"The Punisher" is one of three adaptations of the comic book character and personally one of my favourite graphic novel adaptaions. Looseley base upon the 'Welcome Back Frank' and 'The Punisher: Year One' stories, the movie follows the origin story of The Punisher. FIB agent Frank Castle, played by Thomas Jane, is on his last undercover case before retirement. When a mob boss' son is acidentally killed, the mob boss, Howard Saint played by John Travolta, has Frank's entire extended family killed. After miraculously surviving Frank begins a campain to gain revenge upon Howard Saint.
The reason I like this is so much is that it draws so much from the source material, a lot of the scenes are straight from the comic books and graphic novels ( as shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJOaS2w9TPQ and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqF2ustWSws ) This is exactly what I expect from an adaptation of a graphic novel and comic book adaptation, a great amalgam of various different scenes, storylines and characters from the comic books and grapic novel.
I think this is a truely great adaptation and I highly recommend it for the top ten graphic novel adaptations.
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