Punisher War Zone 2008

Frank Castle the exmilitary man whose family was killed by criminals who became a vigilante known as the Punisher goes after a whole mob family and gets everyone except enforcer Billy Russoti. He tracks Russoti down and chases him into a vat that is used for crushing bottles. Frank turns on the crusher hoping it would take care of him but it doesnt. He survives but sustains very severe injuries that even with plastic surgery his face looks like a jigsaw puzzle. So he decides to adopt the name Jigsaw. Frank who killed one of Russotis people who unknown to him is an undercover Fed decides to pack it in. But when he learns Russoti didnt die and is looking for the money he entrusted to the Fed and will go looking for it at his home which means his family is in danger. So Frank tries to save them. But Russoti wants revenge on Frank so he breaks out his brother who is so crazed that he is committed to an asylum to deal with him. And also another Fed whos a friend of the man Frank ...

Review

Roger Egbert was spot on when he wrote ""The Punisher War Zone" is one of the bestmade bad movies I've seen". Viewed independently it is an ultimate men's movie and more fun to watch than all Steven Seagal movies put together. This movie does not hold back on anything like the wimpy Thomas Jane's Punisher who was more of a schemer than a punisher. That movie had its own reason to be liked in that it was a brave move to bring an ultraviolent (Punisher has even used nuclear bomb to kill an otherwise unkillable villain) gory and very dark comic which only had a cult following to the mainstream cinema. While that movie did not feel like a comic book adaptation at all the story being pretty ordinary and plot being too heavy war zone is much closer to the source material. Corny situations had corny and extremely violent solutions. Villains were perfectly cast and did feel like Punisher villains and got what they deserve from a Punisher. The accents were distracting in the beginning but once you get used to them (which is pretty fast since everyone uses a fake sounding and bad accent) you stop noticing it and focus on action which is plenty. Ray Stevenson was a perfect cast and comes across the perfectly believable imposing and intimidating killing machine as the Punisher. The muchmaligned first scene actually set the tone for rest of the movie for me when Punisher goes on a killing spree on the dining table killing everyone on the table menwomen alike in different but extremely bloody way. That is Punisher for me. Perfect movie for fans of Punisher and violent action movie fans in general.