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.

Lewinsky learns that Sternwood's son, Ruan, has collapsed on an aircraft runway while travelling under an alias and has been hospitalized.

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.

Geiger admits "turning a blind eye" on many occasions and implicates a high ranking minister, Kincade.

[10] Some of the interior and exterior scenes were filmed at London College of Communication in Elephant and Castle in August 2011.

[13] In 2012, IFC Films bought distribution rights for the United States and it opened on 27 March 2013, where it grossed $9,747.

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.

[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.

[24] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that it is an "enjoyable absurdity" that is unintentionally funny yet still recommended.