Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher
When the Punisher takes out a black-market weapons dealer, he stumbles upon a far-reaching terrorist plot devised by a group known as Leviathan.
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- Cast:
- Miyuki Sawashiro , Tessyo Genda , Hideaki Tezuka , Hiroki Touchi , Ryuuzaburou Ootomo , Junko Minagawa , Daisuke Namikawa
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Reviews
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
I'll cop to having read a few issues of The Punisher back in the 90s, when I was barely a teenager. I believe it was actually the only Marvel title I ever read until the introduction of Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel.The Punisher isn't just a dinosaur, he's a relic designed to appeal to the worst kind of 13-year old male power(- less) fantasies. The impetus for the film's action is basically one pathetically insecure guy who doesn't think he's 'man enough' to receive the Black Widow's affections.. so he betrays SHIELD and reinvents himself as a super- powered villain. Classic example of the self-entitled 'Nice Guy' stereotype.Black Widow, of course, is here merely as fanservice.Terrible plot, banal dialog - at one point, there's a line about how many men Fury brought to subdue The Punisher, and even a mediocre hack would've known to riff on the fact that one woman was all it took. The art quality is decent, and I can only wish more Anime had English-language casts this good, but there is nothing else to this production's credit.I'd think fans of The Punisher or Black Widow would especially hate this - not only are they poorly characterized, but they're done so in canon-breaking manner. I men, according to Wikipedia Frank Castle is "in complete control of his mind" and immune to psychological assault, but here he gets brainwashed.. by an iPhone.
Marvel should take a leaf out of DC's book for creating animated feature films...as this has to be the worst thing I have seen on Netflix.The Dialogue/Script is a joke....almost as if a 6 year old has written it for what she thinks adults would want.I can't fully express how bad this film is other than the fact that I have been skipping forward large chunks of it and now I am reviewing it even before finding out what happens at the end.I can't imagine the last 5-6 minutes would somehow redeem this poor excuse of a license cash-in.I just hope somebody would read this and doesn't pay to see this rubbish excuse for an animated film....as we definitely should not reward the producer/director/writer with any source of income for this trite!
DC's animation department is notable for its voice acting, music, blend of art style and the animation itself. When it comes to animated films, DC nails it 95% of the time. That is not the case with Marvel, and this film is a fairly good example of that. Starting with the good, the Punisher is the best thing about it. He's violent, cynical, and couldn't care less about SHIELD's mission over his own. Brian Bloom did an awesome job with him, and he'll probably be the only thing keeping your attention the whole time.That's pretty much the most positive thing that can be said. The music in this film sounds like it came from a cheap porno (or a bad 90's anime film), and while the art is pretty, the animation itself is just bad. It's like watching a bad 90's anime film. And, with the aforementioned exception of Brian Bloom as Frank Castle, the voice acting is awful. Like a...bad 90's anime film...Actually, that's really the best way to describe this whole movie. It really is like a bad, 90's anime movie, complete with balloon boobs on Black Widow (not like she didn't have them in the comics). But if you can get past the voice acting, animation and dialog, then have fun swallowing the fact that the mighty, no nonsense Natasha Romanoff gets turned into a typical fantasy Anime schoolgirl whenever she confronts her love interest, Egghead. Yes, Egghead, the robot and/or the dumpy looking Nazi scientist. But don't worry, he gets redone as a brainwashed Bishonen type of guy, creating a star struck love story as Widow unfortunately works for SHIELD and Elihas Star (you didn't really think they were going to call him Egghead, did you?) works for Orion. It is literally the most predictable thing about this movie, and one of the most grating parts of it. You will be happy when he predictably dies on the right side of the law. Because Redemption=Death and The Power of Love tropes just had to be thrown in to this already clichéd romance subplot that was completely unnecessary and does nothing but take away any credibility from her character. Alright, to sum this up without going to in dept: Action is okay. Everyone's a Jedi who can leap 70 feet in the air and move really slowly. Voice acting is cringe-worthy, dialog is even worse. Punisher's character was the best thing about this film, and Black Widow's good until she gets forced into a romance. And like I've said before, it really does feel like you're watching an anime with every negative anime stereotype, but with American comic book characters.
"Marvel" should stop butchering our favorite heroes by badly reworking them as Japanese anime. I like anime (the good anime) but in this movie the plot, the dialogs, the direction were just as bad as the worst anime titles. Illogical cuts, characterization of protagonists (especially Punisher), shallow Fury, shallow BW; unnecessary love twist and motivation of the evildoers is so bad that this film could easily be one of the worst comic adaptations ever. All falls apart in trying to explain the moral code of the main characters and, as we know from the comics, the question of morality for Punisher and Black Widow is the shadow line if there ever was one. Marvel should employ some good comic screenwriters for their animated movie section and make them see DC's "Dark Knight Returns 1/2" to be sure that the characters and the storyline will be treated properly. That is, if "Marvel" really care about animated section at all. With the last year "Iron Man: Rise of Tehnovore" , "Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United" and now this; Marvel is making themselves a bad reputation as far as the animated movies go. Terrible movie. Not recommended to anyone. It doesn't matter if you're comic book fan or not. The people who did it just don't have the slightest idea about the characters on which they were working, and I should say even about good Japanese anime either.