#How did you enjoy Punisher: One Last Kill?

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drowsy iglooBOT
quasi roost
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Punisher: One Last Kill Perfect

tawny lagoon
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Goated asf

jolly fjord
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Marvel has been cooking after 2024

keen stone
cyan karma
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Absolute cinema 10/10

shadow kettle
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I liked it but it felt kinda unnecessary

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Loved watching him go crazy tho

daring shore
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Punisher: One Last Kill

Year and creators: 2026, Jon Bernthal & Reinaldo Marcus Green
Rating: 7/10
Review: This 44 minute special covers what MCU Frank is up to. The 1st half is an emotionally complex reintroduction of MCU Frank Castle, while the 2nd half is a Raid-style action-fest. Bernthal loves the traumatized, PTSD-focused, Marine sides of Frank Castle, which renders him very emotional. In some scenes it works great, like the cemetery scene where Frank visits his family again. However this can lead to a lot of screaming/crying/tweaking in general across the adaptations. Comic fans like myself can get tired of this focus, & wonder if we'll ever see the cold, calculated, methodical, & driven Punisher from the comics. In some ways, Jon Bernthal only wants to represent certain aspects of the character & not others. A lot has been said about how this version of Punisher always retires, & that's valid. However I do think its ironic that this is the best version of that trope that we've seen so far. Punisher not ||killing himself|| & realizing he can still fight to protect innocents is a good direction for the character, & it finally seems that he's fully set in his career (despite multiple previous adaptions). The Positives: The acting, cinematography, shot selection, music, & action are all great. They absolutely delivered on the frenetic violence & brutality that should be inherent to any Punisher project. Lots of John Wick-style gunfighting, executions, & Bernthal is slick & well-trained. The action is frankly the best part of the special. I loved the focus on family, & how its contrasted w/ the Gnccis. The negatives: more Kastle stuff, insinuations that Frank wanted war over his family (???), no resolution for Ma or Barry, & barely wearing the skull at all. Ultimately its too short & feels like the first half of a longer movie. Overall this is a solid 1 shot, if you like The Raid, Max Payne, or the previous MCU Punisher content, you will like this.

woeful aspen
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I think it's telling what kind of person I am when, 90% of my problems with this would've been solved if he just wore the fucking skull for most of it.

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Overall, it was pretty fine tho

grave kindle
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i liked it somewhere between options A & B

sleek sonnet
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solid 7-8/10

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just a really tight and emotional special, some issues but not anything too major

sleek sonnet
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and he happily wore it in season 1

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depression does do that absolutely but it taps into the thoughts of depression more than it taps into what that might lead to

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and i like that it’s subtle but at the same time i think we needed more of a setup to show that he’s in a bad place again

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and he’s ashamed of all the people he killed and he has to kill all those gang members to save the civilians.

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and that leads to him wearing the skull

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i like that this all isn’t said— media literacy is so dead that even if the show blatantly said this, the audience wouldn’t understand because they wanna have the most heated, most emotional or most controversial opinion instead of just digesting something.

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i do not want him saying any of this, i just would’ve liked an extra scene or two at the beginning re establishing his awful place and why he’s essentially gone off the record other than he’s just killed a family