Friday, June 11, 2004
THE PUNISHER
Featuring: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Rebecca Romijin-Stamos
Brief Synopsis: A highly decorated, military, undercover man has his entire, and I mean entire, family wiped out by very rich man whose son was killed in military’s man final mission. The former then sets about destroying the latter’s life whilst he tries to avoid being killed himself.
Comments: Whilst the Marvel comic has some history and background for the Punisher to develop, the essential plot of the film has been carried over by Hollywood many times over. And frankly, a lot better. The Malaysian censors had a good time with this one, snipping violent scenes short and at one stage cutting off part of his revenge speech when he started talking about avenging something that the law couldn’t. However it wouldn’t have helped the film much even if they had left the film intact. The action isn’t anything new, the bad guys are pretty well average and well it’s hard to think of many good things at all. Ok, the neighbours are easily the highlight of the film (along with the Russian assassin) with their ordinariness juxtaposed against the surrealism of The Punisher’s life. The lady neighbour is particularly fine although the many body shots of The Punisher helps to even this for the females members of the audience. But overall, it’s very difficult for me to recommend this film on any sort of basis.
Thing to learn from this film: Do not get piercings – if an evil henchman comes after you, that is just easy torture.
Rating: 3 /10
Featuring: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Rebecca Romijin-Stamos
Brief Synopsis: A highly decorated, military, undercover man has his entire, and I mean entire, family wiped out by very rich man whose son was killed in military’s man final mission. The former then sets about destroying the latter’s life whilst he tries to avoid being killed himself.
Comments: Whilst the Marvel comic has some history and background for the Punisher to develop, the essential plot of the film has been carried over by Hollywood many times over. And frankly, a lot better. The Malaysian censors had a good time with this one, snipping violent scenes short and at one stage cutting off part of his revenge speech when he started talking about avenging something that the law couldn’t. However it wouldn’t have helped the film much even if they had left the film intact. The action isn’t anything new, the bad guys are pretty well average and well it’s hard to think of many good things at all. Ok, the neighbours are easily the highlight of the film (along with the Russian assassin) with their ordinariness juxtaposed against the surrealism of The Punisher’s life. The lady neighbour is particularly fine although the many body shots of The Punisher helps to even this for the females members of the audience. But overall, it’s very difficult for me to recommend this film on any sort of basis.
Thing to learn from this film: Do not get piercings – if an evil henchman comes after you, that is just easy torture.
Rating: 3 /10
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