Written by Old Bluffer 12th Feb 2009

Billy "The Beaut" Russoti is a high ranking mobster whose gang is attacked by the Punisher at the start of what is a rather violent film to say the least.  Luckily for Billy, he isn't present at this massacre, and after the carnage he takes control to become the boss.

The Punisher isn't going to let him enjoy his promotion though, and soon tracks him down to his recycling plant hideaway, where he easily blows all the henchmen away and boots Billy directly into a crusher filled with glass bottles.  At this point he could easily just shoot him dead, but he is called The Punisher for a reason, and decides that it would be far more fitting to switch on the machinery instead.

What follows is wince-inducingly predictable, as the bottles start to splinter into shards and get ground against every square inch of the hapless gangster.

Suffice to say, after this environmentally friendly ordeal, he will no longer be known as "The Beaut".

It seems Billy must surely die, as we see him smeared in a bloody mess up against a viewing pane, but when the cops finally arrive to clean up the mess, they discover he is still breathing.

Cut to a stereotypical scene where a plastic surgeon is nervously explaining to Billy that his horrendous injuries gave him very little to work with. This is all par for the course for a comic book villain, and Billy impatiently instructs him to remove the head bandages.

The rather naive surgeon does so, and Ink, one of Billy's henchmen, pukes up the contents of his stomach the instant the reconstructed face is exposed.

Ink isn't made of very stern stuff, as Billy's face is more humourous  than horrific. The plastic surgeon hasn't really gone to much effort, and indeed, the results are rather like the laser valmorphication procedure in Team America World Police. I swear it looks like he used a normal office stapler to join up some of the flaps of skin, which is surely cost cutting taken too far! [actually this is possibly explained by a reference to Billy missing an insurance payment so he couldn't get decent health care, so maybe staples and gaffer tape are normal for Americans on welfare, I'm not sure]

The vomiting henchman doesn't really help the doc's cause, and we know he is doomed when Billy ominously says to his men, "Leave us, I'd like to be alone with my doctor."

The goons wait outside for a suitable period and then nervously shuffle back in.

"Are you OK Billy?" they enquire, as they find the plastic surgeon with his scissors embedded deeply through his forehead and into the brain.

"Billy's dead." says the mutilated villain, "Call me Jigsaw".