The Punisher does things with a knife in the first five minutes that wouldn’t look out of place in a Hong Kong action movie. People are shot, stabbed, decapitated, impaled, burnt and exploded in Punisher: War Zone.
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It’s cast full of character actors doing what character actors do best just with extra blood. Wayne Knight pops up too if anyone remembers him from the 1990s.
Dominic West chews the scenery to mush as Jigsaw as does Doug Hutchinson as his brother Loony Bin Jim. Actions speak louder than words especially when the action is slicing off a mafioso’s head. Which is really the perfect way to introduce an action hero. Ray Stevenson doesn’t have any lines for the first twenty minutes of the film. Alexander knew this too and although her budget might not have allowed her to hire the best she got the best she could and put them through their paces in the dimly lit alleys and abandoned hotels of New York. You can apply all the torn flesh and fake blood you want but if the stunt person or actor can’t react appropriately or exaggeratedly then there’s no point. If a punch or a bullet doesn’t look like it hurts than it ain’t worth jack. Selling the hit is as important as delivering it. Next come the blood squibs, weapons and legions of stunt people.
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All an action movie needs is a good hook and a family in danger is often enough for any action fan worth their salt. I get the feeling that director Lexi Alexander – herself a former stuntwoman and world champion kickboxer – knew this and put all her effort into making the kind of action movie she wanted to make. The plot of Punisher: War Zone is, to put it kindly, pretty basic. The Punisher – having accidentally killed an FBI agent during his raid – retires but Jigsaw brings him back in after threatening the agent’s family. This Machiavellian mobster survives and becomes the fleshy patchwork villain Jigsaw (Dominic West). After killing an ageing mob dealer he tracks down another mob boss and puts him into a glass crusher.
The Punisher (Ray Stevenson) is waging a one-man war against the mob. It’s a bold, brutal, underappreciated action movie and it paved the way for the more violent Marvel movies over the next decade. Put together a list of the most violent films ever made and you’ll probably see it up there alongside the 2008 Rambo film and the recent Indonesian release The Night Comes For Us. Punisher: War Zone is one of those films. There are very few films where – in one scene – the hero punches through a goon’s head and then turns around and blows another goon’s face off.
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