The Punisher
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Movie Reviews of The Punisher
Movie Review: Punisher for 2004 should be much better!
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is along the lines of COMMANDO and all those Chuck Norris films: It is bad 80's action, only this time it's when such films had entered their death throes.Dolph is easily one of the worst actors in the history of cinema, and this adaptation of the famous comic book vigilante is about as accurate as Joel Shumacer's horrible Batman sequels. The Punisher Movie is to The Punisher Comic what The Phantom Menace is to The Empire Strikes Back.
That is why I am so happy about the new Punisher film which is currently in production.
The script has been put together by the sreenwriter of DIE HARD 3, and promises to be much more like the comics, and to be a dark, gritty action film. It has a much smaller budget than most of the other Marvel Movie productions, but it doesn't need any CGI or film-trick fanciness.
It just needs good treatment.
Though at the time as my writing this no actor has been cast for the lead, a character actor named Thomas Jane has been offered the part.
He may prove to be just fine in the boots, but we'll have to see.
Personally I believe the role begs for Stallone. He and The Punisher are both New York Italians, both in their fifties, and both tough and buff. Just look at some of the great cover art done (on some of the newer comics) by Tim Bradstreet. It makes the Punisher look just like Stallone.
While The Punisher is supposed to be 8 foot tall and 500 pounds, we need to be realisitic here. We don't want some Mr. Universe playing him with all the acting talent of a braindead rodent.
Stallone is just big enough, and he can act. Anyone who doubts his ability needs to sit down and watch the original ROCKY and FIRST BLOOD, and then watch his excellent, low-key performance in COPLAND.
And anyone who doubts that he could pull off the role of The Punisher should sit down and watch his menacing performance in the remake of GET CARTER.
America needs another vigilante film. FALLING DOWN was the last good one we had. DIRTY HARRY and DEATH WISH are fantastic movies. The new THE PUNISHER could easily follow suit.
Leave this Barf Lundren version to collect dust on the video wharehouse shelves. A new Punisher film is on the way and at the very least it could hardly be any worse than this.
Movie Review: Everyone hates the Punisher...
Summary: 3 Stars
Welcome to the real world kiddies...I see some of you whine "no skull on the T-shirt", "No big Van full of weapons", "No spiderman", hehe, ok, maybe the last one was an exageration...but what you have to realize is that this movie was made in 1989, Spiderman wasnt even a sparkle in some movie CEO's eye, and CGI's were still in their "lets just tie them to a rope and fly them around in the studio, then we will color the rope out later" phase. This movie was real life, gritty, dangerous, the hero took some beat downs, its not like Batman where everything is flashy and bright, and "The bat-card..never leave home without it" no, none of that nonsense, and please...stallone as Punisher... the guy is like 5'6 and has an accent no one could get over, Lundgren played it great, in my opinion he has always been an under-rated actor, always in the shadows of Sly and Arnold, maybe its cause he doesnt have an accent...hmm, anyway, its a good flick if you like the punisher, but are not a die hard fan, die hard fans will surely notice the gaps in story line... but they stuck to their guns, he lost his family tragically, he went renegade, he completly abondoned his life and went psycho...Its reality..you want flashy costumes, and funny remarks, and good comic reliefs, go see spidey and batman, on second thought, just see spiderman, or batman part one, the others will make you hate batman...If you one to see a renegade cop whos mind has seriously taken a walk off the map, and a funny little drunk british actor/bum see this, its a good flick, if you dont mind reality.Nick
Movie Review: This may punish some unsuspecting viewers.
Summary: 3 Stars
The Punisher was the last gasp of New World Pictures, one of the countless independent studios (along with Cannon and Empire) that tumbled into the dust when the home video explosion of the 80s gobbled up movie theater audiences. Adapted from a Marvel Comic Book, the movie stars Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle, an embittered ex-cop that is killing off criminals in revenge for the murder of his own family. Louis Gossett Jr is Castle's former partner, who wants to capture the vigilante more for personal reasons than those of justice. The story is both ironic and simplistic. The Punisher has so weakened the grip of the crime families, that it allows a new, far more sadistic threat to come in a take over. When the new crime organization kidnaps the old crime families children for the slave labor market, The Punisher must join forces with his hated enemies to help destroy an evil he actually helped to create. The movie contains enough bone crunching action to keep it from being boring, but just because Mark Goldblatt was an excellent editor of action movies did not make him a good director of those movies - he frames just about everything in medium shot. Lundgren says very little and looks more sleepy than burned out. The DVD contains some info on the cast and crew and the movie's trailer.Movie Review: i wanna see a remake of punisher
Summary: 1 Stars
To start off, this is a cheesy movie. This is a big dissapointment to marvel comics and a slap in the face to the fans, they really weren't going for the comic appeal in this movie. They only made this movie so they could try to make money off the name punisher and they didn't do well with that, Punisher is one of my favorite comic books and since they made all these other comic book movies like Spider-Man, DareDevil, X-Men, The Hulk and i think the punisher should be remade and everyone would go see it, I wanna see punisher remade cause it would be a cool ... movie and it can a sweet anti-hero movie and go for the comic appeal this time and wear the skull and get a cool actor to play him.Movie Review: Best comic adaption ever!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Punisher is a very entertaining action movie and the best comic film adaption I've ever seen. Just like the comic book, the movie is moody and very dark. It has the atmosphere that films like Batman have tried to capture. Dolph Lundgren is beleivable as the heartless hero, and Louis Gosset Jr. is unbeleivable. The fight scenes are also great and almost nonstop. In the movie, a rivalry begins between the mob and the Yakuza (Chinese mafia) resulting in a violent gang war groing on the streets. When all the children of mob members are kidnapped by the Yakuza, Dolph has to step in. Jeroen Krabbe stars as a ruthless mob boss and is pretty decent. As I said, all the action scenes are realistic and the movie hardly stops to breathe for it's full runtime. I recommend you buy this film right away if you're a fan of Lundgren or the comic book. You won't be disappointed