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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 1487731" data-attributes="member: 6791">Just saw "The Punisher"Some SPOILERS below--------------This movie is badly made. The cinematography is so stale and bland. However, the worst offender on this production would be the music composer. Oh my gawd....I can't relate how cheezy bad the music is. In fact, I'd rate "The Punisher" a whole two points higher if the music was actually more skillfully done and appropriate.The end climax was horrible. Why do writer/directers feel that, if its a comic book character, he's gotta write his calling card symbol, name, or whatever in flames on the ground? I'm so tired of this cliche. Ever since friggin Crow did it, everyone and their comic book mutha is doing it. Never mind if it doesn't fit the character's MO or not. Daredevil did it, ugh....now Punisher too...ugh!!Ok, that being said...do I have anything good to say about the movie? Actually yeah. If you're a Punisher fan, specifically of the new Ellis written Punisher, then there are enough little 'moments' to enjoy some parts in this film. I actually felt all the acting done was good on this film. Thomas Jane did a good job. I believed him as a Frank Castle. Will Patton was a pleasant surprise, I didn't know he was going to be in the film. Good character actor. There's actually quite an impressive list of actors and actresses here. Too bad the movie wasn't better.Again, it wasn't a total P.O.S. There are parts that are kinda cool. I'm a big Punisher fan from LONG time ago. So I consider myself a purist. Even so, I was fine with his new background. Ex-Special Forces Operator turned undercover Fed....that's cool.  I also like how Thomas Jane used his weaponry when acting like Castle. He did a good job of holding his guns properly and not all theatrically fake like in certain movies. Speaking of which, the gun fights come off more 'real' because they must've had a good gun expert to train everyone and so on. Being that the gun fights were approached with realism, I was kinda hoping for more of them to show up. I wanted more of the feel I got from when I watched "HEAT" for instance. But it was not to be. They were either too short....or didn't exist. I wished the gun battle at the end would've been longer or something.Anyways, that's about it really. It had some small isolated moments that made it felt like a good Punisher film....but there was also many bad things about the over-all movie that made it a bad Punisher film too. If you don't care at all about the Punisher......I can't see why you'd even salvage some of those moments at all, thus for you types....this movie is a complete waste of time. I think its better than the Dolph version, but its still not the Punisher movie we've all been waiting for.</blockquote>

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