One scene will show us cooler bluish hues, the next will take on a greenish pallor and then red is often used for very violent scenes. But the film manages to give us some lighter moments especially at the expense of some of its insane villains.īD-50 1080P, Mpeg-4 AVC, 2:35:1 widescreenĪs noted earlier the film is mostly dark and gritty. It takes the source material very seriously giving us realistically brutal and gut wrenching action. The film deftly propels across the story with terrific pacing for an action film. The actor endured grueling training with the US Marines and Army Recon weapons specialists not to mention hand to hand mixed martial artists to make the on-screen action look so real. Punisher: War Zone opens with a brutal gun battle where Stevenson shows us a Punisher that handles weapons and can clear a room as naturally as most of us breathe. He only lasted a short run of one of the comic series but he fits here if nothing else to give Punisher someone to talk to. He’ll be recognized by anyone who ever read the comics as Punisher’s ever popular techie assistant. Where Jane’s Punisher was modernized here were back to Punisher being an ex-Marine veteran. This Punisher doesn’t follow continuity of the Thomas Jane movie. Fortunately we’re not taken through a retread of the Punisher’s painful origin story. We get to see how Jigsaw gets his namesake and one very bad potential side-effect of recycling. The antagonist is one of the classic arch enemies – Jigsaw. The supporting characters are a curious lot. She wanted the movie to looks like the Max comics that often stripped down the number of colors used in each frame to impart a gritty, shadowy feel. This is a late-night, adults only thriller.īut step outside the blood and gore and you’ll see an esthetic in its minimalist visual style thanks to director Lexi Alexander. If you’re looking for a film for a family movie night, look elsewhere. It’s got the kind of visuals that might have felt at home in the latest installment of the Rambo series. Ray Stevenson’s Punisher doesn’t just shoot the bad guys, he literally blows their heads clean off and you’re spared none of the gory details. It’s a crossing a slasher flick, gritty film noir and Deathwish. But what its name might suggest it’s not really the Punisher: War Zone series, instead it’s more what you see in the Punisher Max series written by Garth Ennis. This film is very true to the look and feel of the Punisher comics. You won’t find a better representation of this gritty, violent action thriller than this two-disc set on Blu-ray. But like the 2004 film, this version might just find its true following on home video. The 2008 film didn’t exactly set records at the box-office, but nobody expected it to. Ray Stevenson is a Punisher like no other – and Lexi Alexander gives us the look and feel that is just right for the material. It’s my opinion that the best Punisher was saved ‘til last. Then Thomas Jane gave us a brooding Punisher in 2004. The Punisher has been played by three actors now: First Dolph Lundgren in the campy 80s Punisher movie. Staring: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight.
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