Punisher: War Zone

Punisher: War Zone (2008)

  • 26% of critics liked it
    (100 reviews)

  • 45% of users liked it
    (128,483 ratings)

Marvel Comics' vigilante character The Punisher gets another big-screen outing in this third film incarnation of the character, this time from Green Street Hooligans director Lexi Alexander. Fueled by revenge and aided by his trusted weapons expert, Microchip (Wayne Knight), vigilante Frank Castle… More

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In Theaters
Dec 5, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Mar 17, 2009
Lionsgate

Critic Reviews

  • Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies

    This was a terrible movie.

  • Ben Lyons, At the Movies

    Hopefully it's three strikes and you're out for The Punisher, as this latest attempt at creating another comic book franchise will prove once and for all that maybe this character just doesn't deserve the big screen treatment.

  • Claudia Puig, USA Today

    At one point, the Punisher is asked who punishes him. The better question for those who made this inane bloodfest is: Why punish us?

  • Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

    Assuming you can appreciate the high level of gore and assorted sadistic weirdness, the action is satisfying and the dark story is close to the tone of its Marvel Comics source material.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Punisher: War Zone is bad enough that it may remind viewers how lucky we have been this year to get two superior superhero movies in Iron Man and The Dark Knight.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Phil H


    This starts out with a brilliant gun battle...really cool stuff, reminisant of a sequence in 'The Crow', it really got me geared up for a good film but alas after this great shoot out the film really slows down and even gets abit boring through the middle. Nothing that much… More

  • Ken S


    Very silly, and fairly entertaining. The church scene makes my camera bits all tingly.

  • Jens S


    Marvel's most violent vigilante, The Punisher, gets another reboot with this film, even though the version with Thomas Jane was far from bad. Neither is this, it just feels all around unnecessary. The good news is: Ray Stevenson is a convincing, tight-lipped Frank Castle, who… More

  • Emily A


    Ugh, who the hell recommended this movie to me? Come on, fess up! I hated it so much, which is odd, since I really like Dominic West and Ray Stevenson. By all accounts, he should have been a perfect Punisher; he even LOOKS like one of Tim Bradstreet's cover drawings of Frank… More

  • Jeff "


    If you're looking for a Punisher film that delivers intense action then this is the film for you. Punisher: Warzone is a pure pop corn action film. Lacking an inventive story, but delivering on awesome action, this is an improvement over The Punisher film with Thomas Jane. At… More

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