Punisher

Pros: It could have been worse
Cons: It could have been better

“In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law, to pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive; it’s an emotional response. ...

Pros: No CGI!
Cons: I want a director's cut!

My first thought upon hearing The Punisher was being made into a movie was, “Not again.” Hollywood tried it once in 1989 with Dolph Lundgren and the movie bombed--big. But that’s what they get for changing just about every detail about the ...

Pros: none really, maybe a few action shots
Cons: overtly cliche, characters devoid of depth, lackluster action

In the recent barrage of Marvel comic based films such as Fantastic Four and Daredevil, the trend has generally been hit or miss. Unfortunately with the Punisher, despite the potential for a great film, is part of the latter. Frank Castle (Thomas ...

Pros: Great story with little mass appeal. Comic-book on film.
Cons: Great story with little mass appeal. People want movies based on comic-books instead.

Ask not, ‘what is death?’ Rather ask, ‘when is death?’ ‘The Punisher’ is the story of an anti-hero. Actually, it’s something of a primer on the concept. In some sense it’s a simplistic exposition of the idea, but ...

Pros: Jane is great as the brooding "hero", moments where it really works, slow approach worked
Cons: some missed opportunities in script, ending felt like a let-down

I first became a fan of The Punisher character when I found one of the Marvel comic books back when I was about 10 years old. It was a darker character than I was used to, but over the years he became one of my favorite, if only because he was ...

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Cons: See review

After seeing the Lindsay Lohan flick Mean Girls, I was in the mood for something different, so I went to my local movie theater (only two buses away). I was planning to see Van Helsing but I decided instead to see The Punisher, which ...

Pros: Fun at times, some humor.
Cons: Predictable, missed opportunities, very violent.

The comic book industry has survived a number of setbacks over the years, going from feast to famine to feast yet again. These days comic book sales may be nowhere near the pinnacle of their halcyon days in the late eighties and early nineties. Still, ...

Pros: DVDs can be fast forwarded.
Cons: Everything

Back in 1989, Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr. made a fairly lame B-movie called The Punisher. It was based on a Marvel comic book character of the same name and the movie went straight to video. 15 years later, Thomas Jane and John Travolta made a ...

Pros: An entertaining vengance picture.
Cons: Hero's moral shadiness. Very violent.

The Punisher is a different flavor in the candy store of Marvel Comics recent cinematic adaptations. Unlike the rest of the movies (The Hulk, Spi der-Man 2, X-Men, etc.), this is not a ...

Pros: Somewhat faithful adaptation of the Marvel Comics classic.
Cons: See Review...

Does Good always have to be virtuous? Can it (good) stoop to the level of Evil perpetrating unflinching violence in order to vanquish the former? Is it ever right to take the law into your own hands when the law fails to deliver justice? ...

Pros: Some cool action
Cons: Just about everything else

I'll be the first to admit that I've never been a big fan of The Punisher comic. I like comics and all, but a character so mentally skewed is hard to sympathize with. That said, the work of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon on the 12-issue series "Welcome ...

Pros: The Russian; Laura Harring
Cons: That's Todd Parker as lame superhero; Travolta in parody of his bad guy schtick; stupid

Frank Castle (Thomas Jane), "the finest soldier, finest undercover op," is rather peeved. And terribly vexed. While at a family reunion in Puerto Rico, his entire family is massacred and he is left for dead. Months later in Tampa (As a testament to ...

Pros: Decent cast, well made, it's not Daredevil
Cons: cliched,uninspiring,pretty bad really

Given the success of Spiderman and X-Men, it's no surprise that Marvel Comics based movies became hot properties in recent years, with near enough the company's entire roster now licensed away to various movie studios, hell, even Man Thing ...

Pros: All around good cast
Cons: A few too many scenes of excessive violence

Just where does one draw the line on film violence? Where is that point at which violence goes from being essential to the story-telling, or the film's style, to being simply gratuitously excessive? While there's never been a line of demarcation drawn ...

Pros: Great acting and action. Bleak atmosphere
Cons: Some very heavy suspension of belief required

Frank Castle, aka, The Punisher, is the ultimate anti-hero. He fights for good, but he plays by his own rules, and doesn’t like to make nice-nice with anyone. However, he is not a deep character. In all reality, he’s a single-minded sociopath. He reacts ...