Puncture (2011) – a movie no one has been, but everyone must

Chris Evans stars in what is perhaps one of the most engaging and underrated films of the previous year and is a must watch, mostly because it’s based on actual events.

When I stumbled onto the trailer for Puncture for the first time it caught my eye but did not hold my attention for very long. The reasons for this were the down to the fact that not only was Chris Evans playing a lawyer in the movie but that it was going
down the same road as every other film in the same genre.

So I put it off before finally getting around to watching it and let me tell you something, I’m glad I did. While the film is no Hollywood blockbuster and most of the cast are ‘unknowns’ the film itself manages to set its own pace.

Puncture revolves around Evans’s character who is a small time lawyer going after the big fish in the American Health set up while at the same time trying to cope with his own addiction to drugs.

That is all the reader needs to know for now as the film will take you Mike Weiss’s struggle as he battles almost everyone in order to get justice.

The movie starts off on a light tone but gets darker with time before an ending that will have you smiling, though not for the reasons you might think. The movie is not a cliché of poetic justice as one would expect but more of a story of perseverance and
struggle than anything else.

But what has to be the film’s strongest point has to be the fact that everything this movie portrays actually happened in real life. The movie was inspired by true events and not in the ‘Remember the Titans’ or ‘Black Hawk Down’ kind of way.

Verdict: all in all one has to give this movie a go as it will not disappoint. However, due to the regular drug use and a bit of nudity in the film we would advise a bit of discretion when it comes to who you want to watch the movie with.

Apart from that it is a must watch and we give it a 4 out of 5.

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Posted by Musa Afridi on Feb 25 2012. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry