| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...enthusiastically violent even for its genre." more... |
C- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Its only flaw is that it's disgusting." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"Recast vigilante classes up a gorefest." more... |
C |
E! Online
Luke Y. Thompson |
"The movie's raison d'être... is its gloriously over-the-top kill scenes." more... |
B |
Entertainment Weekly
Clark Collis |
"...Stevenson doesn't have much to do except look gloomy..." more... |
C+ |
filmcritic.com
Jesse Hassenger |
"...occasionally terrible enough to be funny, but never funny enough to overcome its thundering stupidity." more... |
D+ |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"With its dopey fight scenes, grimy look and goopy gore, this movie is so far from ept that inept is the wrong word. It's anti-ept." more... |
F |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"...does it have to be so witless, so stupid, so openly contemptuous of the very audience it’s supposed to be pandering to? " more... |
D- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub |
"Assuming you can appreciate the high level of gore and assorted sadistic weirdness, the action is satisfying and the dark story is close to the tone of its Marvel Comics source material." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"It's content to bludgeon the audience into numb resignation." more... |
D |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"At one point, the Punisher is asked who punishes him. The better question for those who made this inane bloodfest is: Why punish us?" more... |
C- |
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