Director Jonathan Hensleigh
Starring Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Samantha Mathis
Rated MA
Score 3.5/6

An undercover FBI agent becomes a vigilante assassin and sets out to unleash his wrath upon the corrupt businessman who slaughtered his entire family at a reunion.

For those of you who might be interested there has been three different feature length live action versions of The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren (1989), Thomas Jane (2004) and Ray Stevenson (2008) cast as Frank Castle Aka The Punisher. Of the three men cast as The Punisher Thomas Jane is the only man to revisit the role, he was cast in a 2012 fan made film The Punisher: Dirty Laundry.
I enjoyed the 2004 movie starring Thomas Jane ad despite the overall dark tone of the movie there was some genuinely funny moments, most notable of which being Castle’s interrogation of Mickey Duka.
I suppose the biggest downfall of the movie was the character Howard Saint who was portrayed by John Travolta. Saint’s character certainly deserved the tsunami of punishment that was rained down upon him, but the character was supposed to be very possessive of his wife and that requires a certain level of slime that just did not come across on screen especially if the movie is anything to go by if any man looked at her wrong he would end up in the bay. That being said I thought that Saint’s ultimate demise had a certain Romanesque quality to it.