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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 5555
Released: September 7, 2004 |
| Our Price: $3.89 |
| Used Price: $0.85 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Each DVD at launch will include a 28 page mini-comic inside the amray case.
The comic is the first ever prequel comic to a movie. It is an alternate origin story to the Punisher and ends with the opening dock scene of the movie. It is written by Garth Ennis, premiere writer of Punisher comics, and the cover is illustrated by Tim Bradstreet. The comic is being written exclusively for this promotion, and will not be anywhere else in the marketplace for 6 months. The comic is full color and has a retail value of $2.25.
10,000 comics out of the total run will have a unique cover and be positioned as a limited edition. They will be randomly inserted into the DVDs and randomly distributed to retail.
Description of The Punisher:
The impressively muscular chest of Tom Jane is the focal point of The Punisher, a movie based on a Marvel Comics superhero. Frank Castle (Jane, Deep Blue Sea) retires from the FBI, which means--as any moviegoer expects--that his family is toast. Howard Saint (John Travolta, Face/Off), a shady Florida businessman whose son was killed in Castle's last mission, orders a hit not only on Castle's wife and child, but also on his parents and a whole bunch of aunts, uncles, cousins, and so forth. The killers shoot Castle himself in the chest, but he inexplicably survives and--as any moviegoer expects--sets out to even the score. Implausibly, given his sometimes curious and roundabout methods, he succeeds. Also featuring Will Patton (Armageddon) as an oily thug, Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) as Saint's fleshpot wife, and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men) as a waitress with bad taste in men. --Bret Fetzer
The Punisher Reviews:
A worthy edition 
2008-07-03 - I thought that this movie was pretty good already, but the addition of the extended scenes and the whole missing storyline was well worth the buy. The animated beginning should have never been cut from the theatrical version. This movie and the director's cut of the Abyss are two that give you the whole story. 5 stars.
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2008-07-02 - The Punisher [Blu-ray]very good action packed movie and sound great on surround sound. better than most sound in theaters.
I liked it
2008-06-29 - The Punisher has been in the Marvel comics world since 1974.
He's probably changed a bit during that time. I hadn't followed him much, partly because I stopped reading comics in 1983.
I liked the movie. The character and story were believable. And John Travolta played an excellent villain.
Overly harsh punishment 
2008-05-31 - A sleazy showcase of sadism, slapstick and sentimentality, this version of The Punisher is only marginally better than forgettable Dolph Lundgren version. Good performances from Rebecca Romijin, Ben Foster and John Travolta, and a cameo by Roy Scheider, don't quite make up for the way the film turns slaughter into a joke by veering drunkenly from the subfusc to the ridiculous.
Reviews I've read suggest that the directors' cut manages to explain away most of the plot holes, but I feel no urge at all to see it: I'm not sure what comics readers did to deserve this, but whatever it was, we've been punished enough already.
Extended cut of this film is better 
2008-05-27 - The punisher is one my all time favourite comic book heros and this film is favourite comic book movie so far. The extended cut of this film contains 17 mins of extra footage that was cut from this film, the extra footage put back in this film gives it a more story driven film inccluding in scene of who gave Frank Castle up to Howard Saint. If you already have this film, but don't have the extended cut it's worth checking out.
