The Punisher (2004)

Directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. With Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Samantha Mathis, Laura Harring. 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.

The Punisher is a 2004 American vigilante action film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Thomas Jane as the antihero Frank Castle/The Punisher and John Travolta as Howard Saint, a money launderer who orders the death of Castle's entire family.

Frank Castle is a man who has seen too much death in his life, first as a Delta Force Op and later as an FBI special agent. He has managed to beat considerable odds, and is finally moving out of the field and into a normal life with him wife, Maria, and young son, Will. However, on his final assignment, the operation spins out of control and a young man, Bobby Saint, is inadvertently killed. This places the FBI on the wrong side of Tampa businessman Howard Saint, his wife Livia, and their underworld ties. Inflamed by the death of their son, the Saints are on a mission of blood vengeance. Frank's worst nightmare comes true when Howard Saint and his lieutenants unleash hell at the Castle family reunion. But Castle, to his everlasting torment, survives. Now, Frank Castle--the Punisher--views the world as one darkened by war, crime, cruelty, and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees, only his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains.

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After his wife and family are killed, Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) takes it upon himself to distribute punishment to those responsible for the vendetta. Direct...

Thomas Jane as Frank Castle, aka The Punisher

A description of tropes appearing in Punisher (2004). The second film adaptation of The Punisher, released in 2004. FBI agent Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) …

Thomas Jane (Actor), John Travolta (Actor), Jonathan Hensleigh (Director, Writer)

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"The Punisher" is a long, dark slog through grim revenge. Unlike most movies based on comic book heroes, it doesn't contain the glimmer of a smile, and its hero is a depressed alcoholic -- well he might be, since his entire family, including wife, child, father and even distant cousins -- has been massacred before his eyes. As he seeks vengeance, he makes the Charles Bronson character in the movie "Death Wish" look relatively cheerful and well-adjusted.

Overly cartoonish and totally pointless, The Punisher takes the dark comic book premise as a jump-off point and slowly destroys it.

The Punisher was created in 1974 by Comic Book writer Gerry Conway. A veteran of the Military whose family was murdered by the mob. And Frank Castle became a vigilantie who would use violent methods to end crime.

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