Directed by:
Mark GoldblattScreenplay:
Boaz YakinCinematography:
Ian BakerComposer:
Dennis DreithCast:
Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Miyori, Bryan Marshall, Nancy Everhard, Barry Otto, Lani John Tupu, Richard Carter, Todd Boyce, May Lloyd (more)Plots(1)
The avenging angel of Marvel® Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner (Louis Gossett Jr.) believes Castle survived the blast to become The Punisher... a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies. Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers, The Punisher leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brital crime and savage retribution. A world where only one this is certain… the guilty will be punished. (Anchor Bay Films)
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Dolph, pale from a lack of vitamin D, roams the sewers, but not because he’s ashamed—he’s out for revenge. While gun enthusiasts will find plenty of entries for the Internet Movie Firearms Database, Jeroen Krabbé comes across as a lackluster villainous crab, and Detective Gossett Jr. misses every opportunity to deliver witty one-liners. Lundgren, for some reason, refuses to wear the Punisher’s iconic shirt (perhaps so the audience can better focus on the nipple peeking through the hole at the end). The editor of legends like Lethal Weapon and T2 doesn’t quite prove himself as an action director, and without a sense of humor, I’ll continue to prefer the executioner with Thomas Jane...
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