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Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Director: Lexi Alexander
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From Time Out New York
Not the end of a trilogy but a second reboot, Lexi Alexander’s ultraviolent iteration follows the 1989 Dolph Lundgren vehicle and 2004’s self-serious Thomas Jane actioner with a cartoonish display of squib-crazy carnage. Ray Stevenson plays Marvel Comics’ mature-themed antihero, a homicidal vigilante whose skull-chest iconography, combat expertise and vast arsenal make him the bane of the criminal underworld. The violence is hysterically relentless: Craniums are cracked, exploded, caved in and pulverized. Punishing, yes, for all involved.Author: Stephen Garrett
Time Out New York Issue 689: December 11 - 17, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Lexi Alexander
Cast: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon
Rated: R
Duration: 107 mins
US Release: Dec 5 2008
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