
All around GREAT!
Review created: 01/17/09(updated 02/02/09)

Don't think that because the character drinks, he's making a statement of opinion about this movie. "The Punisher" takes right after "High Noon," "Kill Bill 1 & 2," "Hulk," even Shakespeare's "Othello". Comic book-adapted or otherwise, this is a GREAT pic with comic relief (but inappropriate and prolix) and a cast of villains led by John Travolta who's mean business and mashes the hero up quite a bit. This is a revenge movie masquerading as (according to Tom Jane in the role of Frank Castle) a punishment drama, by which Frank means to say that he is not an avenger after all but simply a punisher. If you can tell the difference, please let me know!!
Also too, like "Hellboy" there are no monsters aside from the moral ones.
Frank Castle is an FBI agent whom a drug-and-prostitution tycoon ironically named Howard Saint (John Travolta) blames for the death of his son during a sting operation. When his entire family Frank's dad (played by Roy Scheider), his wife Maria (Samantha Mathis) and others are murdered by assault rifles, bombs and vehicle hit-and-run, Castle dismayed that his FBI had not arrested a single perp in five months takes the law into his own hands. Like Uma Thurman's Beatrix Kiddo in "Kill Bill 1 & 2," Castle marks for vengeance any and all of the murderous gang, from higher-ups like Quentin Glass to the more ordinary member of Saint's infantry. You may be able to guess the identity of the last person to be caught in the view of Castle's guns.
"The Punisher" delivers per expectations, a charismatic hero and chief villain, the former a dashing, muscular type content with being shot, stabbed, thrown against walls; the latter a bespoke multimillionaire who in one instance has a debt to a drug supplier of $50 million dollars and thinks of that as small change. (LOL!!)
Chases and overturned cars, weapons ranging from a genuine Bowie knife to bows and arrows, pistols to assault rifles, a woman (Joan, played by Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) who has a perfect figure, a beautiful face, and is a caring, empathetic supporter who can even stitch up a bad knife wound but works in a greasy spoon see 'em all within the two hours plus tenure of the movie.
Thrown in for comic relief is an obese fellow who sings Donna e mobile to his well-pierced idiotic but loyal friend (Dave and Mr. Bumpo, played by Ben Foster and John Pinette) That was funny!
"The Punisher" will give you a blast! Think and calculate plot holes Good Luck! There are NONE! I think we can look for a sequel given the statement by Frank Castle that he is going to dedicate his life to punishing criminals throughout the land.
Pay what EBAY wants. DON'T MISS IT!
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