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The Punisher/The Punisher: War Zone [Blu-ray] [2009] [Region Free]

Ray Stevenson (Actor), Dominic West (Actor), Jonathan Hensleigh (Director, Writer), Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: Blu-ray
4.6 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
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Format Subtitled
Contributor Colin Salmon, Michael France, Mark Camacho, James Carpinello, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Jonathan Hensleigh, Ben Foster, Dash Mihok, Laura Elena Harring, Wayne Knight, Samantha Mathis, Avi Arad, Ray Stevenson, Matt Holloway, Lexi Alexander, John Travolta, Doug Hutchison, Russell Andrews, Thomas Jane, Stephanie Janusauskas, Nick Santora, Larry Day, Will Patton, Roy Schneider, Dominic West, Julie Benz, Art Marcum, Romano Orzari, Gale Anne Hurd See more
Language English
Runtime 3 hours and 47 minutes
Colour Colour

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Double bill of action thrillers based on the 1970s Marvel comic strip. In 'The Punisher' (2004) Frank Castle (Tom Jane) is a retired FBI agent spurred into action after the merciless revenge killing of his wife, father, and son. Despite having no special powers, Castle adopts the superhero guise of The Punisher, and sets out to wreak vengeance for his dead family by tracking down the culprits responsible for their demise. All clues point to Howard Saint (John Travolta), a ruthless businessman and nightclub owner whose young son was mistakenly killed by Castle in a botched undercover operation back in his FBI days. In 'The Punisher: War Zone' (2008) the infamous vigilante Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson) returns seeking revenge for the murder of his wife and children, and when he discovers that a New York crime syndicate was responsible, he brutally assaults every member of the group. As well as severely disfiguring gangster Billy Russoti (Dominic West), Castle also unwittingly murders an undercover FBI agent. As a result, Castle soon finds himself pursued by the NYPD's special Punisher Task Force unit, which is joined by the dead federal agent's former partner, Paul Budiansky (Colin Salmon). Meanwhile, Russoti, now using the alias Jigsaw, has assembled a massive army of mobsters and killers to try and bring Castle down, using the surviving wife (Julie Benz) and daughter of the dead agent as bait.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9 - 2.35:1, 16:9 - 2.40:1
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.6 x 13.8 x 3.6 cm; 222.26 g
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Jonathan Hensleigh, Lexi Alexander
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 3 hours and 47 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 22 Jun. 2009
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Arabic, Hindi, Danish, Estonian, Dutch, Finnish, French, English, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Swedish, Portuguese
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0026R7BNE
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Michael France, Nick Santora, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Jonathan Hensleigh
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
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Great 1st film ,2nd film average.
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Great 1st film ,2nd film average.
Let me start off with ,i think the 1st film is better than the 2nd film ,but both have good action sequences in them etc ,both disc’s play well .,there are quite a few extras on both disc’s..worth watching ,but not for the faint hearted. 2 disc Blu-ray.
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  • Ali Assi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie👍
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2024
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    Great movie👍
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  • P. L. Milton
    5.0 out of 5 stars if garth ennis made a film
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2010
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    The two films you get are not Joined together warzone is another shot at marvels darkest creation.
    the punisher is ok with tom jane doing an admiral shot at the punisher but the film left an overall underwhelming feel to it that and his back story of being CIA left a bad taste in the mouth.
    Warzone is the stand out of the twin pack fast paced and taking heavly from Garth Ennis's punisher max titles it starts straight into the action, restores his original back story as a marine and is unrelenting in its vision of a man fighting the battles that cops wont. as my mate Ste said 15 minutes into the film "well thats already better than the last Punisher film".
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  • TheManFromACRONYM
    4.0 out of 5 stars Two underrated (for different reasons) movies. Sadly no extended cut of the 2004 movie.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2017
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    This two disc box set includes the 2004 movie 'Punisher' starring Tom Jane as the title character, and the later 2008 release 'Punisher Warzone', starring Ray Stevenson, both re-released in high definition blu-ray with remastered sound and picture.

    In 'The Punisher' (2004), when FBI agent Frank Castle is involved in a smuggling sting that sees the son of notorious crime boss Howard Saint killed in the crossfire, Saint orders the entire extended Castle family murdered in cold blood - but Frank Castle survives and, with the FBI unable to prosecute the killers of his family, begins a mission to take the Saint family down...

    In 'Punisher: Warzone' (2008), the Punisher is established as having active in New York City as a vigilante for a number of years.

    Castle infiltrates the criminal operation of crime boss Billy 'the beaut' Russotti (known so because of his dashing good looks and personal vanity), throwing Russotti into a glass crusher, horribly disfiguring him, and resulting in him renaming himself as 'Jigsaw' because of the patch work appearance of his reconstructed face.

    Castle also accidentally killed undercover FBI agent Nicky Donatelli, resulting in the 'Punisher task force' (in fact not a task force at all, just the hapless reject Detective Martin Soap, and Donatelli's vengeance seeking partner Paul Budianski left to their own devices by a police force who worships the Punisher as someone who does what they cant do) being put on his trail.

    Its fair to say that both movies - produced on a relative shoe string when compared to the huge budgets of more recent movies of the superhero genre - were much maligned at the time of their release, both critically and commercially, but look a little harder and theres a lot to be admired and enjoyed about both movies.

    The 2004 movie in particular - the limits of a low budget and a poor villain aside - has strong elements of both classic Western movies about it, as well as the old-school noir action movies of the 60's and 70's, as well as a smattering of humour. The movie also utilizes a number of scenes lifted almost directly off the pages of the comic books - in particular Garth Ennis 'Welcome Back Frank', but also Dan Abnetts 'Punisher: Year One', and Chuck Dixons 'Punisher: Warzone'.

    Tom Jane, whilst perhaps not visually as character accurate as his successor Stevenson would be, also nails the character of Frank Castle and does a great job of conveying just how damaged the character is, and the assassin 'The Russian' and Franks trio of disfunctional house mates are also likewise excellently cast.

    Warzones main influences meanwhile are the excellent stories of the Garth Ennis 'Punisher MAX' series - any one of which would have made a terrific movie in and of themselves - director Lexi Alexander instead made the movie an awkward mash-up of several of these stories, but in the process of doing doing so managed to do justice to none of them, and artistically butchering (as well as literally butchering) a number of the characters.

    What the film lacks in terms of story or highbrow themes and characterisation however, it more than makes up with wall-to-wall action, gratuity, violence and gore, and proves itself - if not a particularily great homage to the Punisher - to be exactly the kind of 'Good-bad' movie thats hugely entertaining in the early hours of the morning after a few beers, and whilst the 2004 movie is a favourate of mine, the 2008 movie is one that has grown and grown on me the more I watch it.

    In terms of special features, 'The Punisher' comes complete with deleted scenes, and excellent and illuminating directors commentary, an alternate opening set in the Gulf War illustrated by famous Punisher cover artist Tim Bradstreet, behind the scenes featurettes, and music videos.

    'Warzone' includes numerous featurettes, including a 'making of', 'training the Punisher', 'Weapons of the Punisher', and 'Making of Jigsaw' featurettes, as well as directiors audio commentary.

    In terms of criticisms - not withstanding any criticisms of the movies themselves - my main issue with this edition is that it does not include the extended cut of the 2004 movie or all of the deleted scenes that it included, which amalgamated both the animated alternate opening and the full 17 minutes of extra footage into one coherent story in a way that made it a much better film overall, and not only established Castles military background, but also reveals important details about how the villain Howard Saint is so easily able to come into possession of the information that revealed the identity of Castle and allowed him to murder his family. The 2004 movie also lacks Tom Janes brilliant self funded homage to the character 'Dirty Laundry' - viewable online. It also would have been nice if the original Punisher movie starring Dolph Lundgren collected onto this box set to make it truely definitive.

    Overall however its great to see both of these - for different reasons - underrated movies (in my opinion) collected into one box set.
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  • johnson Brian 10
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good double movie punisher the first movie with john t ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2018
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    A good double movie punisher the first movie with john t as the bad killing the family of frank castle then to be come punisher and sets out for revenge. The 2nd movie with the actor who plays rays brother in the movie as the punisher crimes unit detective and Dominic west the affair. as jigsaw .
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  • Aremess
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good duo of films.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2020
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    The first film (the original) is well deserving of the 5 stars. The second, although still enjoyable, is not in the same class and is best deserving of 4 stars. Again, I wish Amazon could give half stars as a 4.5 star rating would be fairer.
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  • FloriBa84
    5.0 out of 5 stars I love them
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2019
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    The first disc is OK, a little bit slow and sometimes boring, but a decent action movie. The 2nd one...oh my gosh... Dark, bloody and the action scenes... If you would like to see a good film with ++18 scenes, this will be a perfect choice! God Damn It Castle!
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  • Russell Moore
    4.0 out of 5 stars One great Punisher movie, one meh punisher movie.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2021
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    Warzone is easily the best big-screen adaptation of The Punisher. High-art it is not, but unapologetically violent, over the top, comic book style entertainment it most certainly is. Highly recommended for those who like the sound of that, not at all recommended for those who do not. By contrast, the Thomas Jane movie, while it has it's moments, is not a great Punisher adaptation, and will be unlikely to satisfy many fans.
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  • Angel Gago
    5.0 out of 5 stars Only if you like Marvel cinema
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2010
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    Well, The Punisher is a fabulous comic which always had been bad developed in films. This two DVD are not bad at all, especially THE PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, but no one reflect the real Punisher which fans are accustomed to see in comics. In my opinion you will not find any more than just two mediocre films only appropriates for a boring sunday afternoon.
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  • Brian Mcfarlane
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thank u
    Reviewed in Canada on 20 March 2022
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    Thank u great movie
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  • AshHood
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United States on 31 July 2020
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    Works with no problems.
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  • King Clash Media
    1.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre movies, but check the case!
    Reviewed in Germany on 1 January 2020
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    Movies are fine, but this came without the first movie... Just an empty space....
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  • Tony
    1.0 out of 5 stars Region locked
    Reviewed in the United States on 18 July 2021
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    My son didn't know it was region locked
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  • Maurie Buck
    5.0 out of 5 stars Original Punisher is good
    Reviewed in Canada on 13 March 2021
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    Liked the original Punisher, not to fond of the second one.
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