6/22/2023 0 Comments Peppermint cast![]() and begins taking out everyone who wronged her: the shooters, the lawyers, the judge. Sure?)įive years later, she returns to L.A. ![]() (She does not change her name to Peppermint the film is apparently named after the flavor of ice cream Riley’s daughter is eating when she is murdered. En route, Riley breaks free and escapes, going underground, training in cage matches, and stealing a bunch of firearms in preparation for her grand revenge. (Did you honestly think they would live? Maybe you should go see Peppermint it might be more fun for you than it was for me.) Riley identifies the killers, but the Los Angeles judicial system, crooked as the day is long and notorious for letting minority gang members walk, dismisses her testimony and sends her to a psych ward. Garner stars as a lady named Riley North, an L.A.-dwelling middle class mom whose husband’s brief dalliance with a plot to rob a drug kingpin ends with him and their young daughter getting mowed down in the street. If anything, changing one element of the formula does more to expose its dullness than the same movie starring Liam Neeson. ![]() An extremely fusty vengeance tale from the director of Taken with a raging bloodlust for tattooed brown men, Peppermint has no surprises up its sleeve, and casting Jennifer Garner as the put-upon housewife turned gun-toting vigilante doesn’t change that. If we needed any proof that the methodology of Hollywood’s “Extreme Makeover: Gender Edition” is broken, Peppermint might be just the thing. ![]()
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