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Punisher: War Zone
Starring: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchinson, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight, Dash Mihok, Julie Benz
Directed by: Lexi Alexander
Screenplay by: Nick Santora, Kurt Sutter, Matt Holloway, Art Marcum
Release Date: December 5, 2008
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong brutal violence, language and some drug use.
Studio: Lionsgate Pictures
Domestic: $8,050,977 (80.3%)
Foreign: $1,974,864 (19.7%)
Total: $10,025,841 (Worldwide)
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![]() Tagline: Vengeance has a name.
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss, Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw.
With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
When Frank Castle first appeared as the Punisher in the Marvel comic Amazing Spider-Man #129 in 1974, the character took the comic book world by storm, ushering in a new era of anti-hero. Reflecting the growing moral unease and cynicism of post-modern America in the late 1970s and 1980s, the Punisher complicated the simple dynamics of good versus evil that had previously dominated comic book storytelling for decades.
Here was a bloodthirsty ex-Marine driven by rage over the deaths of his family at the hands of the mob, not a superhero, but a mortal man with extraordinary skills and unflagging determination, one who dispenses his own brand of justice - involving murder, torture and violence - to the corrupt.
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