The Punisher
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Movie Reviews of The Punisher
Movie Review: Terrific comic book movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Former FBI agent Frank Castle ( Thomas Jane) has just retired from the FBI as he celebrates his retirement with his entire family. However, Howard Saint ( John Travolta) has a diabolical plan on revenge for Castle killing his son, he sents out assassins to take out Castle's family leaving only Frank to survive. He then in turn becomes vengeful, he becomes a Skull T-shirt wearing vigalantee named "The Punisher" as he must take a bite out of crime and get even with Saint.
This is a highly underrated but well done adaptation of Marvel Comic's character, it is a slight improvement over Dolph Lundgren's 1989 version but this time with the skull logo shirt and faithful to the Punisher's origin. X-Men's Rebecca Romijin-Stamos co-stars as the lovely restraunt owner who befriends the title hero, it does have some brutality and dark humor to help with the movie.
The DVD has some good featurettes, a music video, a trailer to the recently released video game of "Punisher", Audio Commentary, Deleted Scenes and crisp Sound & picture quality.
This movie deserves another look, it's a very much grown up Marvel comic that is quite different from any of the other recent Marvel Movies alongside the Blade trilogy.
Movie Review: WOW...I should have saw this one on the BIG screen!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this movie without ever seeing it and knowing that many critics had bashed this one pretty bad. Thanks to some of the amazon.com reviewers giving it 4 or 5 stars, I thought maybe it would be better than the critics thought and I knew it had to be much better than Daredevil. This movie is so much fun from start to finish! Way better than Daredevil or The Hulk and to me just as good as the first two Spiderman films. The action is good throughout without going too over the top and the creative kills were a nice touch to an already violent movie. Tom Jane nails the part of Frank Castle here and is a joy to behold as his character changes from family man to a one man assault team. I heard John Travolta went over the top here, but to me he plays a pretty laid back bad guy and I like what he did with this role. Yes, the neighbors are a little annoying (they were in the comics too), but there screen time is limited. The only character I really didn't was the model turned actress who played the third neighbor. She just couldn't act and got on my nerves fast. This is a must buy for all action and comic hero movie fans out there! This one will be watched many times in the coming weeks. High replay value = A worthy purchase.Movie Review: Without prejudice...
Summary: 5 Stars
Not being reader of comic books and not having noticed that this film was base on a Marvel Comic hero, I watched this movie as though it were another Action/Special Effects/Fire and Explosions escape film. It was only about a half hour into this rather violent picture that it became apparent that the characters were just too off the wall NOT to be comic book creations. Now Tom (aka Thomas) Jane is a worthy actor to portray such heroes: he certainly is buff and the camera concentrates more on his rather magnificent shirtless torso than on the story (a good choice in this case). John Travolta continues his survey of just plain evil guys, and the good guys equal the bad guys as far as character portrayal. The concept of Revenge (read Punishment) is developed a bit slowly because of Jane's character diversion of becoming an alcohol and hiding in a rooming house with some pretty absurd characters. But given the genre of comic book stories, this one stands up pretty well. It is so obvious that there will be more sequels (if this film makes any money on the world market) unless this singular effort becomes 'toast' like about every character in this LaLa Land movie. Yet, cheers for Jane and Travolta!
Movie Review: Marvels best movie to date
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok I have something I need to say about this movie and its that "Its better than Spider Man 2" , ok before you go crazy and start to hope all the evil things in the world happen to me. Think for a second ok, Spider man 2 is a great and by far one of the greatest films to date. But The punisher is a film that we can all relate to, spider man at times has to be an inosint film so that younger children can see it. the punisher throws all that away so that you can really see what it would be like for a man who has lost it all. Spider man is great and exceeds in terms of visual affects and special effects and overall action because it had a greater production budget of 200 million dollars. But the punisher looks incredibly great at only a 33 million dollar budget. You have to admit that they had a better team working on the punisher than Spider man. And for those of you the\at read the comics like myself, the film stayes true to the comic fully, except for the fact that the story took place in tampa bay florada and in the comics it was New York city, but that's not that big of a deal because when you see the movie you think one thing and one thing onbly this movie is perfect.Movie Review: The Punisher
Summary: 5 Stars
The Punisher walks through the world we all know,a world darkened by war,crime,cruelty and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees-only his fierce intelligence,his years of combat experience and,above all, his iron determination to avenge those wronged by society's villians.
THE SPEICAL FEATURES IN THIS DVD ARE:
.Keepin' it Real: The Punisher Stunts
An in-Depth Look at Death-Defying Stunts.
.Army of One: The Punisher Origins-Background on the evolution of the Punisher comic book,Featuring an Exclusive Interview with the Comic Book Writer Garth Ennis.
.War Journal:On the Set of The Punisher-A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the Film.
.Music Video-Step Up, Peformed by Drowning Pool.
.Sneak Peek Trailer-of the punisher Video Game.
.Drawing Blood:Bradstreet Style: An interview with the Cover Artist of The Punisher.
.Audio Commentary with Director Jonathan Hensleigh.
.Deleted Scenes
.5.1 Dolby Digital Digital Surround EX.
.Widescreen Format
.English and Spanish Subtitles