Vengeance has a name.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
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 |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large | Scroll down for embedded trailer
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 |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 1 | |
Die Burger Paul Boekkooi | 1 | |
Cape Times Frank Scheck | 5 | |
iAfrica.com James O'Ehley The movie's saving grace is however its pitch black sense of humour. | 8 | |
24.com Ulpha Edries | 5 | |
Box Office Marco Cerritos Incompetent and cartoonish are the best words to describe Punisher: War Zone | 1 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger 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. | 10 | |
eye Weekly 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. | 1 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs An exercise in stoic mass killing, filled with mediocre to bad acting, awful dialogue and mishandled action scenes. | 5 | |
Metacritic.com 24 critics | 6 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 96 critics | 9 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Punisher: War Zone recalls the excessively violent, dialogue-challenged actioners of the 1980s, and coincidentally feels two decades out of date. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 12269 Netizens Exactly what you'd want in a Punisher movie | 13 | |
Average .. 27% | 5 |