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Joe Foley

Believe it or not, that 'VFX fail' in The Punisher special was filmed with a real stuntman

A sequence from a stunt scene in The Punisher One Last Kill.

Released on Disney+ this week, The Punisher: One Last Kill got generally good reviews, apart from one particular scene, which has taken a real beating. Viewers were shocked by a stunt shot that many declared had the look of 'unfinished VFX' that had been left in the film, either because time and budget ran out, or Marvel Television decided it was good enough.

The shot shows vigilante Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) falling onto a large crate after being pushed from a building. For many viewers, something seemed off. It didn't look like Bernthal's face, and the whole shot resembled computer graphics. After some slowing down and zooming in, people were soon comparing it to a cut scene from a game like Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne or The Last of Us.

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