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ORIGINAL: Halo14

Listen up couch critics. Stop your moaning!!! I would understand your complaints if this were a review of a movie like LOTR, or Terminator Salvation. BUT, it's a review of a very crap movie indeed. ONLY WORTHY OF ONE OR TWO PARAGRAPHS. So, Empire, keep up the good work. And to the rest - SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Have a good day.

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The acting is incredible, I’ve never seen something this terrible before. The thick accents are way over the top, especially that from the free-running rasta-Irishman. Somehow though, it seems to work, going from so bad it’s actually pretty good. The movie as a whole doesn’t take itself seriously and actually is a fitting B-Movie title.

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ORIGINAL: Kazuya

Well, the level of violence on screen is probably the closest thing possible, in terms of hitting that Ennis carnage. I liked that. The action scenes were fairly good, there were a lot of nods to Ennis' fans, characters, or variations of characters, from his sensationally good run on Punisher Max strewn about the film. Stevenson handles himself quite well, believeable as the world's premiere psycho vigilante. There should have been more character development however, Ennis manages to convey the inner workings of Frank through subtle means, and that should have been incorporated to better effect. And then of course there are the numerous other faults, the horrible performance from Doug Hutchison, possibly the worst N.Y. accent I've ever heard in my life. Talk about miscasting and then some. Colin Salmon is incredibly boring, the direction from Lexi Alexander is ordinary, besides the action which in all it's insanity is amusing (probably done by second unit) and the script feels like a couple of studio douchebags who quickly read through the entire MAX series and decided, "hey, let's cram as much of the shit in as possible and not give a fuck about character". That said, I took some enjoyment from the film, the aforementioned uber-violence is quite fun and Dominic West is hilarious as Jigsaw.

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ORIGINAL: porntrooper

Someone give Dominic West an Oscar.... fucking awesome!

When Puisher War Zone was first announced as being a reboot from the 2003 Thomas Jane film, I was a bit gutted.  I liked Thomas Jane as Punisher, but I thought the film was a bit lacking apart from two good scenes (The Russian fight being the highlight).  I thought that after the set up in that film, there was room to move Tom Jane to New York and really make him The Punisher. 

When the first trailers for War Zone hit and news of bad buzz around the movie came I was dreading it, so I missed it in cinemas.  I then heard from various people that it was a pretty decent action film so I got me a copy now it's on release in the US, and I have to say I really, really enjoyed it.  A perfect guily pleasure movie!

I was worried about Lexi Alexanders use of light, all the contrasting neons in the trailer put me off.  However, after 15 minutes of the film I really started to warm to it.  I was worried about the look of The Punisher, although Stevenson looked the part, I wasn't sure about the hulking great flak jacket he was wearing and the almost non existant Punisher skull symbol.  Again, after 15 minutes that worry went away and I just bought into the fact that Ray Stevenson could quite easily smash his fist through a guys face.  Admittedly though, I did miss the Punisher symbol, it's barely visible.

After 15 or so minutes of this film any worries just went and I realised that everyone taking part was pretty much playing this tongue in cheek.  The ludicrous Italian American accents were awesome, the OTT violence was so mental that it was obvious to me everyone involved was just kinda pushing it like little boys.... "How far can we go with this? Wouldn't it be hilarious if they let us show this guys face explode from the shotgun?! hahaha".  I can totally imagine those kind of conversations on set during the making of it.  It's mental. 

The real stars of the show though, the ones that really hit home how gut bustingly piss funny and awesome this film is, are Jigsaw and Looney Bin Jim.  Jigsaw in particular is just brilliant during every second of screen time.  I loved the scene when he has a little weepy breakdown with his brother, so his brother smashes the mirrors up.  Blatantly played for laughs, and anyone complaining about the wuality of acting is surely missing the point here?  As mentioned earlier, Jigsaws recruitment speech in front of the American flag was fucking fantastic, cut together with the rousing music and Jigsaw and LBJ marching down the street, brilliant brilliant stuff.  Dominic West, I salute you!

The epitome of a guily pleasure, Friday night beer movie. 

Just thinking of Dominic West's bonkers acting as he threatens the little girl and her mom in her house as he smashes up plates just makes me smile.  Best OTT bonkers movie villain since Bennett? He just maybe.

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ORIGINAL: kenada_woo

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ORIGINAL: Kazuya

Well, the level of violence on screen is probably the closest thing possible, in terms of hitting that Ennis carnage. I liked that. The action scenes were fairly good, there were a lot of nods to Ennis' fans, characters, or variations of characters, from his sensationally good run on Punisher Max strewn about the film. Stevenson handles himself quite well, believeable as the world's premiere psycho vigilante. There should have been more character development however, Ennis manages to convey the inner workings of Frank through subtle means, and that should have been incorporated to better effect. And then of course there are the numerous other faults, the horrible performance from Doug Hutchison, possibly the worst N.Y. accent I've ever heard in my life. Talk about miscasting and then some. Colin Salmon is incredibly boring, the direction from Lexi Alexander is ordinary, besides the action which in all it's insanity is amusing (probably done by second unit) and the script feels like a couple of studio douchebags who quickly read through the entire MAX series and decided, "hey, let's cram as much of the shit in as possible and not give a fuck about character". That said, I took some enjoyment from the film, the aforementioned uber-violence is quite fun and Dominic West is hilarious as Jigsaw.

He's class aint he?  That speech he gives in front of the US flag had me pissing myself.

Love this film.

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ORIGINAL: Timon

Three words:

Fist. Through. Face.

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ORIGINAL: Kazuya

Check your brain at the door dude, and get ready for blood and carnage by the truckloads. Fucking insane

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ORIGINAL: Halo14

Listen up couch critics. Stop your moaning!!! I would understand your complaints if this were a review of a movie like LOTR, or Terminator Salvation. BUT, it's a review of a very crap movie indeed. ONLY WORTHY OF ONE OR TWO PARAGRAPHS. So, Empire, keep up the good work. And to the rest - SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Have a good day.

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ORIGINAL: porntrooper

Someone give Dominic West an Oscar.... fucking awesome!

When Puisher War Zone was first announced as being a reboot from the 2003 Thomas Jane film, I was a bit gutted.  I liked Thomas Jane as Punisher, but I thought the film was a bit lacking apart from two good scenes (The Russian fight being the highlight).  I thought that after the set up in that film, there was room to move Tom Jane to New York and really make him The Punisher. 

When the first trailers for War Zone hit and news of bad buzz around the movie came I was dreading it, so I missed it in cinemas.  I then heard from various people that it was a pretty decent action film so I got me a copy now it's on release in the US, and I have to say I really, really enjoyed it.  A perfect guily pleasure movie!

I was worried about Lexi Alexanders use of light, all the contrasting neons in the trailer put me off.  However, after 15 minutes of the film I really started to warm to it.  I was worried about the look of The Punisher, although Stevenson looked the part, I wasn't sure about the hulking great flak jacket he was wearing and the almost non existant Punisher skull symbol.  Again, after 15 minutes that worry went away and I just bought into the fact that Ray Stevenson could quite easily smash his fist through a guys face.  Admittedly though, I did miss the Punisher symbol, it's barely visible.

After 15 or so minutes of this film any worries just went and I realised that everyone taking part was pretty much playing this tongue in cheek.  The ludicrous Italian American accents were awesome, the OTT violence was so mental that it was obvious to me everyone involved was just kinda pushing it like little boys.... "How far can we go with this? Wouldn't it be hilarious if they let us show this guys face explode from the shotgun?! hahaha".  I can totally imagine those kind of conversations on set during the making of it.  It's mental. 

The real stars of the show though, the ones that really hit home how gut bustingly piss funny and awesome this film is, are Jigsaw and Looney Bin Jim.  Jigsaw in particular is just brilliant during every second of screen time.  I loved the scene when he has a little weepy breakdown with his brother, so his brother smashes the mirrors up.  Blatantly played for laughs, and anyone complaining about the wuality of acting is surely missing the point here?  As mentioned earlier, Jigsaws recruitment speech in front of the American flag was fucking fantastic, cut together with the rousing music and Jigsaw and LBJ marching down the street, brilliant brilliant stuff.  Dominic West, I salute you!

The epitome of a guily pleasure, Friday night beer movie. 

Just thinking of Dominic West's bonkers acting as he threatens the little girl and her mom in her house as he smashes up plates just makes me smile.  Best OTT bonkers movie villain since Bennett? He just maybe.