Punisher: War Zone (2008) on Netflix
Five years after mob violence killed his family, former Marine Frank Castle wages a one-man war on organized crime as the Punisher, hunting mob enforcer Billy Russoti.
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Plot summary
Frank Castle, the ex-military man whose family was killed by criminals, who became a vigilante known as the Punisher, goes after a whole mob family and gets everyone except enforcer Billy Russoti. He tracks Russoti down and chases him into a vat that is used for crushing bottles. Frank turns on the crusher hoping it would take care of him but it doesn't. He survives but sustains very severe injuries that even with plastic surgery his face looks like a jigsaw puzzle. So he decides to adopt the name Jigsaw. Frank who killed one of Russoti's people who unknown to him is an undercover Fed, decides to pack it in. But when he learns Russoti didn't die and is looking for the money he entrusted to the Fed and will go looking for it at his home which means his family is in danger. So Frank tries to save them. But Russoti wants revenge on Frank so he breaks out his brother who is so crazed that he is committed to an asylum, to deal with him. And also another Fed who's a friend of the man Frank killed wants him too.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Punisher: War Zone (2008)
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- To evoke the look of the Punisher comics, Lexi Alexander and cinematographer Steve Gainer used highly saturated colored lighting with only three primary colors on screen at a time. Only after production wrapped did Alexander learn the comics she had been sent were accidentally printed in the wrong colors, a "happy accident".
- Thomas Jane pulled out of the movie in a letter to Ain't It Cool News, writing that what he would not do is "spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don't believe in".
- The film grossed $8,050,977 domestically and $2,049,059 internationally, for $10,100,036 worldwide against a $35 million budget, making it the lowest-grossing film based on a Marvel Comics property, below Elektra and Howard the Duck.
- Writer Kurt Sutter officially removed his name from credit arbitration on February 14, 2008, saying he did not deserve the credit because very little of his draft had stayed in the shooting script.
- According to Lexi Alexander, Freddie Prinze Jr. also auditioned for the role, and although she was impressed by his audition, Lionsgate Studios refused to let him take the part.
