Over the course of a 19 year period, we got three different
Punisher movies, none of them direct continuations of each other. Instead, we got a trio of attempts to launch a series of movies based on this Marvel Comics character, none of which left all that much of an impact, especially compared to how well-received Jon Bernthal's take on the character on the
Daredevil TV show was. The second of these three
Punisher movies is the 2004 film by
Johnathan Hensleigh, simply called
The Punisher, which is one of only two movies (along with that 2005
Man-Thing film that ended up becoming a TV movie) to emerge from an extensive deal Marvel made with now-defunct movie studio Artisan Entertainment to turn various Marvel characters into various pop culture properties.
