Punisher: War Zone

Punisher: War Zone
Punisher: War Zone

You know sometimes you just want to watch stuff being blown up and bad guys having their heads blown off? Well, here’s one for you – Punisher: War Zone. Up there with the previous Thomas Jane outing (and probably better than the Dolph Lundgren one from years back that I’ve not seen), this time Ray Stevenson dons Frank Castle‘s skull-emblazoned shirt and kicks some ass. And decapitates some heads. And kneecaps some lower limbs.

Plot-in-a-nutshell: Castle kills someone he shouldn’t then goes out to kill lots and lots of people, very violently, to make up for it.

It’s a balls-out action film. Don’t expect a huge plot. Stevenson does a decent job as Castle, not saying much, brooding when he’s not killing people and with the occasional marginally pithy one-liner. Basically, he’s a big scary-looking guy in body armour. Which is what he should be.

The villain of the piece is Jigsaw (Dominic West) and he bears a remarkable resemblance to Tommy Lee JonesTwo-Face from one of the shittier Batman films (Batman Forever, I think – I try to blank them from my memory). Not just visually with a disfigured face, but in the way he acts. Strolling along full of too much self-confidence, trigger happy… though not as snappy a dresser. I swear in one scene he’s stolen Ernst Blofeld / Dr Evil’s white high-collared number.

Let’s face it, the only reason for watching/reading Punisher is for the gore and the violence. War Zone has it in spades. Chuck any pretence of story out of the window along with half a dozen bad guys, line all of The Punisher’s friends up as potential cannon-fodder, lock and load.

Total, utter, mindless violence. Top notch beer, chips ‘n’ dip movie viewing. One to watch when the other half is off out with her mates. Worked for me!

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