The Punisher

United States, Germany

2004

124 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 2.1/5 Stars.
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SCR Jonathan Hensleigh, Michael France

CAST Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Laura Harring, James Carpinello, Rebecca Romijn, Ben Foster, John Pinette, Eddie Jemison, Samantha Mathis, Marcus Johns, Roy Scheider, Kevin Nash, A. Russell Andrews, Omar Avila, Mark Collie, Russell Durham Comegys, Antoni Corone, Rick Elmhurst, Michael Reardon, William Haze, Marco St. John, Bonnie Johnson, Veryl Jones, Carleth Keys, Alan Lilly, Marc Macaulay, Nick Loren, Tom Nowicki

Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he’s a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong. —Wikipedia

Director

Jonathan Hensleigh

One of the most prolific screenwriters in the action/adventure genre, Jonathan started his career writing episodes of “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” (1992) for George Lucas and ABC. He wrote Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), re-conceived from his original spec script “Simon Says”. He followed that with Jumanji (1995). His script for the The Saint (1997) was completely re-written by others. After this frustration, he enjoyed a long working friendship with producer Jerry Bruckheimer with whom he collaborated on many projects since 1996. He re-wrote the whole script for The Rock (1996) without credit, which he tried desperately to achieve via WGA arbitration.

He did uncredited re-writes on Con Air (1997) and the remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and received executive producer credits on both. Armageddon (1998/I), from Jonathan’s original idea, was the second time Jonathan had the highest grossing film, worldwide, at the box office. The other was Die Hard: With a Vengeance… read more