Jennifer Garner shows her particular set of action skills in this movie helmed by 'Taken' director Pierre Morel. The only thing ‘Peppermint’ does accomplish, after ‘Proud Mary’, ‘Traffik’ and ‘Breaking In’, is to cement 2018 as the year Hollywood proved itself incapable of turning out a decent female-led action film. Starring: Jennifer Garner, John Ortiz, John Gallagher Jr. Even the significance of the title isn’t properly established. You know that clichéd visual trick where the image double-exposes and skitters around the screen like the projector is suffering a stroke? Morel uses it far too often in ‘Peppermint’, in place of bringing any pace or actual style that might have distracted from its many implausibilities. And rather than making any attempt to give Riley an inner life, or explicating her transition from suburban mom to lethal assassin, ‘Peppermint’ wastes time with boring scenes of hapless law-enforcement types trying to track her down. Instead of taking any meaningful vengeance, Riley spends most of her screen time blowing away the kingpin’s anonymous underlings. Cut to five years later: The killers’ corpses are already hanging from a Ferris wheel (huh?), and we never even see the lawyer’s fate. A sleazy lawyer and a paid-off judge assure that the trio won’t face justice and almost get Riley committed to a psych ward, but she escapes. Also featuring John Ortiz, John Gallagher Jr., Juan Pablo Raba, and Tyson Ritter, the plot follows a widow who transforms herself into a vigilante in a quest for revenge against the drug cartel that killed her daughter and husband. Garner plays Riley North, who watches her husband and little daughter get machine-gunned by three minions of a drug lord who her husband’s friend tried to rip off. In Peppermint, Garner stars as Riley North, a widowed mother seeking revenge against a cartel that killed her mechanic husband, Chris (Jeff Hephner), and their ten-year-old daughter. Peppermint is a 2018 American vigilante action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and starring Jennifer Garner. Star Jennifer Garner must have thought this flick would do for her career what director Pierre Morel’s ‘Taken’ did for Liam Neeson’s, but the result is bad enough to make any actor take an alias. What kind of vigilante thriller doesn’t give you the satisfaction of watching the heroine take out the thugs who murdered her family? A movie as brainless and incompetent as ‘Peppermint’.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |