Comments on: Punisher: War Zone Review

By: Bugs

Bugs — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:55:54 +0000

Three mistakes in War Zone. Two are forgiveable; one is not.
1) Tagging on “Vengeance has a name” was a bad choice. It’s not vengeance, goofballs; it’s punishment. Issue 1, page 1, paragraph 1. Ugh…but ok.
2) The spinning chandelier. What the hell? Who is this guy, Castle or Pokémon? What? Super-Mario Contra, all of a sudden. It was stupid in Boondocks and it sure as heck wasn’t less stupid with a Specials Forces vet doin it. Arg…but ok.
3) Killing an “innocent”. Someone NOT “on the list”. Terrible mistake. Unforgiveable mistake. There is NO acceptable collateral damage. The day Castle kills an “innocent” is the day he eats a bullet. Making the movie ABOUT THAT doesn’t “add dimension to the character”, no, it SLAPS us in the face by spitting on the STATUS QUO of the character. I had a really hard time with that part.
Other than that, I thought it was friggin awesome!
Peace

By: Jakal

Jakal — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:52:32 +0000

First off, the previous Punisher flick…suckeeeedddd in comparison ton this one. Ok it’s mindless sensless action and gore…but that’s the way the punisher gets things done…This guy is the punisher…who the hell wants a blondo pussycat as Frank..not me.

Yes the bad guys could’ve been better,acted better but it totally surpassed my expèctations.Good movie…and yes Blade did horrible at the box office but know it’s a cult film with a great sequel…may be with more money we can have an even better one.

Saludos amigos!

By: joe

joe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:06:24 +0000

dude that is bull crap this movie sucked something fierce. The first one kicked ass but this one just took it in the ass.

By: Kristian

Kristian — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:11:07 +0000

Punisher warzone was amazing! I loved every second of it. Ray stevenson was the perfect punisher! In every way. I use to read the comics all the time he truly is the punisher. He captured all the darkness of the character so well is was stunning. The action was great and was one of the most funny stuff Ive ever seen. It was the real punisher! The first time i saw the movie I couldnt speak! Thats never ever happened to me watching a movie! The movie was just great and i would love to see another

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:55:30 +0000

WOW this one sucked all the way 4 thumbs down, horriable acting and Ray as Frank poor choice. Should have stuck with the orginal guy and let the same people make this one. This is the 1st marvel movie that sucked

By: Haito13

Haito13 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:18:39 +0000

The “Only” punisher movie in my books.The producers should note though that the only people who’se gonna appreciate A True Punisher movie are those that actually red and collect The Punisher Comics. It won’t win awards thats for sure, but at least its going on the right direction now.

P.S Blade was a flop in movie theaters remember, but its DVD release was a success.

By: ClubberFlubber

ClubberFlubber — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:28:36 +0000

For years ever since uggg….Dolph and then Jane, i’ve been waiting for a true Frank and he (Ray) deliverd. Unfortunatly the rest of the world would never understand from a true fan that the others were imposters, from the crapy mood I was in just thinking of sitting thru another shity Punisher flick (in my humble opinion 2 before this), this gave the rare few of us who waited for this gem to finally be told….ok jigsaw kinda suked and the premise of the flick was bad, but for those of us who waited for the violence of a true Punisher flick, it Deliverd!!!

lets hope theres a second and a third, I truly doubt it (because of main-stream reviews)

heres to hope and the love of true comic books fanboys everywhere

By: Hitman

Hitman — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:27:07 +0000

lets hope theres a second and a third, I truly doubt it (because of main-stream reviews)

heres to hope and the love of true comic books fanboys everywhere

By: اس ام اس عید نوروز پیامک

اس ام اس عید نوروز پیامک — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:08:36 +0000

thanks…

By: Rock

Rock — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:24:21 +0000

You know I’d really like to say this last thing about this movie and the series (If you mean series as part 1, 3 different times)

How hard is it to animate the pages of a comic book?

I mean really if they did that it would come off perfect. You might have to add some more dialog then what you would read in the books but Robert Rodriguez managed to do it with Sin City so I don’t see why they can’t just do that with this.

They need that narration that you get when you read the book. To me that’s always been a Frank Castle special. When you read a Punisher book you get the story straight from his mind. You see exactly how his mind reads a situation and how it computes the next action he will take. That’s one thing that’s been lacking in these movies (With the exception of the minute or so of narration you receive in the Jane movie when he’s getting ready for the final battle.)

This movie was very close to the Max stories with a bit of the old War Journal thrown in. I just wish these guys would just go to Ennis and say “Hey we need you to adapt the Max series into a screenplay.” That’s all they would really need, besides some actors who could live up to the colorful characters I’ve grown to love and hate throughout my literate journey with Frank. And I think someone mentioned it before but maybe it shouldn’t be a movie series. Maybe it should be a tv series on Showtime or HBO (The only two places you could go with this kind of story.) A weekly hour long series, with Ennis writing and maybe even directing???

There’s just so much realness in the Punisher universe and it burns me up to see it wrong over and over. This last movie was the closest by far but it was still a long long way from home. Ray Stevenson is the guy now let’s get something he can really sink his teeth into. Give us the Slavers, Give us Mother Russia, Give us BARRACUDA!!