The Punished for almost 10 years..
I heard a lot of rumors when this movie came out about how bad it was. So i avoided it like the plague. I thought of John Travolta like how he was in Battlefield Earth and just passed it by. I ended up watching it many years later because i heard Thomas Jane was actually the lead (never looked it up). I can see why people might have been discouraged when it came out, the scenes in a lot of parts looked like they were shot with a soap opera daytime camera. The acting by the girl in the apartment especially when she was crying (played by Rebecca Romijn) was beyond horribly embarrassing to say the least in her acting ability. I loved the fact that John Pinette received a role in the film, but i have no idea why he was even in the film as he didn't really do anything? The main bad guys were OK, the Russian fight scene was pretty damn good though. I liked that the Punisher was shown as a regular guy with abilities that only suited his training just using them to the extreme. Thomas Jane did a great job with the role and surprisingly John Travolta did as well, he wasn't the biggest bad guy on the block but he was a regular boss type with no special abilities other than having a lot of henchmen. Some characters should have never been on screen, some were alright. All in all i did enjoy this movie for what it was, its not spider man or x men but seems more of a regular action thriller than anything, so i left it as that.
- Phantasy_star_4
- 24 mar 2014