This movie has its moments, and most of them involve cheap thrills.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2024

The film adapts the fun violence and dark humor of the comics but neglects the nuance, making it more of a guilty pleasure than a satisfying experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2023

Punisher: War Zone is a colorful, violent, almost perfect comic book adaptation which seems to be forgotten by some fans of the genre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 26, 2022

The latest incarnation of the heavily-armed vigilante goes so overboard with violence and vulgarities that the incredibly bad dialogue almost comes as a relief at times.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 28, 2020

It aims really low and hits its mark.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

Punisher: War Zone delivers a comic book movie with an emphasis on "comic." A hard-R celebration of overblown movie violence. A bold, brash, and bonkers splatterfest.

| Mar 31, 2020

The latest big screen incarnation of the popular Marvel Comics series is an overly violent snoozefest that lacks any humor or any other redeemable quality.

| May 22, 2019

Punisher: War Zone proudly wears its ambitions on its sleeve, and delivers exactly what its title promises.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 6, 2018

The only movie to get the moral and ethical complexity of The Punisher and his warped moral code is Punisher: War Zone, and it's a wild ride that is unmatched in the world of comic book movies

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 2018

It is inconceivable that this film has a higher Rotten Tomatoes rating than Elektra.

| Aug 29, 2018

A blithely depraved shoot-'em-up in which its glum protagonist cuts a retributive swath across a vast criminal underworld, Punisher: War Zone echoes back to the unthinking low-budget action movies of the 1980s.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 15, 2012

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: D- | May 6, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

The final damning verdict left by the American box office, whom far from raced out to see it, meaning takings of 8m leave Punisher: War Zone the lowest grossing Marvel adaptation to date.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 15, 2010

...stands as the best offering out of Hollywood that Punisher fans could've hoped for.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2010

One can assume another reboot will be in the offing after this monstrosity tanks at the box office.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 30, 2009

Part '80s action movie, part gross-out horror, this guilty pleasure is Saw meets Rambo . . .

| Apr 23, 2009

God I love my revenge films...

| Mar 18, 2009

Unlike more high-powered Marvel heroes like Spider-Man and X-Men, The Punisher has never enjoyed much box office success and this excruciatingly terrible film certainly won't change that.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2009