Punisher: War Zone

Punisher: War Zone is based on a Marvel comic, which means the gut-spilling, blood-spurting action is so entirely over-the-top audiences laugh and cheer the movie's most disgusting scenes (and there are some doozies). The film boasts some of the more revolting special effects ever conceived. ... Full Review

There are delightfully inventive moments of bone-splintering, tissue-shredding, brain-pulpifying ultraviolence-the kind that usually accompanies a better film. The cast is superlative... ... Full Review

Punisher: War Zone is occasionally terrible enough to be funny, but never funny enough to overcome its thundering stupidity. While Stevenson glowers, most of the rest cast competes to give the least believable, most wooden performance. ... Full Review

Pre-release issues aside, "Punisher: War Zone" is gratuitously, stylishly ultra-violent. Beyond the ultra-stylish ultra-violence, however, there's almost nothing else to recommend "Punisher: War Zone" for non-die-hard fans (the same was true of the two earlier, ostensibly unrelated versions). ... Full Review

Frank Castle has one story, the mythology stays the same," says Stevenson, "but I've been lucky enough to ground it in a different environment where Frank Castle belongs, a place which is very bleak and cold and dangerous. You can't blame Stevenson (Titus in the BBC's 'Rome') for wanting to distance War Zone from Jonathan Hensleigh 's Punisher picture. ... Full Review

I love my job.The worst movie I saw this year, in my capacity as film critic?"Punisher: War Zone."Here's a film that inspired a critic from USA Today to ask, "Why punish us?" ... Full Article

Punisher: War Zone is the third attempt to bring the violent vigilante comic book character to the big screen, and by this latest example, the third time is not always the charm. ... Full Article

First there was Dolph Lundgren.Then came Thomas Jane.Now it is Ray Stevenson's turn.Over nearly a two-decade span, the three actors have played the Marvel Comics character the Punisher in feature films. ... Full Article

Published: December 6, 2008 How tough is The Punisher? He's so tough that when his nose is broken, he jams a pencil in it as far as it will go and yanks it hard to the side to straighten the... ... Full Article

Punisher: War Zone wastes no time in getting down to its nasty business. The opening credits have barely stopped rolling when our title character, a vicious vigilante, bursts into a mansion straight out of a bad Godfather fantasy and wastes... ... Full Article