Bad movies can be fun because usually
they are poorly funded and because of that they lack the studio
oversight that can prohibit creativity. They're allowed to deliver
moments where they audience goes “Did that really just happen?”
Bad movies like Rubber and
Story of Ricky provide
these moments in spades, but it's not that unexpected for films
outside of the mainstream. Punisher: War Zone
has many of these “did that just happen?” moments which is
surprising for a major studio film. It's like someone tricked the
studio head into letting an obscene, over the top level of violence
happen in this movie. Other big budget movies that pull this off
include Anaconda and
Deep Blue Sea. Did
Samuel L. Jackson really just get eaten by a shark and now another
shark is coming along to tear off his head while the first shark
swims away with the body? It's this level of insanity that we see in
Punisher: War Zone. But
what separates Punisher from
other fun, bad movies is that it is very well made. It's incredibly
well shot and well acted, and the special effects are all state of
the art. It's still undeniably a bad movie, but it's a very, very
good one, if that makes any sense.
