At the Movies!

[Mass Distraction]

I just finished watching the second Punisher movie (basically the first since it was the origin story) and I don't really know what to think of it. It was over 2 hours long and it still felt like nothing happened in between the lore establishment in the beginning and the final action scene. There was a forced potential love interest that never went anywhere, even more forced comic relief, a weird moral about friendship (in an R-rated Punisher movie), a cliché turncoat gambling addict cop friend with no real backstory, a couple of one-shot bad guys that were done and dealt with in one or two scenes despite the buildup given to them and instead of Castle's wife and child getting killed in a random act of violence thus creating the Punisher his whole extended family AND his wife's family get slaughtered.

I'm not that big of a Punisher fan and I don't really know much about him but all this just felt so unnecessary. The whole movie felt unnecessary. I've never seen the original film from the 80s, nor do I plan to, but I hope War Zone is at least better.