Written by Old Bluffer 12th Feb 2009

Maginty is a dreadlocked acrobatic criminal with an (extremely dubious) Irish accent who spends all his waking moments "on a permananent meth high".  He and his two cronies are also practitioners of that horribly overused activity of modern films, parkour or freerunning.  This is where every movement they do is performed with an annoyingly flamboyant acrobatic flourish.  We've seen it all before ad nauseum of course, but in this movie they all get what is coming to them!

At the point of their deaths, Maginty has made a rooftop jump and is waiting for his two mates to join him.

One parkours off the roof and is killed in spectacular fashion as his side somersault is intercepted beautifully by the Punisher's rocket propelled grenade. Personally, I think all free runners in movies should suffer the same fate...

Maginty barely has time to register this unusual turn of events before the other guy gets drilled through the forehead by a bullet.  This shot is closely followed by two more, this time aimed at him, which replace his kneecaps with air vents.

He slumps to the floor in some considerable pain, and starts blabbing answers to whatever The Punisher (AKA Frank Castle) wants to know.  It is unclear what his motivation is here, as everyone in the city knows that Castle has brutally executed literally hundreds of criminals, so there is absolutely no way anything he says will be rewarded with leniency.

This is all academic though, as blab he does, and soon Castle knows the whereabouts of Jigsaw's lair.

All that is left to do after this is finish off Maginty's punishment.  This is achieved in an efficient if somewhat lacklustre manner. Castle simply lobs him off the edge of the roof, and Maginty plummets in a rather less ostentatious manner than he is used to.

His suffering is not quite at an end though, as he lands chest-up on some iron fencing railings and is well and truly spiked on them.

As a final display of his own style of parkour, The Punisher leaps after him and lands upon his face, which snaps his neck backwards at ninety degrees.



Old Bluffer's Thoughts

This was a pretty good death, as I'm thoroughly sick of these freerunners popping up in films nowadays, and he does suffer quite a bit.

Maginty is really nothing more than a paper cut-out character though, and gets little screen time. He basically exists purely to do a bit of parkour, so he's fairly pointless.  The death would have been considerably more satisfying had we seen more of Maginty being a drug-crazed b*stard.