is still reeling after an encounter where he failed to snare career criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong), who's now retreated to Iceland, but is forced to come out of hiding when his son is mortally wounded, along with another boy who was killed. Desperate to catch his formerly illusive prey, Lewinsky closes in on Sternwood, but they find themselves working together when they find each other stalked by the same enemy.

I know what's going on here. We're all very used to seeing Matt Damon or Tom Cruise do a bunch of zoomed in fight scenes where you can't quite make out who's hitting whom.

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.Welcome to the Punch is a mixture of hard boiled Hong Kong and Tarantinoesque USA edginess thrillers.