This film could have been so much more. Thomsn Jane is a very good actor who is now showing what he can do in Stander, but I'm not sure whether to blame the usually reliable Hendsleigh or Jane for a lack of hatred and anger towards the gangsters. Being a huge comic fan, I've read many Punisher comics in the Marvel Nights series and the latest MAX. Although MK isn't as graphic, he is the same character who is extremely violent because he is driven to kill every criminal for his great loss. He is the guns of the Navarone in human form, he IS vengeance, and it just isn't captured. The apartment tenants, although used in the comics for humour, spend way too much time on camera, as most Punisher comics spend their time on Castle or on the people who will be suffering an inevitable bloody death. They were there to show what his life could be like if he didn't go down the route he does, and they end up leaving a mark that smells like 'wow, maybe he can still be human' when they should be brief to show he isn't coming back to normality. A decent enough film on its own, but a tragic conversion form the comic, just as Constantine was, but not quite that bad a conversion. Lets hope the Punisher 2 can take light from Sin City that the core of a comic book movie needs to come from the comic book.
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