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75Assuming you can appreciate the high level of gore and assorted sadistic weirdness, the action is satisfying.
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75Rarely have moviegoers seen such a two-fisted wrecking ball of vengeance such as the one realized here by Ray Stevenson.
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Dominic West (The Wire) plays a facially mutilated Mob boss as if he's in a broad SNL sketch.
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50It looks great, it hurtles through its paces and is well-acted. The soundtrack is like elevator music if the elevator were in a death plunge. The special effects are state of the art. Its only flaw is that it's disgusting.
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50The film works a bit better than the 2004 "Punisher" installment, the one starring surly, dislikable Thomas Jane as Frank Castle.
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50This is essentially a Steven Seagal movie without the Ponytailed One, and may appeal to those who enjoyed Seagal's rather bland, cookie-cutter action films.
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The script isn't what matters here: This is a slasher movie with guns, and, uh, huh-huh, that's pretty cool.
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50Along with torrents of gore, Punisher: War Zone has moments that are deliriously funny, because the violence is so awful and so casual.
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40No worse than the second. Still, it pales in comparison to the first, which starred Dolph Lundgren. And that, right there, should tell you everything you need to know.
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40Although it's possible to enjoy the first act and third act carnage without paying attention to the plot mechanics, the storyline itself continuously reminds us of the fallacy of Castle's quest.
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40Another violently unsuccessful attempt to bring this comic book character to screen.
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40The blood and gore quotients of Punisher: War Zone are extremely high and are sure to sop the appetites of the series' fans and virtual bloodlusters.
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38The acting is better than the script deserves and Lexi Alexander's cut-to-the-hearse direction lends the film considerable kick.
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38The dialogue is beyond clichéd, and performances feel cobbled together from other movies.
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38If most December movie releases are epic-length and Oscar-ambitious, then Punisher: War Zone has to be considered Hobbesian counterprogramming: It's nasty, brutish, and short.
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38A disappointingly schlocky effort that gives up on trying to make a realistic Punisher movie, settling instead on a hokey, multi-colored-neon gun rave best enjoyed in Rob Zombie's family room.
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30So unrelentingly violent that all but teen boys might as well stay home.
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30This awful sequel dispenses with any such pretense, its cartoonish characters running an endless gauntlet of hypergruesome violence.
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25There is no stylistic thrill to this blunt object of a callous action film. It's content to bludgeon the audience into numb resignation.
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25This is junk, a bunch of hard-R action scenes kept together by the thinnest of plots.
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20Does it have to be so witless, so stupid, so openly contemptuous of the very audience it's supposed to be pandering to?
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20Anyone with a modicum of good sense -- or a weak stomach -- will take it as a warning to stay the heck away from this literally and figuratively deadly "War Zone."
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0With its dopey fight scenes, grimy look and goopy gore, this movie is so far from ept that inept is the wrong word. It's anti-ept.
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0All Alexander proves in Punisher: War Movie is that a martial-arts-trained woman can make a film just as stupid, coarse and numbing as any muscle man.
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