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The tertiary film adaptation of The Punisher, directed by Lexi Alexander and released in 2008.

Ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson), waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, sets his sights on overeager mob dominate Billy Russoti (Dominic West). After Russoti is left horribly disfigured past Castle (who accidentally kills an hugger-mugger FBI agent during his attempted hit), he sets out to become revenge on Castle under the alias of Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Forcefulness" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to accept Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more than of the mobster's evil deeds go unpunished.

A critical and financial failure upon initial release, the film all the same has a pocket-size cult post-obit, primary amongst them Patton Oswalt who gave it a Colbert Bump in this blog postal service. Having more in common with Garth Ennis's run on Punisher MAX than the last movie, the flick could exist described equally a giant monument to violence, stupid fun, masculinity and balls-out insanity.

This is merely one of two films (the other existence Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) produced nether the Curiosity Knights banner, which was intended to be a cinematic equivalent of the Marvel Comics imprint of the same proper name. Though not an entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this moving picture is besides a co-product between Marvel Studios and Lionsgate.

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This film has the examples of:

• x-Minute Retirement: Frank goes through one afterward learning that he killed a FBI mole. He actually tries to quit his job as a Vigilante Human being, but he's persuaded to keep in lodge to protect the Donatelli family from Jigsaw's wrath.
• Adaptation Amalgamation: The movie uses characters from both the mainline Punisher comics (Jigsaw as his presence in the MAX series just came most a few months earlier the release of the moving picture, Detective Soap, Carlos Cruz, and Microchip) and The Punisher MAX (The Bulats, Pittsy and Ink, Maginty, Paul Budiansky, and Don Cesare).
• Abled in the Accommodation: Downplayed. Don Cesare is still wheelchair-spring, but cognizant enough to still run his family.
• Accommodation Name Change:
  • Jigsaw's final name is changed from "Russo" to "Russoti".
  • Massimo Cesare'due south first proper name is changed to "Gaitano".
• Adaptational Heroism: In the comics Microchip eventually became an enemy of Frank before his decease, while hither he remains an marry to him throughout all the way to his murder.
• Adaptational Job Change:
  • In the comics, Paul Budiansky was a member of the NYPD similar Martin Lather. This version is an FBI amanuensis.
  • In the comics, Carlos Cruz was an ex-gang member and ex-Navy SEAL who temporarily took the Punisher mantle when Microchip and Frank had a falling out. In this movie, Carlos is a former gang member who helps Microchip procure guns for Frank.
• Adaptational Nationality: The Bulats are Russian here, not Romanaian.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: To some degree. A couple of characters (Cristu Bulat, Tiberiu Bulat, Pittsy, Ink, Carlos Cruz, and Maginty) are In Proper noun Only and non as nigh equally horrible as their comic book counterparts.
  • The Bulats serve as normal Russian criminals types, and Cristu is also a smuggler in New York Urban center though Tiberiu is referred equally being a Retired Monster. In the comics they were sometime war criminals who became human traffickers. Additionally, unlike the comics, this version of Tiberiu loved Cristu enough to seek revenge on Jigsaw for having him arrested, whereas both father and son in the comics pissed each other off enough that they've tried to kill each other.
  • Pittsy and Ink are at present father and son rather existence those two henchmen and serve as Jigsaw'due south more than sane underlings. In the comics they were equally as unhinged equally their boss in the comics, Nicolas Cavella.
  • Frank and Carlos Cruz had a blatant animosity in the comics up to the point they were constantly fighting each other during the latter'south appearances in the mainline comics. In this film, the animosity was toned down since Microchip and Frank remained permanent allies, and Carlos was never hired to replace Frank as the Punisher.
  • Finally, Maginty is now the gang leader in a Urban Freeflow Gang who practice their thing with Le Parkour. In the comics he was involved in a gang war where he kidnapped an elderly former "cleaner" for the Irish Mob and made him slowly slice up a living rival.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Inverted when Jigsaw — a villain who, in the comics, was part of the mob family unit involved in the Castles' expiry — becomes a straightforward example of Create Your Own Villain.
• Accommodation Personality Change: Martin Soap is less depressed and more chipper despite his Butt-Monkey status.
• Adaptational Wimp: Carlos Cruz, Pittsy, Ink, and Maginty, are lacking in the badassery their comic book counterparts had.
• Ax-Crazy: Jigsaw and his appropriately named blood brother "Loony Bin Jim".
• An Axe to Grind: "Loony Bin Jim" mortally wounds Carlos with an ax he found in Frank'south hideout, with leads to a bunch of really bad axe puns past LBJ:

  Loony Bin Jim: ( to Carlos) Hey, I axed you a question.
  Loony Bin Jim: Guess I'll have to axe again.

• Large Absurdity: War Zone moves Frank back to New York, every bit Marvel probably defenseless on to the whole every hero in New York affair and decided to get-go expanding a chip, like they did with Iron Human.
• Bottomless Magazines:
  • Averted. Punisher is about constantly reloading during his firefights — either conventionally or in the "New York" fashion.
  • There's also a very rare example of graphic symbol irresolute mags earlier they went dry but to make certain he won't run out of ammo in the middle of shootout.
  • Also Jigsaw and Loony Bin Jim give up only because they run out of ammo and they plainly haven't brought spare mags.
• Bullying a Dragon: The orderly really should accept been nicer to Loony Bin Jim...
• Canon Grapheme All Along: Inverted; Nicky, one of Jigsaw'south goons (who's actually a mole for the FBI) is not Nicky Cavella, fan-favorite villain from The Punisher MAX.
• Canon Foreigner: "Looney Bin Jim", the blood brother of Jigsaw.
• Cops Need the Vigilante: The NYPD are just making a token endeavour to catch the Punisher. The Punisher Chore Force but consists of Detective Lather who is later on revealed to be feeding Castle information, and Detective Saffiotti non simply lets Castle escape, he gives him his car keys.
• Darker and Edgier: Compared to the 2004 film, adding Bloodier and Gorier to kick. The film is one of the darkest Marvel films ever created, if non the darkest. Then much so that Curiosity created an entire new film subsidiary, Marvel Knights, to place its hereafter dark films under to found them as something a fiddling more edgier than the usual Marvel fare (the only other film to date to apply this imprint is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance).
  • Despite this, the film is as well a bit Denser and Wackier compared to the concluding two Punisher films thanks to elements like the unrealistic, over the top violence and Jigsaw'due south antics.
• Diagnosis from Dr. Badass: Loony Bin Jim, during his fight with Frank Castle in the bathroom, begins to say what is wrong with the Punisher during each accident:

  Loony Bin Jim: Blood in the urine, an early indicator of kidney failure.
  Loony Bin Jim: You should be seeing double right about now.
  Loony Bin Jim: That would be a torn meniscus.

• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Jigsaw and Loony Bin Jim genuinely care for each other. Also the Bulats, dissimilar their comic counterparts.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While he is a crime dominate and as mentioned below nether "Politically Incorrect Villain", a bigot towards anyone of Middle-Eastern descent (and his stance against helping importing biological agents is probably Businesslike Villainy equally someone who's constantly dealing with the FBI and NYPD probably doesn't want Homeland Security on height of those agencies), Gaitano Cesare doesn't approve of Jim beingness an Ax-Crazy, cannibalistic sadist, as he mentions having Jim locked up.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: Frank delivers a cruel beatdown to Jigsaw in revenge for him killing Microchip.
• Facial Horror: Jigsaw's confront, as always; after beingness mangled in a glass-burdensome automobile, he endured such serious damage that even extensive plastic surgery was unable to do much for the mess that his appearance had become.
• False in the Hole: Inverted. The Punisher puts a grenade inside a paint can and kicks it inside a room. A mook is relieved to see it's only a tin can, so he doesn't kick it dorsum out again. Then it explodes.
• Faux Affably Evil: Billy "Jigsaw" Russoti, though he does really seem to care for his brother.
• Flag Drib: Jigsaw wants an army to take on the Punisher, so says he'll practise what Uncle Sam does and recruit from deprived neighbourhoods. Cue Jigsaw standing in front end of a projection of the United states of america flag while giving a Rousing Spoken communication to diverse street gangs, with stirring music and culminating an OH-RAH!
• Gory Discretion Shot: When Loony Bin Jim kills the orderly, only his screams and the sound of his guts beingness ripped out are heard, but at one signal Jim can be seen pulling out his kidneys.
• Groin Assault: A rare example where it's the hero who's on the receiving end; where the fight between Frank Castle and Looney Bin Jim has the latter dishing out nutshots twice on the former.

  Looney: [after hit Frank in the basics] "Won't exist replacing that son of yours anytime soon."

• Guns Akimbo:
  • Punisher uses both pistols all the fourth dimension until he is out of ammo.
  • Given how inept Soap is with a gun, Budiansky just takes the pistol off him and covers Jigsaw and Loony Bin Jim with a gun in either paw.
• Heroic Cede: When Jigsaw and Loony Bin Jim threaten Castle to kill either the Donatellis or Microchip, Micro immediately tells Castle to shoot him even though he only knows the Donatellis indirectly, explicitly proverb "She's just a kid, Castle". Castle shoots Loony Bin Jim instead as he was threatening the Donatellis, but this leaves Micro to be shot by the rest of Jigsaw's goons before Punisher can take them out.
• Hollywood Atheist: Implied with Jigsaw when he mockingly tells Grace Donatelli that her mother is swearing to an "imaginary friend" when she swears to God that she doesn't know where his money is.
• Hollywood Silencer: Averted; During Castle'south attack on Jigsaw's hideout, Castle uses an M4 variant with a suppressor. The gunshots sound more like muffled cracks than a "fwip". Also, the Smith and Wesson model 500 he uses is fitted with a suppressor which makes the shots sound like loud thuds.
• I'm a Humanitarian: The beginning thing Loony Bin Jim does when he's busted out of the mental hospital is eat an orderly'due south kidneys.
• Karma Houdini: Tiberiu Bulat, one of the comic'southward notable monsterous characters, was last seen overseeing a Bad Guys Practise the Dirty Work to pave way for the Punisher. On the other hand, considering the large shoot out that ensued, it's very likely that he was killed past one of Jigsaw's men.
• Large Ham: Dominic West was surely having a ball equally Billy Russoti/Jigsaw.
• Line-of-Sight Name: Later on getting a await at his mutilated face and seeing a jigsaw puzzle, Billy decides to adopt this as a new moniker.
• Made of Iron: Frank Castle.
• Made of Plasticine: Anyone who is not Frank Castle. Some bad guys are gibbed in ways that should not be possible; early on, Frank headbutts a Mook so hard it pulls peel off of his face, and a mob boss is beheaded with a tactical knife.
• Mistakenly Attacked Mole: Skilful chunk of Frank's actions are motivated by his horrified reaction to killing a mole for the FBI and non realizing information technology until it was too tardily.
• My God, What Have I Washed?: The plot of the picture show is kicked off by Frank killing one of Russoti's men, Nicky Donatelli, simply to discover a wire on him and realize that Donatelli was actually The Mole for the FBI and thus Frank shot an undercover agent.
• Narcissist: "Baton the Beaut" Russoti is introduced checking out his reflection in a car rear view mirror. He doesn't take his disfigurement well, at 1 stage breaking down in tears on seeing his reflection. His Loony Bin Jim shows his brotherly affection by smashing every mirror in the room, and every other mirror he comes across so his blood brother won't exist bothered by his looks again.
• One Concluding Chore: The Punisher intends to retire out of guilt subsequently killing the underground FBI amanuensis Nicky Donatelli, however he'southward persuaded to continue "punishing" after Donatelli's family unit is endangered by Jigsaw. By the finish, it's articulate that despite killing a majority of the criminal element in Jigsaw'due south sick-fated "Punisher party", in that location are still criminals that demand to punished and Frank's not stopping whatever time soon...
• Please Kill Me If It Satisfies You lot: When Frank shoots a Mafiosi who turns out to be an undercover federal agent, he brings the widow a duffel handbag of money in compensation, but reacts calmly when she draws a gun on him instead, even advising her to aim at his heart and clasp the trigger. She only stops because her child walks in on them, though she doesn't make another attempt to kill Castle, only refusing to take his money.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Both Gaitano Cesare and Jigsaw himself refer to the people they suspect are getting the package the latter'southward shipping in for the Bulats as "the ragheads in Queens".
• Related in the Accommodation:
  • Jigsaw is presented as the nephew of Don Cesare, equally Jigsaw calls him "Uncle" and Pittsy says "I'g lamentable about your family" subsequently the Punisher kills Cesare.
  • Those 2 Guys Pittsy and Ink are depicted as begetter and son.
• Sadistic Choice: Jigsaw and his Ax-Crazy brother Loony Bin Jim requite Frank a literal one in the form of a Shoot the Dog scenario: if Frank chooses betwixt killing either the Donatellis or Micro, the brothers release the ones who were spared, otherwise they just impale all iii hostages. Although Micro offers himself to Frank to spare the Donatellis, the latter instead elects to Take a 3rd Option. He kills Loony Bin Jim instead, and Jigsaw retaliates by killing Micro. Although given Frank's last words to Micro ("You won't experience a thing, Micro") coupled with Micro's nod to Frank, it seems as if they both understood that no thing who Frank choose, all of the hostages would have been killed anyhow; past eliminating Jim, information technology gave Frank a brief window of fourth dimension to save the Donatellis. Once they are out of harm'south way, he and so brutally makes sure that Jigsaw pays for Micro's death.
• Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: In this poster ◊, Frank Castle is in a war zone and about to shoot you.
• See Y'all in Hell: Used in the concluding exchange between a mortally wounded Carlos, and Frank.

  Carlos: I'll meet you in hell, Frank.
  Punisher: If I see you lot anywhere well-nigh hell, I'll kick your ass out.

• Shout-Out:
  • Although the comic book Jigsaw has appeared long before the Saw franchise, near the finish of State of war Zone, Jigsaw says "Let'due south play a game" and then forces Frank to choose between the lives of Micro or the piddling girl.
  • Billy's postal service transformation is a shout-out to The Joker's transformation scene in Batman (1989).
• Spiritual Successor: This film is apparently both a sequel and reboot to the 2004 film, the same style The Incredible Hulk and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance were to Blob and Ghost Rider, respectively.
• Take That!: According to the manager, the scene of the parkour practitioners being brutally killed was a dig at the overabundance of parkour scenes in action films at the time, such as in The Incredible Blob and Live Costless or Die Hard.
• That Man Is Dead:

  Jigsaw: Baton is dead. From at present on, you call me... Jigsaw.

• There Is No Kill Like Overkill:
  • Frank kills a guy using a rocket launcher.
  • Frank kills Jigsaw via both impalement and immolation at the aforementioned time. Justified, every bit Frank is absolutely furious over Jigsaw killing Micro.
• Would Striking a Daughter:
  • You await this from Loony Bin Jim right off the bat... but Ink takes one of the Donatelli wall mounted swords, stabbing a female officer before going back to snort coke.
  • In the opening fight sequence, Frank kills a mob boss' married woman by snapping her neck when she tries to shoot him.
• Yous Have Failed Me: Afterward the plastic surgeon informs him that the damage to his face was also severe for any serious repair work to be performed, Jigsaw stabs the md in the head with a scissors.

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