Punisher full of irony and action
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Many people may ask who the heck is “The Punisher”. Well to be honest, I hadn’t heard of him either until I went to the theater and saw the film. The Punisher (Thomas Jane) is a comic hero, or so he’s been labeled but he doesn’t seem like your average comic book hero.
The Punisher, Frank Castle, loses everything that means anything to him. He turns to revenge and will use any method to get back at the man responsible for it all.
Mr. Saint, (John Travolta) ironically the bad guy, loses a son and goes after the man that set up the deal that got him killed. With money and enough patience Mr. Saint finds out that Castle was the one behind everything and wants revenge. Sending his thugs Saint orders a hit on Castle’s entire family.
Barely surviving the attack on his family Castle manages some how to pull through and move into the city, letting everyone believe he’s dead. Choosing his moment Castle starts causing trouble of Saint.
While the sneaky attacks on Saints money shipments take place, Castle finds himself in a rundown old apartment building, which gets demolished during the movie. The other three occupants of the build turn out to be the ones that bring Castle back from the edge and shows him there is still hope in the world. Castle will go to any length to protect them once he realizes that they would and will do the same for him.
Once business is taken care of with the Saints, a little trickery on Castles part, he decides to head out of town. The movie was hilarious, the irony and humor was the best. There was action and drama, a little romance for the saps out there. Some very nice cars, let’s just say that they don’t make it through the entire movie in one piece. Overall the movie was grade A material and I would recommend it to any hero fanatic out there.
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| Godsend lame as a thriller
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Although the cloning dilemma has cooled down recently, Lion’s Gate Films has brought the controversy back in its science fiction thriller Godsend. The film is jam packed with an all-star cast, including Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
The movie starts out by showing the love Paul and Jessie Duncan (Kinnear and Romijn-Stamos) show for their son Adam. Adam was the love of their life, being the first and last born, since Jessie could no longer conceive a child. Then, disaster strikes and Adam is killed in a car accident. A “fertility specialist” named Robert Wells (De Niro) hears about the situation and tells the them that they could clone the child by taking a single cell from his dead body. They decide to go on with the procedure and eventually have the baby boy. At first everything goes as planned, but when he reaches the age at which he “previously died,” homicidal tendencies arise.
With such a great cast, it is hard to picture such a disappointing film, but that is exactly the case here. The film started off good with the whole cloning thing but switched gears to a horrible thriller flick. The problem with this is that the only thing remotely scary is the child himself! Don’ get me wrong, the acting was good, but the story line was just lame.
If you want to see a good thriller flick, don’t waste your time with Godsend.
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