The impressively muscular chest of Tom Jane is the focal point of <I>The Punisher</I> a movie based on a Marvel Comics superhero. Frank Castle (Jane <I>Deep Blue Sea</I>) retires from the FBI which means--as any moviegoer expects--that his family is toast. Howard Saint (John Travolta <I>Face/Off</I>) a shady Florida businessman whose son was killed in Castle's last mission orders a hit not only on Castle's wife and child but also on his parents and a whole bunch of aunts uncles cousins and so forth. The killers shoot Castle himself in the chest but he inexplicably survives and--as any moviegoer expects--sets out to even the score. Implausibly given his sometimes curious and roundabout methods he succeeds. Also featuring Will Patton (<I>Armageddon</I>) as an oily thug Laura Harring (<I>Mulholland Drive</I>) as Saint's fleshpot wife and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (<I>X-Men</I>) as a waitress with bad taste in men. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>