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Punisher: War Zone

Vengeance has a name.

This episode of comic-book-hero The Punisher does not really pick up where the previous left off. The Punisher is now a vigilante, dispensing his brand of justice to all the baddies he can find. The cops are on his tail. They're also after some Russian baddies, who in turn are after The Punisher. As they all battle to come out on top, the body count rises dramatically. Expect lots of extremely gruesome violence. The critics were not impressed.

102 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Violence)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchinson, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight, Dash Mihok, Julie Benz

Director

Lexi Alexander

Screenplay

Nick Santora, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway

Music

Michael Wandmacher

Cinematography

Steve Gainer

Editing

William Yeh

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2008

Produced by

Lions Gate Films, MHF Zweite Academy Film, Marvel Enterprises, Marvel Knights, Media Magik Entertainment, Red Corner Productions, Valhalla Motion Pictures

SA Distributor

Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action
Language	Continuously strong, very frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Violence is non-stop. It is strongly implied, bloody, gory and gratuitous.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Some
Drug abuse	Infrequent social alcohol and tobacco
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith

Die BurgerPaul Boekkooi

Cape TimesFrank Scheck

iAfrica.comJames O'Ehley The movie's saving grace is however its pitch black sense of humour.

24.comUlpha Edries

International Media

Box Office (USA)Marco Cerritos Incompetent and cartoonish are the best words to describe Punisher: War Zone

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert The Punisher: War Zone is one of the best-made bad movies I've seen. It looks great, it hurtles through its paces and is well-acted. The soundtrack is like elevator music if the elevator were in a death plunge. The special effects are state of the art. Its only flaw is that it's disgusting.

eye Weekly (Canada)Neil Karassik Punisher: War Zone takes the comic-book franchise’s depiction of graphic-violence-in-the-name-of-justice to depressingly low depths. And speaking of depth, between unrelenting moments of impossibly gory carnage (you can make a fatally dangerous drinking game out of the number of heads that explode and, yes, are even punched through), the film hardly contains a shred of narrative cohesion.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs An exercise in stoic mass killing, filled with mediocre to bad acting, awful dialogue and mishandled action scenes.

Metacritic.com24 critics

RottenTomatoes.com96 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Punisher: War Zone recalls the excessively violent, dialogue-challenged actioners of the 1980s, and coincidentally feels two decades out of date.

Internet (IMDB)12269 Netizens Exactly what you'd want in a Punisher movie

Average .. 27%

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