Corrected entry: Howard can't find Frank for days, but Harry Heck can find him in less than a day and in the exact restaurant.
Corrected entry: When Howard Saint is starting to get suspicious of his wife and Quentin, he asks for last month's phone bill, but it only happened last Thursday, Sept. 5th. That would make it Thursday Sept. 12th, so I don't think last month's phone bill would really help. (01:30:05)
Correction: He asked for last month's bill because he was checking to see if this has been going on for longer than a week.
Corrected entry: Near the end, when the Punisher sets down his dog tags on the table, they make a metal clinking sound. However, you can see that the dog tags are framed in black. That's because they have a rubber dog tag silencer on them, specifically used so that they won't make that clinking noise. (01:52:10)
Correction: It's not the dog tags hitting the table, it is the beaded chain hitting the exposed metal of the dog tag.
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie when Saint's men are shooting the Castle family, there is a scene where one of the family members tries to ride off on a motorcycle. One of Saint's men shoots him in the back and he falls off next to the bike. Later on Frank runs over to the bike and takes off on it, but in the long shot of Frank running to the motorcycle, the body is gone.
Correction: The shot of the bike coming to a stop, with the body a short distance away, shows the body about 10 feet to the left of the bike. The shot of Castle running towards it is from behind the bike, and columns and curtains are blocking the view of where the body is.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Frank runs up to his wife and son there is an overhead shot of him kneeling next to his family after they have been run over by saint's men. There is no blood anywhere on the dock. If they had been killed there would definitely been some sort of blood around the bodies and tire tracks trailing blood after running down the wife and child.
Correction: When you get run over by a vehicle, you usually die from internal bleeding. The mother and child were merely run over by the truck, which doesn't lead to the amount of blood you might assume.
Corrected entry: If Frank has been away from the beach house long enough to grow a beard, then there is no way the punisher shirt would not have washed away. When he picks it up it is wet and covered with sand where it has washed up on shore but the shirt would have gone out with the tide more than once, and the chances of it washing up more than once are ridiculous.
Corrected entry: When Frank blows up all the cars to kill Howard Saint, they form the Punisher skull. If those cars are not parked in any particular pattern (they aren't since its just a parking lot), how would Frank know exactly which cars to blow up?
Corrected entry: When Frank and the Russian are throwing each other through the walls in Frank's apartment, and then through the door in Bumbo's apartment, there are no studs in the walls and the doorway, like there should have been.
Correction: Not all walls are built with studs. The walls in question in this building are supported with horizontal slats that were supported by end studs and a center support. This was a cheaper style of building used in the 50's and 60's to keep building costs down while still providing adequate support. Many buildings still in use today have these style walls.
Corrected entry: When Howard Saint's men are going to Puerto Rico, they start from Tampa, Florida. This doesn't make any sense because it would take a while for them to get there, and it would also waste gas. Why wouldn't they start from Miami?
Corrected entry: When Howard Saint's other son is on the dock beating up Frank, there is one point when he kicks Frank off the dock and onto another lower part of the dock. When he kicks him, it is clear that the wood has been pre-cut so it's very easy to break, therefore very easy to kick Frank through it. Use slow motion. (00:28:55)
Correction: It's not a valid mistake if you have to use slow motion to spot it.
Corrected entry: At the end, Castle is standing outside his parked car at sunset on a traffic-less bridge. That is on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Florida where there is never a time of day, especially rush-hour, that a person could park their car and get out.
Correction: Look at the position of the sun behind Frank. No way was that shot taken during rush hour, more like between 5 and 6 am. As such, traffic could have been light enough to allow for that shot. The bridge is 29k feet long which is about 5.5 miles. More than enough time for a 25 second spot to be shot without cars passing.
Negative. If that shot was in the morning, with the sun rising in the east, you'd see land in the background (south of Tampa). The shot is facing east, with Egmont Key and Ft. DeSoto Park in the background.
Corrected entry: In the car chase scene with Frank and Harry Heck, Frank hits an oncoming car and flips his own vehicle. In the shot where Frank's car is in the air and the rear of the car that he hit is visible, the ramp used to make the car flip can be seen by the other car. (01:06:20)
Correction: I have viewed this scene many times with slow motion and frame by frame and I cannot see any kind of ramp near or at the side of the car making the car flip over.
Corrected entry: Right after the pier explodes and Frank is blown off of the dock into the water, Saint's men speed away down the pier in the red truck, all of the writing on the buildings is backwards. (00:31:50)
Correction: No its not, in the previous scene where Saint's men crash the 4x4, they crash into the hut called Scuba, the shot you see when there driving away is from behind the truck with the scuba hut still on the left but right from the shot from the front of the truck.
Corrected entry: When Dave knocks on Frank's door to trick him into coming to dinner, Frank loads his pistol before answering. He put the magazine in and chambers the first round, but when he manipulates the action, the ejection port doesn't open.
Correction: You actually can see the chamber open, it is dark in the room so you can hardly see it, but it opens.
Corrected entry: When Howard Saint is stabbing Leonard Glass, the knife has no blood on it, even after he has stabbed him several times.
Correction: I was (unfortunatly) witness to a stabbing on a reality TV show, and the knife was perfectly clean when pulled out. The tight skin in the wound sometimes pulls blood off like a sponge.
Corrected entry: After running down Frank's wife and son, the villains all calmly stand around as Frank picks up the shotgun, works the slide and pulls the trigger only to find that the shotgun was empty. Since there was no way they could have known the gun was empty, why would they just stand still as Frank pulled the trigger?
Correction: Tthe bad guys DID know the gun was empty. Frank fires two shots at the pick-up. Some shotguns can only be loaded with two shells at a time, limiting them to two consecutive shots before needing to be reloaded again. The Saint Gang recognized the type of gun and knew that two shots had been fired, meaning that they had nothing to fear. Frank was too shaken up by the deaths of his family to remember that his gun was empty.
Corrected entry: On the docks after Castle's family is killed, Frank shoots a hole in the windshield of the truck that the thugs are riding. In the next shot, a smiley face made of bullet holes can be seen on the windshield.
Correction: The "smiley face" is continuous from one shot to the next, and looks exactly the same from initial creation to our last sight of it. It might be an inside joke, but we can't say it's a mistake.
Corrected entry: Howard Saint's men could find out that Otto Creed was really Frank Castle, and all this other biographical information on him in 24 hours, and his exact location in Puerto Rico, but it took days to find out where his apartment is.
Correction: Frank is no longer with the FBI. He wasn't in contact with anyone so it's understandable that it would take longer to find a man that is off the radar.
Corrected entry: How did Frank get his Black Pontiac back? After his car rolled and he killed Harry Heck, we see him jump into Harry's car and drive off. A dead body and an upside down car in the middle of the street would have been quickly discovered and the damaged car would have been impounded. But at the end, we see Frank drive off in the pontiac.
Correction: It isn't the GTO...it was Harry Heck's car. If you look closely when he gets in you can see the green hood.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Castle gets out of his hideout elevator after being stabbed on his left chest by the Russian, the next shot when he's about to kill one of Saint's guys his chest is perfectly fine with no cuts and blood.
Correction: After the fight with the Russian, Frank's shoulder is stitched up by Joan. They hide in the elevator while Saint's men interrogate the 2 other guys. When they leave and Frank rises from the elevator, it has been a few hours, and the stitch should have stopped the bleeding.
Correction: Harry Heck was hired specifically to find Castle. Quentin Glass was confident that he would find him, because as he put it "In 48 hours, Castle's a memory. A pro from Memphis, the best." We just don't see how Heck is able to locate Castle because it isn't essential to the plot.
Phaneron ★