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» Plot - Spoiler warning: Plot and ending details followThanks to wikipedia.org for the informationFormer Delta Force soldier and Special Undercover Agent Frank Castle had it all: a loving family, a great life, and an upcoming desk job. On his final assignment, Castle plays his undercover role perfectly, but the operation spins out of control and a young man, Bobby Saint, is inadvertently killed. Inflamed by the death of their son, the Saints are willing to risk their newfound legitimacy on a wholesale mission of vengeance. Castle's worst nightmare is about to come true, as Howard Saint's lieutenants unleash hell at the Castle family reunion. But Castle, to his everlasting torment, survives. Until this moment, he has spent his entire life adhering strictly to the law. However, experience has taught him that the law cannot adequately penalize the people who murdered his entire family. Drawing upon all he has learned in 20 years, Castle sets in motion a diabolical plan to punish all of those responsible. Reaction On its release on April 16, 2004, it was mostly panned by critics. Some stated that it was brutal, dull, and full of clichés. However, many have defended the movie stating that compared to most comic book based movies, it is a well done throwback to the old school action movies of the 60s and 70s. Its video and DVD sales were also enough to warrant a sequel, which will be due out in 2007. Pre-Production During pre-production, director Jonathan Hensleigh and cinematography Conrad W. Hall looked at dozens of action movies, crime sagas and westerns made between 1960 and 1978, including the Dirty Harry series, The Getaway, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Godfather, and Bonnie and Clyde. Those movies helped establish the cinematic vocabulary Hensleigh and Hall developed for The Punisher. "We wanted to situate The Punisher as a larger-than-life character," explains Hall. "Without copying these films, they gave us a common ground from which to communicate." Hensleigh and the film's producers put together a crew of key collaborators who thoroughly understood that aesthetic, beginning with director of photography Conrad W. Hall. The film marks the second feature credit for Hall, who had previously shot Panic Room for David Fincher. "Jonathan wanted to do a film in a more classic visual style, with an unobtrusive camera and dramatic lighting that would enhance the tension of a scene. That was exciting to me, because it's easy to fall into the trap of trying to outdo whatever the fashion of the moment is," comments Hall. Hall acquired an appreciation of the storyteller's art from his father, the late, much-admired cinematographer Conrad L. Hall. "My father was a great filmmaker, and he was really about pointing the camera at the story." In style, tone and technique, The Punisher evokes the taut, vigorous action storytelling that thrived in the 60s and 70s, says Jonathan Hensleigh, "I greatly admire the tradition of action filmmaking laid down by Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Sam Peckinpah and, in particular, Don Siegel. I love the spareness of those films. I love the classic camerawork, and the fact that it is based solely on storytelling." Hensleigh and Hall chose to keep the cinematography of The Punisher as naturalistic as possible, which suited both the muscularity of the story and the realistic style of the comic. They largely avoided pre-determined color palettes; occasionally Hall introduced blue tones to underscore emotional themes. "Jonathan really felt that we should deal with color as the locations and nature dictated," Hall explains. "Ultimately, we fell upon a style that we felt was original for The Punisher. The idea behind this picture was that it ought to be bleak -this is a dark story - but beautiful." The film's flinty realism is enhanced by a strong undercurrent of dark humor. Frank Castle may be a man of few words, but he does have a way with a wry quip. "The story at its heart is a very emotional tale of incredible loss," Jane reflects. "The challenge was to keep the tone relatively close to the bone, and yet find the humor in the situations. It was important that we mixed a sense of fun in with the horror. The movie is intended to entertain people. We all need to be able to laugh. We need that emotional release." From the outset, Hensleigh was determined that the film's action sequences would be the province of actors and stunt people. Every chase, fight and shootout had to exist within the boundaries of human possibility. "I like practical gags, gags that can be pulled off by stunt people without CGI enhancement," he says. "I spent a great deal of time going back over my old notes about all the things I've wanted to do. I did not want to write some massive stunt that would run contrary to the laws of physics." Before filming began, Hensleigh was not given the budget he wanted or needed. Hensleigh knew that most action pictures get a budget of around 64 million. He was only given a 33 million dollar budget for the movie. He was also only given 50 days to shoot the movie, which is half the number of days it takes to shoot most action pictures. Most of Hensleigh's original script had to be edited and re-written due to budget costs. According to the DVD commentary, a subplot that involved Frank discovering a friend had sold him out to the Saint family to absolve a gambling debt was lost as a result of these budget cuts and rewrites. Many have agreed that Thomas Jane did well as Frank Castle (also known as The Punisher). Despite mixed reviews from fans of the comic, the movie did very well on DVD and video, doing well enough to warrant The Punisher 2, a sequel due to release in 2007. An extended cut DVD has been announced for a November 21, 2006 release with 17 minutes of additional footage. However, it hasn't been confirmed if it will also be rated R or if it will be an unrated release.
» DVD InformationFan Review Amazon.co.uk Review
The impressively muscular chest of Tom Jane is the focal point of The Punisher, a movie based on a Marvel Comics superhero. Frank Castle (Jane, Deep Blue Sea) retires from the FBI, which means--as any moviegoer expects--that his family is toast. Howard Saint (John Travolta, Face/Off), a shady Florida businessman whose son was killed in Castle's last mission, orders a hit not only on Castle's wife and child, but also on his parents and a whole bunch of aunts, uncles, cousins, and so forth. The killers shoot Castle himself in the chest, but he inexplicably survives and--as any moviegoer expects--sets out to even the score. Implausibly, given his sometimes curious and roundabout methods, he succeeds. Also featuring Will Patton (Armageddon) as an oily thug, Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) as Saint's fleshpot wife, and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men) as a waitress with bad taste in men. --Bret FetzerSynopsis When his wife and children are killed after witnessing a mafia hit, Frank Castle dedicates his life to the eradication of crime in America; he becomes the Punisher. DVD Description The Punisher follows an FBI undercover agent, Frank Castle (Thomas Jane); he's a former Special Forces member who is finally moving into a safe desk job, to the delight of his wife and son. But when his family is executed after witnessing a mafia hit, Castle dons a black battle suit, arms himself with a ton of guns, and seeks swift revenge.
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The Punisher is a 2004 movie, based on the Marvel Comics character, starring Thomas Jane as Frank Castle (The Punisher) and John Travolta as the gangster who orders the death of Castle's family.