No disrespect I enjoy your reviews, but when a movie is called Punisher Warzone and is based on a comic. I'm not expecting something like Jean Pierre Melville's character study Le Samourai. I was expecting something more like The Boondock Saints, crappy acting entertaining action. Anyway more on topic knives like this will sell, simply for the fact it's in celluloid. Look at The Hunted TOPS is just trying to cash in on the guys who got to have it.
Boondock Saints isn't a movie characterized by "crappy acting entertaining action," in my opinion -- it's a quirky cult film that's actually quite good, despite not being Oscar-caliber. For that matter, it's entirely possible to do a comic-book-based action movie that doesn't
suck.
Warzone, to me, was just incredibly uneven and badly paced. Ray Stevenson was to its benefit, but even he couldn't overcome that terrible script.
The Punisher is not supposed to be morally ambiguous; he is supposed to be a righteous avenger. When Stevenson's character kills a good man by accident, that righteousness has been tarnished and it harms the movie overall. Couple that with the act of unnecessary plot-driven cruelty wherein Jigsaw is created, and you've got a very soulless, unnecessarily nihilist film. The Punisher is a man driven by the need for justice -- not a callous killer for killing's sake.
And for the record, there is nothing wrong with buying a "movie knife". There isn't a person here that doesn't like something corky in their knife buying here and there. From killer watch bands to comic book knives, there's room for everyone
I don't believe anyone has said, "Dude, don't ever buy movie knives." The original post was not a request for permission to buy a movie tie-in. It was a solitication for opinions about this knife
as a knife. As such, it is not a good one. Whether or not you consider "killer watch bands" to be useful is entirely irrelevant. The question was asked; the question was answered.
It's clear the original poster didn't want an honest opinion; he wanted affirmation for a purchase he has already decided to make. This is unfortunate, for he has indicated he intends to use this knife, not as a movie curio, but as a duty tool -- a role for which it is clearly not well-suited by design. Anyone with a basic working knowledge of knives
ought to be able to see that.
I own a microtech halo for this very reason.
There is nothing the Microtech can do that a Buck 110 cannot -- but there is nothing about the Microtech's design that makes it
unsuitable or
nonfunctional as a knife. The same cannot be said for this Punisher knife.
