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Release Date:
5 December 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
Vengeance has a name.
Plot:
After hunting down and killing hundreds of violent criminals, Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, faces his most deadly foe yet: Jigsaw. | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination
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(390 articles)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ray Stevenson | ... | Frank Castle | |
| Dominic West | ... | Billy / Jigsaw | |
| Doug Hutchison | ... | Loony Bin Jim | |
| Colin Salmon | ... | Paul Budiansky | |
| Wayne Knight | ... | Micro | |
| Dash Mihok | ... | Martin Soap | |
| Julie Benz | ... | Angela | |
| Stephanie Janusauskas | ... | Grace | |
| Mark Camacho | ... | Pittsy | |
| Romano Orzari | ... | Nicky | |
| Keram Malicki-Sánchez | ... | Ink | |
| Larry Day | ... | Agent Miller | |
| Ron Lea | ... | Captain Ross | |
| Tony Calabretta | ... | Saffiotti | |
| T.J. Storm | ... | Maginty |
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Also Known As:
The Punisher 2 (USA) (working title)
The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank (USA) (working title)
The Untitled Punisher Sequel (USA) (working title)
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The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank (USA) (working title)
The Untitled Punisher Sequel (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for pervasive strong brutal violence, language and some drug use.
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103 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:18 |
Singapore:M18 |
Ireland:18 |
Japan:R-15 |
Australia:MA |
Malaysia:18SG |
Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) |
Mexico:C |
Argentina:13 |
South Korea:18 |
Finland:K-18 |
Norway:15 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Netherlands:16 |
USA:R (certificate #44752)
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The character of Microchip was considered for the first Punisher, but director Jonathan Hensleigh had such an intense hatred of the character that he was left out of the final draft.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: At one hour into the movie, Jigsaw is sitting on stairs firing a gun. When the gun is out of bullets, you hear him yell "fuck!" but if you look at his mouth, he is saying "shit!"
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Quotes:
Martin Soap:
[after Agent Budiansky finds out that the Punisher is Soap's partner] You know, you're not as stupid as you...
[Agent Budiansky stares at him angrily]
Martin Soap: I didn't say that.
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[Agent Budiansky stares at him angrily]
Martin Soap: I didn't say that.
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Movie Connections:
References The Punisher (2004)
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Soundtrack:
Take Me Away
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Why isn't Thomas Jane involved?Is this movie based on a book?
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Roger Egbert was spot on when he wrote - ""The Punisher: War Zone" is one of the best-made bad movies I've seen". Viewed independently, it is an ultimate men's movie and more fun to watch than all Steven Seagal movies put together. This movie does not hold back on anything like the wimpy Thomas Jane's Punisher, who was more of a schemer than a punisher. That movie had its own reason to be liked in that it was a brave move to bring an ultra-violent (Punisher has even used nuclear bomb to kill an otherwise unkillable villain), gory and very dark comic, which only had a cult following, to the mainstream cinema. While that movie did not feel like a comic book adaptation at all, the story being pretty ordinary and plot being too heavy, war zone is much closer to the source material. Corny situations had corny, and extremely violent solutions. Villains were perfectly cast and did feel like Punisher villains and got what they deserve from a Punisher. The accents were distracting in the beginning, but once you get used to them (which is pretty fast, since everyone uses a fake sounding and bad accent), you stop noticing it and focus on action, which is plenty. Ray Stevenson was a perfect cast and comes across the perfectly believable, imposing and intimidating killing machine as the Punisher. The much-maligned first scene actually set the tone for rest of the movie for me, when Punisher goes on a killing spree on the dining table, killing everyone on the table, men-women alike, in different, but extremely bloody way. That is Punisher for me. Perfect movie for fans of Punisher and violent action movie fans in general.