Trailer The Punisher: One Last Kill | Official Trailer

[wicked cool]

As someone who grew up in North America, I still found it far-fetched. It was like a whole private army of punks with machine guns. That said, it was just one of the many things that felt off here.

Having only just recently watched S2 of The Punisher, this just felt really wrong somehow.

Didn’t you see Cambridge Massachusetts on the news the other day. I think it was the same gun a lot of the street thugs had.

 

[chuckdee]

As far as timing, this from the showrunner in an interview:

"I don’t know a ton about what goes on in “Brand New Day,” and I know very well where we left him at the end of “Punisher” Season 2. I think this tells the story of what happened next after “Punisher” and before and during the events of [“Born Again”] Season 2."

 

[pukunui]

Didn’t you see Cambridge Massachusetts on the news the other day. I think it was the same gun a lot of the street thugs had.

No, I didn’t see that.

As far as timing, this from the showrunner in an interview:

"I don’t know a ton about what goes on in “Brand New Day,” and I know very well where we left him at the end of “Punisher” Season 2. I think this tells the story of what happened next after “Punisher” and before and during the events of [“Born Again”] Season 2."

Hmm. That still feels really inconsistent with where Punisher S2 ended.

I guess the anarchy in the neighborhood streets can be explained away by the chaos Mayor Fisk causes, but if this is set during DDBA S2; then why didn’t the AVTF come after Frank? I still don’t buy that Frank would have been OK with all the street thugs before Ma called in her vendetta.

And where was the real Curtis? If Frank needed help, why didn’t he go see his buddy for real?

Honestly, I think I’d give this special presentation a C. Maybe not quite as bad as Secret Invasion, but nowhere near the quality of the actual Punisher show.

 

[Ryujin]

Finally watched it and I liked it.

What does a soldier do when the mission is over? Waits for the next mission.

When someone who only knows war has done his last mission, he has no purpose. No purpose? No reason to live.

Why did he let the neighbourhood go to hell? It wasn't the mission.

And then it was.

 

[chuckdee]

Yeah, that's what I got from it too. And the one last kill was himself. But it was the kill he couldn't take.

 

[Richards]

I was wondering who the "one last kill" referred to as well, and I think it was originally going to be him, there at his family's tombstones. (I was typing this up, and chuckdee beat me to the punch. Well done, chuckdee!)

Then he hallucinated his daughter, and that plan went away. (Incidentally, Frank's daughter Lisa was played by Jon Bernthal's real-life daughter, Addie. Cool casting!)

Johnathan

 

[Tonguez]

As someone who grew up in North America, I still found it far-fetched. It was like a whole private army of punks with machine guns. That said, it was just one of the many things that felt off here.

Having only just recently watched S2 of The Punisher, this just felt really wrong somehow.

You've been in a civilized country for too long

I assumed that One Last Kill occurs after Fisk is arrested (and Punisher had escaped from Red Hook). While it was a lot of gratuitous violence (at least from a non-American perspective) it did make sense for a post-Fisk backlash, and played directly to the mythologizing of those of us who grew up hearing the stories of American gang violence (ie too many movies of the 80s and 90s).

Anyway I liked the length of it too - it started with a depiction of Franks PTSD, descended to psychosis and his not caring about the world anymore (thus ignoring the violence around him) and then explored his transformation from vengeful killer to anti-hero who cares about others - thus setting up for his role in Spiderman

 

[wicked cool]

I think the wife is the last kill. She basically says you killed everyone but me. Strange that they didn’t wrap it up

 

[Morrus]

It was basically a mini 45-minute John Wick film.

 

[Clint_L]

Watched it last night. It was kinda pointless. It didn't move the character forward in any significant way. It was like it was intentionally trying to be a more brutal (arguably) but much less well choreographed John Wick, with an even thinner plot: Punisher has unusually bad day, even by Punisher standards, and Punisher subsequently kills a bunch of nameless criminals. Okay. What's one thing we know about Punisher now that we didn't know before watching this?

And yeah, it's set in a fantasy New York where emergency services basically don't exist until the plot requires them, and then it's back to normal. It also really begged credulity that the shopkeeper was trying to keep business going as usual throughout the day.

The character and the actor both deserve better.