I can't decide whether I found him believable or not. John Travolta was an interesting choice of villain. It has this interesting feel of a little bit serious thriller, a little bit Super Hero action and a little bit comedy, yet it fails to knock into any of t he three categories, and instead sort of sits around somewhere in the middle, not really doing a whole lot, which is one of the films weakest points. It's not exactly anything we haven't seen before, in fact, much like the original Punisher it's more or less a carbon copy of Mad Max, right down to the suped-up armoured car. Having said that, the fan boys were very pissed off about the Casting of Jane in the leas role, when in actual fact he's the best thing in the film, so maybe the fan boys should just shut the fuck up. It doesn't go in to effecting my final score of the film, but you have to be careful when you know you're gonna be pissing the fan boys off. Speaking of comic books, this film is vastly different from the comics it is based on. It's not necessarily a good thing, as the film's meant to be about a comic book character. Much like it's 1989 predecessor, The Punisher is quite grounded in reality, the closest thing that they have to a larger than life villain is a muscular Russian who doesn't speak. Honestly I think Thomas Jane is a good addition to any film, a decision I made after watching him in The Punisher when I bought the DVD on a whim back in 2006. Every casting of The Punisher has been vastly different, Thomas Jane's portrayal of Frank Castle is quite good, he's smaller than the other two, but that's fine.

The punisher 2004