Punch | 
 enlarge | Director: Guy Bennett
Actors: Sonja Bennett, Michael Riley, Vincent Gale
Studio: First Look
Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 13896
Genre: Action
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 90 Minutes
ASIN: B001FSD6VQ
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
Ariel is a troubled girl with more than the usual teenage problems. When her confusion and temper finally explode, she's drawn into a world where anger is taken out in the ring. In the tradition of Girlfight and Knockout comes a gripping story of rage and redemption. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Worth taking a swing at May 19, 2005
Dan Brady (Minneapolis, MN United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Okay - up front, the characters aren't typical of movies. The father is a wimp, totally lost at how to discipline his daughter. The daughter is socially estranged, fixated on her father, jealous of his girlfriend, and simmering with anger. The girlfriend is emotionally timid, indecisive, and scorns her sister while feeling guilt about not protecting her from some dark secret in their past. The sister is compassionate to women and emotionally abusive to men, quick to take offense at every opportunity. The topless boxing is populated by women who look better with their clothes on, and the bartender is an insensitive clod.
In short, they're typical people, with all of the flaws of people that we know - they're annoyingly believable. Nobody is Hollywood beautiful, the characters are human, and you see hints at stories that you never learn.
The main plot is about watching these people deal with their problems, and the problems of the people that they care about. The ending is on a hopeful note - but it's no fairy-tale "they lived happily ever after".
All in all, an amazingly realistic look at very realistic people - not a great movie, but good, and beautifully casted, written, and directed.
Fists (among other apendages) of fury. November 29, 2004
Smegma Cheese
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
lnteresting, erotic and yet a bit disturbing. You try to have sympathy for Ariel, but she is too much of a [...] to give it to her. Sure the topless boxing is nice, even though one lady l'd rather see her with her shirt on, but there is a very interesting story around it. l was shocked to find out that the lady who played Ariel is the director's daughter. Why would any Father subject their daughter to a near full frontal nudity scene? The title is appropriate because the story line really hits you, hard.
 knockout movie April 6, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was intrigued when I saw this movie in the store. When I watched it I wasn't too dissapointed. The story surrounds an anger fueled, anti-social teenage girl named Ariel and her single father who both seem to have their share of problems in life. Things start to heat up when Ariel becomes rivals with her dad's new girlfriend and her sister. It's a movie worth checking out.
 This One is Different! June 27, 2003
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
"Punch" is a funny mixture of subtlity, humour, sensitivity, crudeness, gentle care of characters and raw edges.
Perhaps it is a Canadian sensibility that gives us real people instead of overwhelmingly likeable heroes. Canadians tend to see the world in shades of grey and "Punch" is true to that. The awful characters have soft, sympathetic underbellies. The "good guys" have genuine flaws. No relationships are perfect. Sometimes one's best is not good enough. There can be humour in the middle of a crisis. And so on...
Lovely shades of grey.
 [Weak] June 21, 2003
9 out of 19 found this review helpful
"Punch" is a pathetically bad movie with no likable characters: The father is weak and subconsciously wants to bed his daughter, the girlfriend is wimpish and desperate, and her sister is violent. The one character we should have sympathy for is the daughter, but she has no redeeming qualities. She is deeply psychologically disturbed and wants to have sex with her father. She's violent and has severe anger problems. The father should have recognized this - but seems unaware all the way to the end. It's unbelievable that the daughter wasn't forced to have counseling. In the movie, it's never even considered as a means to help the girl. The film-makers seem to believe that receiving a good beating or giving a good beating is the way to solve deep rooted psychological problems. A notion in itself which is very disturbing.
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