LOS ANGELES, May 12 (UPI) -- The Punisher: One Last Kill, on Disney+ Tuesday, is a faithful continuation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe iteration of the character. It is somber, violent and gratuitous all in under an hour.
Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) is haunted by the voices of his dead wife and child, his Marine comrades and other MCU cameos. He walks by violence on the streets of Little Sicily in a detached daze.
He only acknowledges the world when Ma Gnucci (Judith Light) calls his name. Castle has killed the Gnucci crime family, beginning in the Netflix series, but made the mistake of leaving her alive.
All of this is to set up a 12-minute action climax when Ma calls all the goons in the city to Castle's apartment building. In a reverse The Raid, Castle fights his way out rather than up the building.
It is an impressive sequence full of brutal stunt choreography. There is plenty of blood spatter on Disney+, though it still often cuts away from many of the most gruesome finishing moves.
