CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Mike Clark - USA Today

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Peter Bernard - Sun-Sentinel.com

Michael Rechtshaffen - Hollywood Reporter

Michael Machosky - Pittsburgh Live

Jonathan Foreman - NY Post

A.O. Scott - NY Times

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Jack Garner - Gannett News Service

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Gary Dowell - Dallas Morning News

Margaret A. McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - AccessAtlanta

Robert K. Elder - Chicago Tribune

Colin Covert - startribune.com

DUELING CRITICS

"Trashy and disturbingly violent yet fairly zippy and amusingly cast...I don't want to go to the mat cheering this movie on against naysayers of all creeds, yet it does have a comic-book spirit and one of the great final exits for a villain in years"

- Mike Clark

"Cruel but not at all unusual, The Punisher is a painful experience, nasty in its conception, clumsy in its execution and wearisome in its bloated length. In this by-the-numbers payback melodrama, even the explosions seem half-hearted"

- Colin Covert