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Peppermint movie poster 20188/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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).Maybe it’s the split from Ben Affleck that made Garner do an an avenging angel repeatedly punching, stabbing and shooting men that would be a scurrilous suggestion all I know is Garner has much more talent than to work this garbage (as, to be fair, do Saldana, Theron and Geena Davis).ABC Film Challenge -Action – P – Peppermint – Movie Review The only thing that makes this recognisably 2018 is the stylised gun-play and the head-shot kills otherwise this could have been rolled off the production line any time since 1990’s original Nikita and 2017’s Atomic Blonde.Īnyone remember Jodie Foster’s The Brave One? Personally I hated it, but thank you, I rest my case. Or Zoe Saldana… oh, wait, that was Columbiana. ![]() Or if you wanted a qualified kick-ass chick, Zoe Bell, Gina Corano or at a pinch, Milla Jovovich except none of them would have turned in anything this unoriginal. Or Chuck Norris, Van Damme, or Scott Adkins (err… Universal Soldier Reheated) or Dolph Lundgren (err. We could have put Segal in a dress, made it for ten per cent of the $25m budget and all retired to Bermuda with the remainder. This IS at least four Steven Segal movies. Garner’s Riley North goes on a long-play revenger’s make-over to go after the Latino gangsters that murdered her family and left her in a coma, after the justice system fails her. Gentlemen, please have a mid-life crisis and take up raffia-weaving. John scribbled the dire London has Fallen on the back of a match book. Director Pierre Morel has form – Taken, Travolta’s appalling From Paris with Love (a definite red cross) and Sean Penn’s dreary The Gunman. Peppermint is a revenge-action B-movie so lazy, no amount of slick choreography can make even passable. The red cross is a privilege reserved for really crass, patronising, lazy and insulting-to-the-intelligence movies that everyone involved should have known better than to make so badly, but because someone was stupid and greedy enough to stump up the budget, they all shut up, took the money and turned in a turkey, right down to the stupid, stupid title. I could red-cross dozens of really bad B-movies, but I don’t, because they are what they are and somebody with not enough money and/or talent managed to get them made, finished and seen. I don’t often red-cross movies, even really bad ones. Exploitative, formulaic, and cliched, no amount of soc-lib handwringing about the plight of the homeless is going to redeem this hackneyed revenge shoot-em up, no matter how far Garner de-glams and puts herself through the action-movie wringer. ![]() Jennifer Garner’s Extreme Makeover: Vigilante Mom edition is exactly the Jane Wick gender-swap Death Wish that nobody needed. ![]()
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