Punisher: War Zone (2008)

Director: Lexi Alexander

Cast: Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle, Dominic West as Billy / Jigsaw, Doug Hutchison as Loony Bin Jim, Colin Salmon as Paul Budiansky, Wayne Knight as Micro, Dash Mihok as Martin Soap, Julie Benz as Angela, Stephanie Janusauskas as Grace, Mark Camacho as Pittsy, Romano Orzari as Nicky, Keram Malicki-Sánchez as Ink, Larry Day as Agent Miller, Ron Lea as Captain Ross, Tony Calabretta as Saffiotti, T.J. Storm as Maginty

Roger Egbert was spot on when he wrote - ""The Punisher: War Zone" is
one of the best-made bad movies I've seen". Viewed independently, it is
an ultimate men's movie and more fun to watch than all Steven Seagal
movies put together. This movie does not hold back on anything like the
wimpy Thomas Jane's Punisher, who was more of a schemer than a
punisher. That movie had its own reason to be liked in that it was a
brave move to bring an ultra-violent (Punisher has even used nuclear
bomb to kill an otherwise unkillable villain), gory and very dark
comic, which only had a cult following, to the mainstream cinema. While
that movie did not feel like a comic book adaptation at all, the story
being pretty ordinary and plot being too heavy, war zone is much closer
to the source material. Corny situations had corny, and extremely
violent solutions. Villains were perfectly cast and did feel like
Punisher villains and got what they deserve from a Punisher. The
accents were distracting in the beginning, but once you get used to
them (which is pretty fast, since everyone uses a fake sounding and bad
accent), you stop noticing it and focus on action, which is plenty. Ray
Stevenson was a perfect cast and comes across the perfectly believable,
imposing and intimidating killing machine as the Punisher. The
much-maligned first scene actually set the tone for rest of the movie
for me, when Punisher goes on a killing spree on the dining table,
killing everyone on the table, men-women alike, in different, but
extremely bloody way. That is Punisher for me. Perfect movie for fans
of Punisher and violent action movie fans in general.