After the murder of his family, Marine veteran Frank Castle became a vigilante known as "The Punisher" with only one goal in mind, to avenge them. After exacting revenge on those responsible for the death of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs far deeper than New York's criminal underworld. Now known throughout the city as The Punisher, he must discover the truth about injustices that affect more than his family alone. Marvel joins once again with Netflix to add to the connected universe with its latest installment. While this show has been light on action, it does have some interesting character development. Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) is presumed dead after the events of the second season of Daredevil that I don't totally remember. I'm hoping to rewatch along with this season one day in the future because I found the show mostly slow and hard to pay attention to this first time around. The Punisher is hiding out as a construction worker channeling his rage into hammering a wall. One thing about this shows that seems to be a consensus is that they should be a lot shorter as it takes a while for anything to happen and the show suffers from a dull middle part where Frank is injured for an entire episode. The Defenders felt nicely paced and not too dull at eight episodes even if it has some of its own flaws. <br/><br/>Trouble finds Frank as some of his construction coworkers rob a mafia poker game. He now has people to take his anger out on and does not show mercy. A secondary plot develops with Dinah Madani (Amber Rose Rivah), Homeland Security agent, who investigates missing weapons. Frank is forced to re-enter the world when he gets a call from Micro (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), aka David Lieberman who is in possession of an incriminating video of Frank and his fellow soldiers. He hunts down the computer hacker and tortures him into giving up information as he recalls his own memories of the brutal memories he performed while serving with Billy Russo (Ben Barnes) and clashed with Rawlins (Paul Schulze). Russo now works for a private security firm secretly involved with Rawlins who is rising up in politics.<br/><br/>Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com I was really looking forward to what the MCU will do with the Punisher, following a lack lustre show that was Defenders. What I must say is when a show or a film has the perfect lead it makes a huge difference eg. Charlie Cox as Daredevil. Jon Bernthal not just plays The Punisher he makes us believe that he is the anti hero himself. But the one for me who stole the show is Ben Barnes. He is Billy Russo and was supurb, cool, cold hearted, manipulative and sexy. One of the best villains of the MCU with Kilgrave and Wilson Fisk. The story was okay but it was so hard to watch the first few episodes without having to be bored. But it is worth watching, the title theme suggests a vibe of danger or even get in my way and I'll f**ck you up with my weapons. The action is great but it is just mainly shooting or stabbing.
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