Dominic West (The Wire) plays a facially mutilated Mob boss as if he's in a broad SNL sketch.
50
Village Voice
Village Voice
The script isn't what matters here: This is a slasher movie with guns, and, uh, huh-huh, that's pretty cool.
50
Variety
Variety
Along with torrents of gore, Punisher: War Zone has moments that are deliriously funny, because the violence is so awful and so casual.
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It looks great, it hurtles through its paces and is well-acted. The soundtrack is like elevator music if the elevator were in a death plunge. The special effects are state of the art. Its only flaw is that it's disgusting.
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Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The film works a bit better than the 2004 "Punisher" installment, the one starring surly, dislikable Thomas Jane as Frank Castle.
This is junk, a bunch of hard-R action scenes kept together by the thinnest of plots.
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Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
There is no stylistic thrill to this blunt object of a callous action film. It's content to bludgeon the audience into numb resignation.
20
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Anyone with a modicum of good sense -- or a weak stomach -- will take it as a warning to stay the heck away from this literally and figuratively deadly "War Zone."