History Film / WelcomeToThePunch

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Subverted. In the final shootout, everyone goes for assault rifles as their main weapons, but Lewinsky keeps a shotgun as his backup. He uses it to [[spoiler:kill Dean.]]

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The film relies on this. It has spectacular action sequences when it is required like the chase scene at the beginning or the shooting at the disco. But there are very quiet intimate moments like the scene in the morgue [[spoiler:when Jacob sees his son's corpse]].
* AffablyEvil: Jacob Sternwood. He is a criminal but [[AntiVillain has standards]].
* ArrestedForHeroism: [[spoiler: At the end, Lewinsky is surrounded by his colleagues led by his subordinate Juka Ogadowa having uncovered a massive conspiracy to arm the police, change the government and secure the lucrative contract for police arms and training for a large corporation only to be arrested for a crime he hadn't commit.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Geiger is considered like a father figure and a friend to Lewinsky as he helps him with the investigation but in the end he is a corrupt cop like the others.]]

* ChokeHolds: [[spoiler: Dean kills Sarah this way.]]
* ColorCodedPatrician: In the opening robbery, Sternwood and his gang are wearing [[BadassInANiceSuit identical suits]] and motorcycle helmets. Fortunately he's the only one wearing a red tie, enabling Lewinsky to single him out.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Dean Warns is an arrogant and ruthless goon with no remorse, but he has some heart for his grandmother and stays with her watching films while he's not on duty. Sternwood and Lewinsky [[AttackItsWeakPoint use this and take her hostage]] so he can confess.

* HoneyTrap: Sarah seduces a dock worker so she can investigate the containers.

* ManlyTears: Both Max and Jacob share them. Jacob when he [[spoiler:sees his son in the morgue]] and Max after realising that [[spoiler: most of his colleagues are corrupt and Sarah was killed because she was about to uncover it. He also is framed up as her murderer.]]
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Subverted. In the final shootout, everyone goes for assault rifles as their main weapons, but Lewinsky keeps a shotgun as his backup. He uses it to [[spoiler: kill Dean.]]

Detective Max Lewinsky ([=McAvoy=]) chases master thief Jacob Sternwood (Strong) avoiding his superior's orders and ends up defeated by Sternwood. However Sternwood leaves him alive with a shot in the leg. Three years later, Jacob’s son, Ruan, is arrested at the airport forcing him to get out of his retirement in Iceland. As soon as Jacob returns to London, detective Lewinsky traces him back but some dirty circumstances within their environments turn them into unexpectable allies.

While it initially appears as yet another obsessive detective chases criminal from his past, ''Welcome to the Punch'' is actually more complex than this. This complexity doesn't, however, intrude on the gun death heavy action.

* {{Squick}} Max has to drain fluid, from his infected knee, with a syringe on several occasions. He then disposed the fluid into his empty Coffee Cup or his Ash tray

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Thomas Geiger.]]

* DirtyCop: Harvey Crown, [[spoiler:Nathan Bartnick and Thomas Geiger]].

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas / EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Dean Warns is an arrogant and ruthless goon with no remorse but he has some heart for his grandmother and stays with her watching films while he's not on duty. Sternwood and Lewinsky [[Main/AttackItsWeakPoint use this and take her hostage]] so he can confess.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Sarah is murdered by Dean and then placed in Lewinsky's bed. Juka finds and takes her to the morgue where he faces Lewinsky thinking that he killed her.]]

* GentlemanThief: Sternwood's a subdued version, but still counts.

* HandicappedBadass: Jacob shoots Max down in the Opening Case and cripples his knee in the process. However this doesn't stop Max from chasing after the suspects, jumping through windows and over car bonnets.

* IHaveYourWife: Subverted. Sternwood and Lewinsky, the main characters, take Dean's granny hostage but she is not aware of it.
* InspectorJavert: Lewinsky averts this. At the first half of the movie he is in pursuit of Jacob Sternwood. Then circumstances change dramatically for both Lewisnky and Sternwood, becoming temporal allies.

* ItsPersonal: Lewinsky toward Sternwood, who doesn't share his animosity.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Sarah Hawks.]]

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Max Lewinsky and Sarah Hawks. It is implied specially when they almost kiss. Then the trope is literally [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope invoked]] as Sarah is murdered by Dean]].

''Welcome to the Punch'' is a 2013 British action drama thriller directed by Eran Creevy, executive produced by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/DavidMorrissey, Creator/PeterMullan, Daniel Mays, Johnny Harris, Andrea Riseborough and Creator/JasonFlemyng.

* ColorCodedPatrician: In the opening robbery, Sternwood and his gang are wearing motorcycle helmets. Fortunately he's the only one wearing a red tie.

* CouldNotFindAPen: Sarah writes notes on her hand. [[spoiler:This becomes a ChekhovsGun DeadHandShot when she's murdered.]]

'''''Welcome to the Punch''''' is a 2013 British action drama thriller directed by Eran Creevy, executive produced by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/DavidMorrissey, Creator/PeterMullan, Daniel Mays, Johnny Harris, Andrea Riseborough and Creator/JasonFlemyng.

Detective Max Lewinsky ([=McAvoy=]) chases biker criminal Jacob Sternwood (Strong) avoiding his superior's orders and ends up defeated by Sternwood. However Sternwood leaves him alive with a shot in the leg. Three years later, Jacob’s son, Ruan, is arrested at the airport forcing him to get out of his retirement in Iceland. As soon as Jacob returns to London, detective Lewinsky traces him back but some dirty circumstances within their environments turn them into unexpectable allies.

Detective Max Lewinsky (James [=McAvoy=]) chases biker criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) avoiding his superior's orders and ends up defeated by Sternwood. However Sternwood leaves him alive with a shot in the leg. Three years later, Jacob’s son, Ruan, is arrested at the airport forcing him to get out of his retirement in Iceland. As soon as Jacob returns to London, detective Lewinsky traces him back but some dirty circumstances within their environments turn them into unexpectable allies.

* HandicappedBadass: Jacob shots Max down in the Opening Case and cripples his knee in the process, however this doesnt stop Max from chasing after Badguys and Suspects,jumping through windows and over car bonnets.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Max Lewinsky and Sarah Hawks. It is implied specially when they almost kiss. Then the trope is literally [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope invoked]] as Sarah is murdered by Dean]].

* Manly Tears: Both,Max and Jacob share them. Jacob when he[[spoiler:sees his son in the morgue]]and Max after realising that [[spoiler: most of his colleagues are corrupt and Sarah was killed because she was about to uncover it. He also is framed up as her murderer]]

''Welcome to the Punch'' is a 2013 British action drama thriller directed by Eran Creevy, executive produced by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/DavidMorrissey, Creator/PeterMullan, Daniel Mays, Andrea Riseborough and Creator/JasonFlemyng.

Detective Max Lewinsky (Creator/JamesMcAvoy) chases biker criminal Jacob Sternwood (Creator/MarkStrong) despite his superiors’s orders not to do so and ends up defeated by Sternwood. However Sternwood leaves him alive with a shot in the leg. Three years later, Jacob’s son, Ruan, is arrested at the airport forcing him to get out of his retirement in Iceland. As soon as Jacob returns to London, detective Lewinsky traces him back but some dirty circumstances within their environments turn them into unexpectable allies.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene

* IHaveYourWife: Subverted in that it's the original bad guy and the film's hero who take the Dragon's granny hostage.

* ArrestedForHeroism: [[spoiler: At the end, Lewinsky is surrounded by his colleagues led by his subordinate Juka Ogadowa having uncovered a massive conspiracy to arm the police, change the government and secure the lucrative contract for police arms and training for a large corporation.]]

* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Sarah is murdered by Warns and then placed in Lewinsky's bed. Lewinsky doesn't realise this until her body is being taken to the morgue by the subordinate he'd tasked with finding her. He only escapes being arrested by assaulting his subordinate.]]

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Max Lewinsky and Sarah Hawks. It is implied specially when they almost kiss. Then the trope is literally [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope invoked]] as Sarah is killed by Dean]].

* ArrestedForHeroism: [[spoiler: Maybe. At the end, Lewinsky is surrounded by his colleagues led by his subordinate having uncovered a massive conspiracy to arm the police, change the government and secure the lucrative contract for police arms and training for a large corporation.]]

* DirtyCop: Harvey Crown, [[spoiler:Nathan and Geiger.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: After [[spoiler:Lewinsky shoots and kills Dean in the head,]] blood splatter over a container.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Max Lewinsky and Sarah have one and they almost kiss. But then it is literally [[spoiler:unresolved since Sarah is killed by Dean]].

''Welcome to the Punch'' is a 2013 British action drama thriller directed by Eran Creevy, executive produced by Creator/RidleyScott and starring Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Mark Strong, David Morrissey, Peter Mullan, Daniel Mays, Andrea Riseborough and Jason Flemyng.

* FriendlyEnemy: Lewinsky and Sternwood are forced to become allies because of [[spoiler:the deaths of Sternwood's son, Ruan, and Sarah, Lewinsky's partner.]]

* MandatoryUnretirement: Sternwood has to come out from his Icelandic retirement because of Ruan's arrest.

British 2013 film.

Retired criminal Jacob Sternwood's (MarkStrong) is prompted to return to London after a desperate plea for help from his son Ruan. However, Max Lewinsky (JamesMcAvoy), the police officer who let Sternwood escape to Iceland initially, is ready and waiting for him. When Sternwood escapes both end up trying to figure out who shot his son and uncover a deadly conspiracy.

While it initially appears as yet another obsessive detective chases criminal from his past, Welcome to the Punch is actually more complex than this. This complexity doesn't, however, intrude on the gun death heavy action.

* ArrestedForHeroism: Maybe. At the end, Lewinsky is surrounded by his colleagues led by his subordinate having uncovered a massive conspiracy to arm the police, change the government and secure the lucrative contract for police arms and training for a large corporation.

* FrameUp: Lewinsky's partner is murdered by Warns and then placed in Lewinsky's bed. Lewinsky doesn't realise this until her body is being taken to the morgue by the subordinate he'd tasked with finding her. He only escapes being arrested by assaulting his subordinate.
* IHaveYourWife: Subverted in that it's the original bad guy and the film's hero who take the Dragon's granny hostage.

While it initially appears as yet another obsessive detective chases criminal from his past, Welcome to the Punch is actually more complex than this. This complexity doesn't, however, intrude on the gun death heavy action.