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Summary: Dig a hole and bury this one
Review: This adaptation of The Punisher was really weak. Truely, there is nothing great about this movie at all. This movie is a total slap in the face to all Marvel fans everywhere because the name of the Punisher was dragged through the mud, shoved into an incenerator and chopped up by a rusty carving knife.First and foremost, the Punisher is NOT some bum who lives in the sewers. He's a vigilante who takes the law into his own hands. That and the script is awful! You can't tell me that you could be impressed with this one. I give it a zero. This movie should not have been made and if you want the real Punisher, read the comics because you'll never get the true feel in this bad job of a movie.
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Summary: It's a Joke...
Review: 1989 to early 1991 was a not so bright moment in Marvel Movie history when the company was doing business with low budget film companies to get their films made and the end results of these endeavors were very low budget/cheap looking films that always went right to video. Thankfully only a small handful of these films were ever made. The Punisher was one of them. Dolph Lundon played a former cop who wages a brutal war against the underworld after his family is killed by gangsters. Not relateing in any way to the Punisher comic except in name, this film plods it's way through an hour or so and ends in a bloody/cheesy looking climax
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Summary: Not entirely bad, but never any good...
Review: I'll admit, Dolph Lundgren is an inspired choice to play the Punisher, but this film just isn't all that good. Lundgren looks bored all the time and Louis Gossett Jr. looks very embarrassed to be in this movie. The plot is about a gang war that erupts in the city and several children are stolen by the Yakuza. The Punisher is sent to the rescue, and there are tons of gunfights, fistfights, and swordfights. One scene is really wasted, though. At one point, Lundgren and Jeroen Krabbe arrive in a room full of ninjas. They simply open fire and kill them all. Bummer. I was hoping for a cool fight scene, not some bland massacre. This movie seems to have a bad case of ADD. Random scenes of violence are intermixed with scenes of Lundgren riding on a motorcycle in the sewers to Krabbe whining about being in the mafia. The script never finds any real focus, and the movie just dies on the screen. There are some cool action moments, but after a while, the movie gets tedious.
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Summary: Awesome action, SO-SO acting
Review: This movie has always been a favorite of mine. The story is fairly original and the acting is sufficient but not outstanding (this is to be expected in action movies though). Dolph Lundgren was good at making The Punisher seem like the silent hunter constantly stalking it's prey. The action scenes are well executed and the Martial Arts sequences are well done considering there was minimal choreography done while filming to ensure a more realistic look. Fans of the B action movie genre will most likely take to this film but in any case I'd say rent it first before deciding to purchase it.
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Summary: Reevaluation of my earlier review.
Review: My review was putting it frank was bad so I have decided to rereview it again. Dolph Lundgren stars as a persumed dead policeman turned vigilante known as "The Punisher" who kills every low-life he feels deserves to be punished only to give the mob a break when the Yakuza decides to muscle in on the mob kidnapping the mobster's kids in the process. Louis Gosset Jr. plays the ex-partner who believes his partner is really alive and is "The Punisher" meanwhile bulllets fly and people die. Dolph Lundgren thankfully only says 5 words in the entire flick speaking chores are handled by Louis Gosset Jr. and Jeroen Krabbe who steals the show as the villian. However Dolph gets to display his true talents when he fights and shoots. Dolph also plays the part of "The Punisher" pretty well wether being tortured by nasty yakuza guards, getting his tail kicked by a female ninja or shooting 300 ninjas with an M.16 Dolph keeps the flick going at a relentless pace making the movie an actionpacked fun movie. Although people hate this it's more for the principal of the skull on the shirt, nost can't rise above it but I liked it and even though this is a B.movie it delivers the goods. Action movie fans can do worse. Overall I like Dolph but I also enjoy other great movies from Van Damme and Stallone AND "The Punisher" has a soft spot in my heart. And I am proud to say that I recommend this.
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Summary: If zero stars were possible, that's what I would have given.
Review: This movie is awful. I'm not someone who's coming in here saying that action movies blow and that this one is just the worst of the bunch. Oh no. My problem with this lies in the fact that it is a, shall we say, less than faithful adaptation of the comic and that Dolph Lundgren couldn't glimpse into the tortured soul of the man they call the Punisher, a.k.a. Frank Castle, with an electron microscope. Dolph Lundgren lumbers around this picture like a lame horse, completely devoid of the Punisher's seething rage; instead, that rage translates into a blank stare. ... The movie has the Punisher living in the ... sewer and riding a motorcycle. He does neither one in the comic. The fact that this is the only big screen representation of such an awesome character and such a favorite character of mine has haunted me for years. When I walk past this flick on the shelf in a video store or something and I see it, my mood automatically turns sour and I can't help but mumble under my breath in contempt for the butchers who perpetrated such an injustice on this comic. Don't bother with this movie if you are looking for a good adaptation of the comic. If you are either an action fan, or one of the lobotomized few who are actually devoted Dolph Lundgren fans, go right ahead.
I hope to God that they decide to make another movie of the Punisher and bury this one underground. If they do, they should make sure to get someone who can do the action thing as well as ACT, get a director who knows what the hell he is doing, and maybe just go ahead and follow the exact storyline of the more recent Garth Ennis trade paper back "Welcome Back, Frank." That right there is the formula for doing this charcter true cinematic justice.
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Summary: The Best Marvel Comic Flick EVER
Review: Wonderful A comic Book Masterpeice . Lundgren is Fantastic as the Revenge bound Ex-Cop Frank castle. Who has sworn to punish the Guilty for the death of his Family.Highly Suggested To any comic fan of action flick fan.
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Summary: shootem
Review: I loved this movie,about 90 badguys get wasted in the
first 15 minutes! way to go Dolph! however the movie begins to
peter but oh well
its fun
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Summary: Do you like action movies with Arnie from the 80s ? OK
Review: The only star not given is for the sound quality and the ONE deleted scene on this DVD version (the danish VHS was uncut !).
In all the other ways this is a good example for a comic book movie and was even more action-packed than the books at the time the movie was done ! Dolph Lundgren seems to have not the audience Arnie had at this time with action flicks but he's also like Arnie in Terminator 1 the good choice for the character of Frank Castle (The Punisher). Why ? The one-liners are also kind of dumb (and good at the same time) and Lundgren provides good Karate/KungFu-action scenes.
Fans of the books should have this one....whil waiting on the new movie expected to be written by comic-author Garth Ennis !
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Summary: "The guilty will be punished"
Review: In 1989 a low budget action film titled The Punisher crept it's way into australian cinema, later the film was mass released to the US theatres to poor reviews and harsh, but not undeserved, criticism. This film, despite character names and a somewhat similar situation and story, reflect the Marvel comics character in no way. Frank Castle was not a detective and his family wasn't blown up. This is basicly a Dolph Lundgren vehicle that crashed into a tree and exploded. They didn't even give Punisher his skull emblem. However, this films saving grace is the action and all the brutality you would expect in a Punisher film, the dialogue by Dolph Lundgren is awful why they choose him to play the clearly Italian Frank Castle is beyond me but they should have dubbed his voice or something because it was pretty bad but then again almost all of the films dialogue should have been dubbed over, this film isn't written half as good as the comic book incarnation. Never the less, as I touched on before this film has great action and somewhat of an entertaining story, if you think about the comics the entire way through it, but then again that could make some people angry... As for the DVD,
I'm surprised this was even transfered to DVD being as it was such a failure I figured the production company would be trying anything to make it dissapear. The DVD is bare bones, offering a trailer and some cast & crew stuff. All in all I bought this DVD cause I loved the action and the resulting stigma of the character portrayed therein. However if you're not a big comic book fan and you're not a big action fan... then what are you doing here?
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