James McAvoy and Mark Strong plays the lead role in this Eran Creevy's Brit Action Flick. Synopsis 3 years ago,Max Lewinsky was severely injured during a combat with the notorious criminal James Sternwood and was waiting for a chance to take on James.. Now James has returned to find his son's killer who got killed in a gun fight. Max in pursuit of James and then teams up with him to find the real culprits I liked the movie coz of its fast paced narration and good action moments. The story's good but something was missing whole total in it. The lead actors were good in their roles. Bgm and camera-work was fine but not the best. You can try this if you are looking for a time pass action thriller. My rating 6.8 on 10

I've just wasted 96 minutes of my life on this so I won't waste too much time on a review. This movie? Totally unbelievable rubbish. Not exciting, not suspenseful, not credible, wooden acting, predictable plot. Nothing new at all. It's a British movie that's trying to be an American shoot 'em up drama. The Americans make some wonderful movies but with an awful lot of duds thrown in, many of them of this tired old ilk. If I wanted to watch a thoroughly predictable and ridiculous good guys and bad guys movie of this type, it would probably be one of the better American ones. Seriously, don't waste your time and heartbeats on this crap. JMV

With the main two actors in this film the interest in this film may be big but I do believe that this film is completely average in almost every way. This story sees a cop on the revenge against a criminal that almost cost him his career. Now this film is co-led by James Mcavoy and Mark Strong and they are both fantastic in their roles. Mcavoy is really good as the crazy cop who really seems obsessed with the case and he gets it across well which the audience can buy. Mark Strong is great in villainous roles and this film is no different as he does his brooding villain well and his chemistry with Mcavoy is deceptively good and is a good part of the film. Their is a hired mercenary and he does a good job in the film with his intense performance fairing well among the other great main performances. But their is a lack of other interesting side characters with none of the others doing a good enough job to make themselves a good character. At first the story seems quite simplistic but towards the end it just becomes a huge convoluted mess and totally ruins the story of this film. Also we don't know enough about the main two characters so we don't care about them as much as we really should do. The script is okay when Mcavoy and Strong are talking but everybody else's dialogue sucks and it really does hurt this film. The style of this film is mixed, the scenery is dark and really cool, however, there is just way too much shaky cam and it makes watching the action scenes very difficult. Overall this is an average film that you can definitely miss out on.

Part of my problem with "Welcome" might be that there are some British things going on here that I don't have the background to appreciate. I don't mean acting - MacAvoy and Strong and the rest of the cast play their roles wonderfully, and in fact it's been my experience that a Brit movie will almost always bring things to the screen that an American version of the same story wouldn't think of (or couldn't pull off). I don't know. Maybe I've just getting jaded or maybe I've seen too many movies since Walmart and Target routinely started selling their back-stock DVDs for $5 and made it easier for me to catch a lot more movies. But I like a movie to have a little more closure than I am getting here - it's like the movie needed a couple more scenes to wrap things up. Plus (*spoiler alert*)The most likable and sympathetic character in the movie gets bumped off 50 minutes in, and it seems gratuitous - it was obviously done to add the the grimness and heartlessness of the proceedings, which were already plenty grim and heartless.(*end spoiler*)I appreciate the terse, lean style on display here...but I am not in any hurry to see this again, and this isn't the kind of "you've got to see this" discovery you share with friends. I actually want to give this a "6.5", but because the acting and photography was so good, I rounded it up to "7".