Advantages: It's aware of its own silliness. Disadvantages: Wooden acting, dire scripting and very little story.
Ruthless vigilante Frank Castle, also known as The Punisher, sets his sights on an out-of-control mob boss called Billy Russoti. When “Beautiful Bill” is left disfigured by Castle, he is hell-bent on revenge in his new guise; Jigsaw. But in his attempts to bring a mob gang to justice, Castle inadvertently kills an innocent man. Wracked with guilt, he tries to help the dead man’s family, but brings them to the attention of Russoti and his thugs. Castle ... ...to have any chance of survival. But with the “Punisher Task Force” on his tail and the FBI unable to help him, he has to go it alone…
I laughed my way right through the Thomas Jane “Punisher” movie a few years ago, not because it was intentionally funny but because it was a ridiculous action movie that took itself way too seriously. So when my other half dragged me to this latest stab at a franchise I was expecting more of the same. So I was pleasantly ...
afy9mab 22.06.2009
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