![]() ![]() Following Dolph Lundgren and Thomas Jane, Stevenson is the third blatantly non-Italian-American actor cast in the role (Jon Bernthal was the fourth): in comics, it’s always been a minor grace note that the Punisher shares his ethnicity with the goombahs who are his main opposition, but in the movies it’s always been a straight-up anglo blasting Italian mob guys, Chinese mob guys, Russian mob guys and black gang guys. Hensleigh’s film came up with a new, overly-complicated origin for the skull-shirted vigilante, but War Zone reverts in minimal flashback to the simpler backstory of the comics – though it adds the detail that Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson) was in a seminary before he became a special forces instructor, grief-stricken family man and terror of organised crime (the best line is his stray thought ‘Sometimes I would like to get my hands on God’). This third stab at a Punisher movie takes the Incredible Hulk route of following up the last film (Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Punisher) but pointedly not being a sequel to it. ![]()
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