Synopsis:

A movie of The Punisher that feels more in line with the character and takes out the overindulgence the movie tends to have.

Intentions:

I could see what they were tying do with the movie, but it was burred under a lot of over the top moments.

Change List:

- Trimmed the amount of time Punisher(Frank) stands on the mobs dinner table - Cut some of the mob people at the tables deaths. He’s sitting in one spot too long and needs to be moving faster or there is just no way he is surviving this scene. - Speed up the kicking the soup into the guys face by 50%. Again, it just moves too slow. - Trimmed some of the time spent hanging from the chandelier. Same reasoning as the rest of this scene. - Cut the Jumpy Flippy Guys at the docs minus the one scene where they pick up the cash. Now when Billy say to “do your monkey thing” it now has different context, but we are not supposed to like this guy. - Moved the scene when Billy (not jigsaw yet) finds out Nicky was a rat to after the Basement scene with Budiansky (who I will now just call Booty) and Soap meet. This way I can cut the whole plastic surgeon part that directly rips off Batman 89. - Cut the shot of the plastic surgeon with the scissors in his head. He doesn’t exist in this cut of the movie. Now when Pittsy is looking away it’s because it’s the first time seeing Jigsaw. - After Jigsaw breaks in to get Loony Bin Jim (LBJ) I cut the scene after LBJ says “no brother, fatso’s mine”. He get’s to become too much right away and this character needs to be dialed back. Sometimes it’s just better to hint. More creepy that way. - Cut LBJ breaking all the mirrors. We only see him breaking one. The scene as a whole feels too silly otherwise. - At Micros house when Frank says that he’s done Micro talks him back by reminding him that Jigsaw will be going after Mrs Donatelli and her daughter. So I cut away after Frank says Jigsaw is the last one and he’s done. Again I am cutting the jumpy flippy guys. There is no need for this subplot. Frank knows where the Donatelli’s live. He was just at their home trying to drop off cash. So him showing up to rescue them later still works because he is only staying around to stop them from getting killed anyway. - Cut Frank and Booty fighting and Frank getting arrested. That also means he doesn’t sit in the back of the police car. Soap and Booty said earlier that they were going to be listening to the police band and listen for what crimes are happening, so if Booty hears there is a call at his friends widow’s home, it’s not odd they would also show up to check it out. We don’t need Frank to tell them to go there. - Slight rearrangement of scenes at the Donatelli home. - Cut Booty asking Soap how Frank escaped from the car. - Cut LBJ making a cat sound in the interrogation room at the station. - During the Jigsaw recruitment speech I never cut back to Jig and LBJ because I don’t like the flag floating behind them. Again the movie just goes too far. So I am using scenes from the special features and some fan films off YouTube as cutaways to represent what Jig is talking about in those moments. - Cut scene at police station when Booty tells Soap that he is helping Soaps Partner (meaning Frank). Booty has no reason to suspect this now. - Cut shots of LBJ walking around. - At the raid in the Hotel, cut shot of guy smoking in the elevators head exploding. - Trimmed fight between LBJ and Frank to remove LBJ dialog. He comes across a bit more menacing fighting silent. - Cut Franks line at the end of the hotel scene “This is just the beginning”, It doesn’t fit. - Cut LBJ random laughing through out the movie where I could.

Additional Notes:

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Other Sources:

Punisher War Zone Blu Ray Fan Films: - Killzone - Skull - No Mercy Music: - Apocalyptica : Cohkka - Filter: Hey Man, Nice Shot - Metallica: Welcome Home Sanitarium (string quartet cover) - Quake Soundtrack: Various Tracks - Zombie (Acoustic Cover by Dave Winkler)

Special Thanks:

Thank you Dwight Fry for helping to make this release the best could possibly be.