Plot:
In the sewers, the credits are rolling. We get a musical montage of the Punisher using heavy machine gun target practicing on cardboard cutouts of criminals intercut
with scenes of crime.
A news report is discussing how Mobster Moretti has been acquitted in the case of the death of Frank Castle and his family 5 years ago. The reporter also mentions 125
criminals have been killed in the past few years. They are assumed to be the work of a mysterious vigilante. Moretti isn’t afraid of the Punisher. But, he should be afraid. A
motorcycle follows Moretti home.
Moretti’s goons check the mansion. Frank gets inside. And the mobster killing does begin. These are fairly quiet kills. Knives, choking, etc… Moretti finds the
bodies. The media are outside of gates to the estate. They hear gunfire and race to the story. The mansion has some explosions blow out the windows. Moretti walks
out the front door and collapses with a skull handled knife in his back. That knife will be as close as we get to the skull symbol for the Punisher.
A man in black not Johnny Cash is inside the mansion when it explodes. In the sewers, Frank has some issues with being bare-assed naked in the sewers. He questions
God about justice and punishment. We get a flashback to when his family died.
Lt. Jake Berkowitz is investigating the scene. He believes that Frank Castle is alive. The higher-ups in the police department and the mayor don’t want people to think
a dead cop is waging a one-man war against the Mafia. Sam, the detective chick wants to be Jake’s partner. He doesn’t want to waste his time with her. Frank
Castle was his partner. Sam mentions she thinks Castle is the Punisher that seems to get Jake’s attention.
Gianni Franco is returning from an extended stay in Europe. Jake is waiting to greet Gianni. He thinks that the Punisher will try to whack Gianni. Later on, Gianni is
meeting with some of the other mobsters. Franco wants to unite all the families. The whole cooperation not competition spiel. Gianni has a big drug shipment coming
in if the other families cooperate, he’ll share the profits.
At a bar, the drunken actor, Shake gets thrown out. He spots a remote control car with a magic bottle that takes away the pain, also known as booze. It’s what‘s for
dinner. Punisher is driving the car, Shake is late for a meeting. I’m no sure how a drunken actor can learn the location of multimillion dollar drug buys. Frank heads off to
the buy.
At the pier, the mobsters are waiting. Frank manages to kill each guard right after they report. The boat with the drugs is stopped and boarded by wet-suit wearing
ninjas that kill the crew. The boat docks in the pier. Frank is readying his rifle to snipe Gianni. The mobsters are attacked by the ninjas and from the boat.
Some of the ninjas try to shoot Dolph. He gets in the firefight. Shootout continues. Frank is unstoppable like a Universal soldier. He is wounded by a knife and falls in the
water. The ninjas decide the best way to help him is shoot him full of holes so he can rise.
When the cops get on the scene, the van with the drugs is pulled from the harbor. Jake finds one of the infamous punisher knives.
Frank hobbles through the sewers injured. He is heating a knife to cauterize the wound. Somehow, he feels the pain and screams from the knife.
The Mob learns that the Yakuza is involved and learn about its head: Lady Tanaka. She wants to take over the Mob’s business. She’ll let Gianni handle the daily running
of operations and provide financial services. All of this is will be done with the Yakuza getting 75% of the profits. Tanaka isn’t asking but demanding they agree or
suffer the consequences. Frank has the room bugged and overhears everything. Tanaka leaves the meeting. The Mob agrees to fight.
At the police station, Sam is using a computer to search for Frank’s hideout. Jake has been searching for years and not gotten anywhere.
Kids are grabbed from schools, homes, etc… Shake wanders the sewer to update Frank on what is happening. The gang war will wipe out the Mafia. Shake tells him how
the children of the Mob families have been taken and will be sold into the slave trade. Frank isn’t concerned about it. Shake is trying to convince him to do something.
At another Mob meeting, Gianni is telling the others how tough Tanaka is. The Yakuza has the money and go to their headquarters the top floor of a
skyscraper. Apparently, they have a ninja training camp there, too. Tanaka has the money for the kids. All of the kids are understandably upset. Tommy, Gianni’s
son, has some attitude and tries breaking a chair over the back of a ninja.
Some chick goes to a casino/club. Frank is preparing to break into the place. He rappels through a skylight. People are running. Frank will strike the Yakuza everyday
until the children are returned. He shoots up the place. Remember the scene in UHF where Weird Al has the Rambo parody. This scene is like that without
as much sweat or screaming.
Once again, the cops are on the scene.2 Japanese guys aren’t talking. Jake and Sam find that they have the big honkin’ full back Yakuza tattoo. Cops learn the Mob
kids have been taken. The prime suspect is the Punisher which Jake doesn’t believe.
Back in the sewers, Shake gives the location of the kids to Dolph. He’s going after them. The location is an abandoned amusement park. Kids aren’t there but a lot
of ninjas are.
Frank searches through the funhouse. Shootout occurs. He’s got to fight the ninjas hand to hand. He tries to escape. Ninjas surround him. The fight is on. But, the
ninjas are too much for Frank who passes out from being waxed across the floor.
Frank awakens tied up. Tanaka is angry at him who’s on a motorized rack. She starts torturing him to get some answers. But, torture isn’t very effective on him. She
tries another tactic. Shake is tied onto another motorized rack. She leaves. The remaining Yakuza starts the rack on Shake. Frank working on his shackles and gets
loose. Frank frees Shake. Frank gets the location of the kids.
Jake and Sam are searching the sewers. Surprisingly, they don’t run into any ninja turtles or disfigured mutants. We learn why Jake is still searching for Frank. Jake fell
into the bottle and Frank helped him out and become a cop again.
The Mob guys except Gianni are at the restaurant to meet Tanaka. She comes in to meet them. A shootout ensues. All the mobsters are killed.
A bus is stolen by Dolph. He heads to where the kids are being kept. Killing the guards, he leads the kids to the bus. Frank has to go back for Tommy and a girl. Frank finds
Tommy and the girl easily. He gets into a fight heading back to the bus. The Yakuza grabs Tommy. The bus is being chased. Have you ever wanted to see aggressive bus driving
action? If you ever wanted to see small children prying the fingers of a Japanese man clenching onto a bus window from the outside of the bus, this is your chance. Frank sees the
police blockade in front of him; he manages to stop the bus. Frank lets the kids out. The cops arrest him.
Jake is escorted to Frank’s jail cell. Jake wants to know what happened. How could Frank go on a 5 year Mobster killing spree? We get a philosophical debate over punishing
the guilty. Jake wants to help Dolph, but he refuses the help.
In the jail cell, Frank has a nightmare. Gianni is watching a news report about Frank Castle. He still doesn’t have his son back.
Frank is in the paddy wagon with Sam. She’s not happy about how Jake is so tore up over Frank. Suddenly, a jailbreak occurs.
Frank awakens later. Gianni apologizes for the death of Frank’s family. Gianni needs Frank to help him save Tommy. He has some leverage from holding Jake as a
hostage. They either get the boy or Jake dies. Frank agrees.
Frank and Gianni are going to rescue the boy. Shake will handle the diversions.
Jake is tied and being guarded. He manages to escape.
Back at the Yakuza headquarters, Frank and Gianni get to the elevator and access to the top floor. They mow down a school of ninjas. Frank and Gianni manage to save
each other several times.
They split up. Frank gets into a couple of fights with some ninjas.
The cops are at the scene. At least, this time they are there before the fight is over. Shake bumps into Jake. Jake heads in the building. The elevator has to be
repaired.
Tanaka has Tommy. Dolph is fighting the Ninja Chick, daughter of Tanaka. She’s fairly tough. Frank eventually manages to break her neck.
Gianni is still searching for Tommy. He finds Tanaka. She forces Gianni to put his gun in his mouth and blow his brains out or she kills Tommy. Tanaka is laughing
like a maniac.
Frank jumps through a mirrored wall and tosses a knife into Tanaka’s head, killing her.
Gianni and Tommy are reunited. Tommy leaves the room. Gianni is going to kill Frank. Tommy comes back in the room. Gianni and Frank fight. Frank shoots Gianni who isn’t
killed because of his bulletproof vest. Tommy tries to stop Gianni from fighting Frank. The kid might feel some gratitude for his father and himself being saved.
Anyways, Frank and Gianni keep struggling for a gun. It goes off. Gianni is dead, and Tommy checks to see if he’s alive. Frank is walking away. Tommy gets the gun
and wants to kill Frank. Frank seems a bit unbalanced. If Tommy kills him maybe that will keep Tommy from becoming a mobster.
Frank warns Tommy to be a good man or he’ll be waiting. Frank leaves. Jake gets there and tries to follow him. Frank has managed to escape. Back in the
sewers, Frank is still fighting against crime.
