![]() “Peppermint,” an STXFilms release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “strong violence and language throughout.” Running time: 102 minutes. But maybe, just maybe, next time consider a woman or two behind the camera (and script) as well. And, frankly, as long as this genre continues to entertain audiences, Garner is a compelling a lead as any, and more so than quite a few of the men who get so many parts like this. “Peppermint” is not some model of equality, it’s just violent escapism that happens to have a woman in the lead role. The movie is tight, suspenseful and extremely entertaining, especially since it has a shorter running time than most movies nowadays, which is welcome and takes you back to the 80s and 90s where a movie didn't have to be 150 minutes long. It’s a movie that is really best seen with a big, rowdy crowd who will be there to laugh at all the bravado. And there are a few twists and turns (some eye-rolling, some not) as you wait for her inevitable showdown with Diego Garcia (Juan Pablo Raba). ![]() The funny thing about “Peppermint” is that even in spite of its ridiculousness and clichés and flashbacks filled with stock sounds of giggling children, the movie does start to lull you into submission when the revenge stops really start picking up. But a deeply corrupt system lets them walk, and Riley goes rogue, disappearing for a few years to learn how to be a killer and return on the five-year anniversary of the incident to execute all who wronged her. Riley of course survives, barely, and awakes from a coma, gets a grief pixie haircut and immediately identifies the three men with the face tattoos who killed her husband and daughter. It’s almost disappointing that there’s no shot of the melting peppermint ice cream next to her fallen family, but there are plenty of silly ones to come (like, say, a bloody handprint on a tombstone that the police use as an indication that she’s been there). ![]() Peppermint is wildly hypocritical with its fair share of laughably bad moments in the first half, but once those bits. Why, you might ask, all the bloodshed, mayhem and stereotypes? Riley is just a regular middle class mom juggling a job and parental responsibilities in a sensible midi skirt and conservative sweater before she watches her husband and young daughter get gunned down by agents of powerful Latin drug boss at a public fair. Full Review Original Score: 4/10 Dec 7, 2020. She uses a maxi pad as a makeshift bandage to sop up the blood from a gushing knife wound and may have a higher body count than John Wick by the end of the film. It’s a movie in which the central character, Riley North (Jennifer Garner), is called a “female vigilante” by a local news anchor, and a “soccer mom” by Los Angeles police. The action in the movie is great, with plenty of fights getting more intense along the way.įinal Thoughts – Peppermint is an entertaining action movie, that never stops the fight.The insane revenge movie “ Peppermint " starts to make a lot more sense when you realize that it was directed by the man who brought us “Taken” (Pierre Morel) and written by one at least partially responsible for “London Has Fallen” (Chad St. Something we haven’t seen from her in a while recently. Jennifer Garner is great in the leading role of the movie, showing her action skills. A person that lost everything and the legal system failed them, deciding to have their own justice. It would be easy to compare this to ‘Law Abiding Citizen’. It is at one time a lean action thriller, at a brisk hour 42 minutes, but at the same time is an unfocused film that fails to deliver on the cathartic revenge. It shows how one woman will have everything taken from her and given no support from the legal system. ![]() Peppermint is an action thriller following a grieving woman who becomes a killing machine as she searches for vengeance. Riley has returned to get her own revenge on everyone involved in the killing and failure of justice. The trial sees the case thrown out, with Riley escaping into the wind.ĥ-years-later Detectives Carmichael (Gallager Jr) and Beltran (Ortiz) are called to investigate the murders of the three men accused of killing Riley’s family. Story: Peppermint starts when Riley (Garner) sees her husband and daughter gunned down by a ruthless gangster’s crew Diego Garcia (Raba). There may be spoilers in the rest of the review Plot: Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free. John Gallagher Jr ( 10 Cloverfield Lane).ABC Film Challenge -Action – P – Peppermint – Movie Review ![]()
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