Vengeance has a name.
| 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 |
| SA distributor | Ster-Kinekor |
| 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 |
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| 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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| 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 | |