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)
When respected police officer Frank Castle (action superstar Dolph Lundgren, Rocky IV, The Expendables) suddenly loses his family to a vicious mob attack he withdraws from public life and becomes a man filled with hate. Driven into the shadows, fuelled by vengeance, he takes to the city's underground armed to the hilt with an arsenal of deadly weapons to track down and punish those who killed his family. With the Japanese Yakuza in the mix and a vicious battle against child slave traders, The Punisher sets out to clean up the streets the only way he knows how. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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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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