It was December 2008, and the Marvel film universe was just blinking in Disney's eye. Jonon Javre's "Ironeles' man" was a huge success in the box office earlier that year, and his post-credit Stinger-where Nick Hughes (Samuel L. Acksexone) thrilled Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Runior) to join Avengers. Disney will continue to purchase Marvel in 2009 and put that fondness of the avengers in action, using a decade-long period of ultra-dominating superhero in cinemas.

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However, before that, many superhero films were still an exciting hit-and-rupture, free from the possible homogeneity of MCU. The X-Men films were up and down, for example, and Marvel's characters like Daredeville and Electra were only accepted by fans. More importantly, not all of these films had nine figures. Many studios, while admitting that superheroes were money producers, were not always ready to invest money in them. It wouldn't happen to Osos Vedon's "The Avengers" became a billion -dollar hit in 2012.

In 2004 The film, however, was not a hit, earning $ 54.5 million to the global treasurer against a $ 33 million budget. Finally, in December 2008, the publication of Lexi Alexander's pseudo-Remeder "Punisher: A War Zone", a film that was eagerly awaiting the action quotation of Jenslig's film. The late Ray Stevenson took over the role of Frank Castle In the "war zone", which proved to be a bloody and owned a beautiful horror film, a bloodthirst that was more Sam Raimi than, well, much of Sam Raimi's own superhero price.

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It was also reserved. "Punisher: War Zone" eventually brought only $ 10.2 million to the box office against a $ 35 million budget (which was a drop in the superhero movie bin, even at the time) and was circularly rejected by critics. However, nowadays, the film is loved by certain people for his humor of Gallows and the absurd level of violence.

"Punisher: War Zone" was actually the third film adaptation of Marvel's "Punisher" comics, with Mark Goldblatt's film "The Punish" in 1989 (starring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle). The studios seems to have not been able to get the titular character Jew right. However, Alexander seemed to have resolved the right approach by making a movie "punished" that is even more beautiful than its original material. To clarify, the penalty cable was born Frank Castle, a man who eventually loses his family in the shooting in Gangland. (Who, exactly, loses and how it depends on the re -story.) Frank is so wounded by this murder that it becomes a costumed alertness, sporting a great frightening skull on the shirt. However, he has no superpowers, so he makes the weapons of weapons and continues to retaliate on the criminal underground.

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"Punisher: A war zone" covers the conflict made between Frank and Gangster named Billy "beautiful" Rosotti (Dominique West). Early in the film, Pansir threws Rosotti into a glass breaking machine, cut his face and left it. He survives, sews his face and changes the nickname in a jigsaw puzzle, cursing a counter-return condition. The film also starred Dash Mihok as a police officer in Yorkyork, Ieuli Benz as a surviving widow, and Doug Hutchison as Cock-Aouon.

As mentioned, the film bombed and bombed hard. It opened up to $ 4.3 million in its first weekend at the box office, which is bad even compared to Marvel's notorious movie bombs like "Electra". Despite having a modest budget, Punisher: War Zone has not yet been able to raise public awareness. Maybe the general audience just didn't care about the penalty.

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Critics, as mentioned earlier, did not care about "Punisher: a war zone". The film currently sports only 29% approval grade Rotten tomatoes Based on 112 views. The review at the Guardian He called it "humorous and disgusting". Ao Scott, in his review of the Yorkyor Times, said it was "so witty, so stupid, so openly contempt for the audience itself to be pampered." (And it takes a lot to offend the fans of the action of the slab.) Meanwhile, Roger Ebert gave him a generous two stars Of the four, calling the best made bad movie he has seen so far. Many, it seems, were not on the wavelength Alexander's length.

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The film, however, has attracted its share of agents over the years. Was shown on an episode of a comedy podcast "How did this do", And its hosts, Paul Sheer and June Diane Rafael everyone wanted how much it was. Patton Oswalt joined them in praising that, while even Alexander appeared to explain why she made the film as she did. She did not apologize, nor should it. They all cited the film's winter holidays as a possible reason for its failure. Many have "Punisher: War Zone" discovered in years to intervene, wanting their excesses and slope; It is rare that the study film is this hug. These days, many superhero fans are longing for the movie "Marvel", this spirits; Since then they have become too fat and safe for the audience for their own good.

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Alexander, unfortunately, was thrown in a prison after a "war zone" appeared. She has made only two films since then 2025: the Christian film "Lifri" directly at home and the atheist science fight film "Absolute Dominance". The latest film was made on a shoe budget, but its premise - all religions are fighting the blood tournament for dominance over the country - is wild. The time will come, however, when a daring, miraculous, ultra-blooded film like "Punisher: War Zone" is discovered. We just have to wait.