Puncture (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: 15 Mar 2012
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 2 wins
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1582248/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Puncture
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/puncture
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Runtime: 100 min
• Writer: Paul Danziger, Chris Lopata, Ela Thier
• Director: Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen
• Cast: Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Vinessa Shaw

	6.8/10
	54/100
	52% – Critics
	54% – Audience

Puncture Storyline

An attorney fighting a corrupt system is battling his own demons as he tries to do right by others in this drama. Vicky (Vinessa Shaw) is a nurse at a hospital in Houston whose life takes an unexpected turn when she accidentally jabs herself with a used syringe. The needle had been used on a patient who was HIV-positive, and Vicky contracts AIDS. Jeffrey Danfort (Marshall Bell) is a close friend of Vicky’s who designs medical equipment, and he’s inspired to invent a syringe with a safety point that would prevent such mistakes. However, as Jeffrey tries to sell his new invention to pharmaceutical manufacturers, he discovers how much they’re governed by corruption and insider dealings. Jeffrey decides to take on the dishonest firms with a lawsuit, and he secures the services of Weiss and Danziger, a small law office eager for any kind of business. But while Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) needs the work to support his wife and children, Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is more concerned with supporting his cocaine habit, which is spiraling out of control. Even though Mike sees the case as a chance to prove himself, his hunger for drugs is a constant obstacle.

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A different take on the lawyer movie. Starts slow, by the end you are rooting for a drug addict. Not a usual thing. I say B+

“Sometimes the brightest light comes from the darkest places” This is the true story about Mike Weiss (Evans) a personal injury lawyer who takes on a huge health supply company after one of his clients is infected with a dirty needle. The client is a nurse in a hospital that uses plastic needles that are re-used over and over. Mike wants to make it so every hospital only uses the one time use only needles that his other client manufactures. The only problem is that Mike is a drug addicted mess. This movie is deceiving. The first half hour to me was a little slow and wasn’t sure if I could make it through. When it picked up, it really picked up and sucked me in. By the end of the movie you are very engrossed and are pulling for someone you normally wouldn’t. A movie much like “Runaway Jury” mixed with “The Lincoln Lawyer”, not quite as good as “Lincoln Lawyer” though. Overall, a very good law movie that will make you think. I give it a B+.

*Also try – Lincoln Lawyer & Runaway Jury

Idealism versus Mafia

The lawyers Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) and Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) are partners in the Danziger and Weiss and they both are idealistic. Mike is a drug-addicted and needy for love man and Paul is a family man with a pregnant wife.

When the nurse Vicky Rogers (Vinessa Shaw) seeks them out, they learn that she has contracted AIDS a couple of years ago when she was accidentally pinpricked with a contaminated needle by a violent patient. Vicky shows a retractable safety needle invented by the engineer Jeffrey Matthew Dancort (Marshall Bell), who owns the Safety Point Company, but is unable to sell his product to any hospital from the United Medical but the San Antonio Memorial Hospital.

The Danziger and Weiss accept the case and go to court against the United Medical, defended by the powerful lawyer Nathaniel Price (Brett Cullen). Sooner they see all the doors closed in their fight against the powerful mafia of the medical supply system.

“Puncture” is the third American film that I see this year (“Love and Other Drugs” and “Side Effects” are the other two) about the medical care system in the United States. Using partially the IMDb storyline, this is a David and Goliath law drama showing a story of idealism versus mafia apparently based on a true story.

The hopeless plot is engaging and the cast has good performances. However Jeffrey Matthew Dancort seems to be a contradictory character since the guy is completely wasted when he has a chance to present his project to investors. The ambiguous fate of Mike Weiss induces the viewer that he has been murdered but it is not clear. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): “Código de Honra” (“Honor Code”)

MOVIE ENDS WHEN IT STARTS TO GET INTERESTING

The film is based on a true story.

The movie opens with a nice happy indie soundtrack. Happy mom (Vinessa Shaw as Vicky) drops her little girl off at school and smiles as she goes to work in a hospital trauma ward. A man is wheeled in struggling, a bad PCP reaction. Mom tries to inject the patient only to get pricked herself with a contaminated HIV needle, hence the title of the film, “puncture.” After the credits we see a trial lawyer (not hard to guess how these two subplots come together) who is in a cheap motel with 2 sleazy looking women and large amounts of cocaine. He is going over his next court case. Chris Evans stars as Mike Weiss, a lawyer with his own demons.

Nurse Vicky is already being compensated for her injury so there really isn’t a case for her. However Mom is on a crusade. A one time disposable syringe has been developed that has a retractable needle that would prevent workers from getting infected…and hospitals won’t even look at them as an option because of how their group purchasing operates. The non-charismatic manufacturer of the needle says, “Is there anyway we can sue a hospital for not buying something that saves people’s lives?” While smoking a crack pipe with a naked woman, Mike gets an idea. He discovers that there has been 800,000 needle punctures to health care workers in the US. In investigating why hospitals won’t buy this needle, he breaks out the large “Glen Beck conspiracy board” and draws lines and connects dots and discovers large corporations, payoffs, kickbacks, and a few well placed politicians.

The film reminded me of an absurd “Erin Brockovich.” Unlike “Erin Brockovich” we really don’t feel for the victims. At one point Mike is late for a meeting and while in the restroom he develops a “too much nose candy” nose bleed. What should be a great drama turns out to be a mediocre screen play with lack luster performances. It is interesting and entertaining from an historical and political sense, but fails as a drama. When the movie starts to grab you, they roll the end credits.

F-bomb, brief nudity, lots of drug use