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 Punisher" details the abuse of the comic book antihero in his first and only screen outing. After the mafia murders his wife and children, New York cop Frank Castle disappears into the bowels of the city sewer system, planning his revenge. He spends the next couple of years stepping out of and back into the urban shadows as he picks off Gotham's big-shot Italian gangsters. Then Lady Tanaka, a fiery Japanese crime-lord, enters this grim scene and heads begin to roll. Castle initially gets a kick out of her bloody antics and the newly cannibalistic underworld. But when Tanaka and her cronies kidnap a rival's kids, Castle decides to intercede and show her exactly how killing is done in the Big Apple. (official distributor synopsis)
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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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