The Eye-tie villains were worse than a cliche. The CRAZY guy was stupid. And the ending sorta-Mexican standoff was incoherent. About the only thing that the movie had going to it was that it didn't try to turn Wayne Knight into misguided comic relief.

But if you ever enjoyed Predator, Commando, Rambo, Robocop, or any other unapologetically R-rated action movies, you basically owe it to yourself to watch Punisher.

Haha! I love all those movies, so Punisher was right up my alley, yes. It was nice to be pleasantly surprised for once. I went into Quantum of Solace expecting greatness and was disappointed; I went into Punisher expecting glorious suck and found myself enjoying it far more than I'd anticipated. So that's why, yes, Punisher works better than the latest Bond. I know, I'm crazy.

I have really dug the Hellboy movies, though, and My Name Is Bruce has a lot of laughs. Fun films, all of them.

Watching War Zone back to back with Quantum of Solace just confirmed this. Both movies are action/revenge movies, but Punisher War Zone was savaged by the critics while Quantum of Solace was one of the biggest hits of last year. However, after leaving the theater, the only thing I could think about was that I was amazed by how completely bad QoS was. The action scenes were an incoherent hodgepodge of quick cuts trying to emulate the Bourne movies while forgetting how to choreograph a fight so that anyone could follow the action, whereas War Zone had exceedingly well-done, straightforward fight scenes that prove that you don't need to jerk the camera around like a spastic to make a "visceral" action scene. Not to mention that Frank Castle wins his battles based on his own skill, whereas by my recollection, the only reason Bond even survived the final fight scene with Dominic Greene was because Greene was somehow stupid enough to accidentally chop his own foot in half with a fire axe while trying to hit Bond.

Yeah, half the performances in War Zone were hammier than a Christmas dinner, but guess what? That made the movie FUN. After something as dour and joyless as QoS, watching West and Hutchinson chew the scenery was exactly what I needed to see.

I guess if your idea of a good action movie is some neutered PG-13 parkour festival with jerky camera, yeah, you're gonna hate War Zone. But if you ever enjoyed Predator, Commando, Rambo, Robocop, or any other unapologetically R-rated action movies, you basically owe it to yourself to watch Punisher.

Also Bill, you didn't miss much with Netflix, I'm pretty sure the second disc is just a digital copy of the film for your iPod or computer.

It is bad. Awful, in fact. If I can encourage even one person to NOT see this movie who otherwise might have, my efforts have not been in vain.

If you're looking for an odd out of the way DVD for Nerds reference....look for the movie 'Special' which just hit the shelves this week. It's about a guy who gains superpowers in a clinical trial. Or perhaps a guy who has a psychotic episode about gaining super powers while in a clinical trial.

Needless to say, it was the finest moment of my movie going life.

Also, Punisher was perfectly fine for what it was supposed to be, but the scene where Dom. West is doing the Vince McMahon power walk around the Lower East Side was priceless.

Hellboy 2 was just Del Torro's audition for the Hobbit.