Punisher: War Zone Critic Reviews

Assuming you can appreciate the high level of gore and assorted sadistic weirdness, the action is satisfying.Read the full review

Dominic West (The Wire) plays a facially mutilated Mob boss as if he's in a broad SNL sketch.Read the full review

It 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.Read the full review

Along with torrents of gore, Punisher: War Zone has moments that are deliriously funny, because the violence is so awful and so casual.Read the full review

This 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.Read the full review

If 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.Read the full review

The dialogue is beyond clichéd, and performances feel cobbled together from other movies.Read the full review

So unrelentingly violent that all but teen boys might as well stay home.Read the full review

This is junk, a bunch of hard-R action scenes kept together by the thinnest of plots.Read the full review