I read The Punisher comic books when I was young, so I liked the movie. My wife? Not so much. I seem to enjoy these Marvel-comics-made-into-movies more than most people I ask…maybe because I was partial to them when I was a kid, maybe because I’m willing to forgive the comic-like plot devices and cheese factor. I thought Travolta was for shit (my kingdom for another villain like Top Dollar in The Crow) and I can barely stand Rebecca Romjin in any movie, but Tom Jane made a good Frank Castle.

Certainly, the movie was nothing spectacular, just a re-telling of a story that I liked long ago. If nothing else, it was a good undercard for today’s main event: Kill Bill: Volume 2, followed by Habs/Bruins game 6.