Just an average action movie. Reminds u of Mad Max. Too bad some of the parents don't take Justice in their own hands with HS shootings. Thomas Jane played a great role. He looked the part.

a great action film. for the high respect for the original source. for humor and for the use of cultural references. and, sure, for Thomas Jane who does a real good job. a film about values, justice and revenge. few memorable story - the huge Russian and the ignorant friends, the family moments and , sure, John Travolta in a role who reminds many others from his filmography but remains interesting. a film who respects its basic idea and this is the motif to give more than kicks and enormous confrontations, blood and explosions. but a coherent story, not always credible but for fans of cartoons and for the admirers of true fights could be enough. and, best detail, not only for this categories of public because the story real works . short, a good film. or just pure entertainment.

I watch a film like this in the same way I watch films with Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal in them; it's to see the bad guys get what's coming to them. Truthfully, I had no idea this movie even existed, I saw the Dolph Lundgren film a long time ago and can't even recall it now. Thomas Jane makes for a worthwhile anti-hero, but if there's a critique to be offered for his take on the Marvel Punisher, it's that he's too, what's the word - sanitary?, clean cut? All-American? - I don't know if I can come up with the right word but hopefully you get my drift.This is the second time within about a week I happened to catch a picture with Kevin Nash in it, he was 'The Russian' in this one and had a role as a prison guard/football player in the Adam Sandler remake of "The Longest Yard". So that intrigued me enough to look up his other film credits and I was surprised to see he's got over a hundred. Upon closer examination though, the majority have to do with his day job as a pro wrestler, which come to think of it, IMDb seems to recognize as another type of acting role. That should sober up some minority of folks who still think wrestling is on the up and up.Well at least this wasn't all just straightforward mindless violence and mayhem. I thought the way Frank Castle/Punisher set up Howard Saint (John Travolta) was pretty innovative; instead of coming at him head on Castle created a pretty nasty web of deceit around the man's gangster connections. The business with Livia Saint (Laura Harring) and consiglieri Quentin Glass (Will Patton) left both of them clueless as to Howard's sudden irrationality. What gets the job done I guess.As for Howard Saint himself, that was a nasty way to go wasn't it? I think I like Travolta in his villain roles more so than the Vinny Barbarino type characters. Compared to his Tony Manero in "Saturday Night Fever", you just had to know that going up against The Punisher would end up a disco inferno.

Thomas Jane, I think, was a great choice to play 'the punisher'. However, due to various acting choices and writing choices for the movie it lacks real intent of the movie. The editing team also takes blame for how poorly this movie was received. It tried, very hard, to be a good comic book movie. But, in the end, it just patronized the fan base. Mostly, due to the company who financed this film not realizing the 'ideal' or 'good' of a Punisher film compared to the comic books. Secondly, casting people like John Tavolta was a horrible choice. He wasn't even close to being believable as the 'bad guy'. In the end, the movie failed to become a good movie because the company you made this movie did not realize that the fan base wasn't looking for a generic revenge movie but a real life character who can kick ass as an emotional and in depth character.