Another week, another group of new movies out in theaters. The only really big release is Punisher: War Zone, which looks pretty terrible. Let’s see what the critics had to say.
Punisher: War Zone
Starring: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West
Director: Lexi Alexander
Plot: Frank Castle’s family is murdered by the mob so he becomes a vigalante known as The Punisher to avenge them. He faces off against the horribly scarred villain known as Jigsaw.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 12%
Washington Post: “Anyone with a modicum of good sense — or a weak stomach — will take it as a warning to stay the heck away from this literally and figuratively deadly War Zone.”
Noble Son
Starring: Alan Rickman, Mary Steenbergen, Bryan Greenberg
Director: Randall Miller
Plot: Eli Michaelson is a brilliant chemist who wins the Noble Prize. The night before he is to accept the award is son is kidnapped but Eli refuse to pay the ransom.
RT Freshness: 20%
Entertainment Weekly: “The director, Randall Miller, appears to be trying to cross a bad Elmore Leonard thriller with a bad indie-festival family-angst comedy.”
Cadillac Records
Starring: Adrian Brody, Beyonce, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Darnell Martin
Plot: A biographical look at the rise of record company Chess Records and the artists it represented.
RT Freshness: 67%
Critic Consensus: “What Cadillac Records may lack in originality, it more than makes up for in strong performances and soul-stirring music.”
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