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Movie Review - "The Punisher: War Zone

We had heard that this was not a great movie before we went. However, it's not the acting that draws people to a Punisher film, it's the action. True to that, this movie is perhaps the most violent film released in 2008. Every part of the human anatomy is shot, stabbed or snapped. Your eyeballs are subjected to all sorts of carnage: impalement, cannibalism, disembowelment and decapitation, in no particular order. Women, children, senior citizens - no one gets out in one piece. Though it is true that he is supposed to be a violent character, as portrayed by the Marvel comic book vigilante, The Punisher, a former priest-in-training who devotes his life to hunting down criminals after his family is brutally murdered. It was always one of Marvel's darkest creations. Even though the movie goes overboard in this area, It was fun. At least as much fun as an R-rated, bloody, violent as hell movie about a vigilante can be. We give it [3-Stars].


SYNOPSIS: The film begins with The Punisher crashing a mob dinner party, where he dispatches about 30 henchmen while hanging upside down from a chandelier. A bit later, he tracks down a narcissistic gangster named Billy "The Beaut" Russoti, who is hatching a plan to sneak biological weapons into New York and sell them to terrorists. In a slight derivation of the super-villain origin story we've seen countless times before, Russoti is disfigured by the Punisher and reborn as the manacle Jigsaw - imagine a cross between Two-Face and the Joker - after he's thrown into a glass recycling machine. Jigsaw, of course, swears revenge on The Punisher. To assist him on his rampage of revenge, he breaks his apparently insane, homicidal maniac brother James, Loony Bin Jim, out of an asylum.

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