Twenty years later, Thomas Jane’s outing as The Punisher is a pleasant mess with some edge, an awkward growth period.
The Punisher is one of those comic book movies that came out in what some call a dark period for the genre, after Blade and X-Men , but before we were “rescued” by Batman Begins and the start of the MCU with Iron Man . These types of films were still going through a growth period, as studios attempted to work with new budgets and expanding technologies while looking for what would sell, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some gems in there, or at least a movie or two that was worth watching.
There are many other minor characters and recognizable actors here, I’ve always been partial to Will Patton as Quentin Glass, Kevin Nash as The Russian, and although brief, it never hurts to see Roy Scheider. Frank’s family doesn’t stick around long, but they are there along with the various members of the criminal organization, and Castle makes a few new friends.
Some people find the fire hydrant to be worse, but how Frank deals with the Saints before his final assault is one of my favorite parts of the writing. Castle could have just killed them all off one by one, slowly, risked them going to ground, but he also wanted to make the people who killed his family suffer.
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