#Punisher war zone jigsaw movie#

If his, outstanding, performance in Dead Man’s Shoes is anything to go by, Considine would have been far better suited in the role than West. It’s rumored that Paddy Considine was considered for the role of Jigsaw when West initially passed on the role, but West reconsidered and accepted the role. I’m a fan of The Wire and he’s great as McNulty so was quite interested to see him in a role like this.

#Punisher war zone jigsaw movie#

These were moments in the movie I got some enjoyment out of as I wouldn’t have to suffer their presence another minute.ĭominic West was a huge disappointment. I’m really not ruining a movie like this by revealing that the characters listed above get messed up by The Punisher.

Another thing that really irritated me was the Oirish Parkour gang. It’s rare that every word spoken and every action taken by a character immensely irritates me, but that was the case here. Prime example being Doug Hutchison as Loony Bin Jim. The rest of the cast are, without exception, awful. There are a couple of good points, though Stevenson does a decent job as Castle/The Punisher, as much as can be expected with the material he had to work with. I should have gone with my initial instinct not to watch the movie. Obviously, opinions are subjective, but alarm bells should have been ringing when they dismissed the latest Star Trek as being rubbish and praised this instead. However, I was told that it was “brilliant” and “the best action film of the year”, by some acquaintances. I thought the Thomas Jane version was OK and the Dolph Lundgren version was entertaining enough, but didn’t like the look of this at all. I quite like the idea of The Punisher, but when it was released I thought it looked awful and had no intention of watching it. Now, I approached this movie with an open mind. Having turned his back on vigilantism, after becoming the evil he swore to eradicate, Castle is convinced to return by his weapons supplier Micro (Wayne Knight) to stop Jigsaw and save Donatelli’s family. He then sets out to seek revenge by kidnapping Donatelli’s wife and child and killing the Punisher. Jigsaw frees his brother Loony Bin Jim (Doug Hutchison) from a local asylum and recruits a band of undesirables. Rusotti doesn’t react well to his disfigurement, killing the doctor who breaks the news and decides to adopt the moniker ‘Jigsaw’ (may recognise this from another of Lionsgate’s titles).