Peppermint is a revenge tail about Riley played by Jennifer Garner, a woman who loses her family to a Mexican cartel shooting. After the justice system fails to punish the people involved Riley find the cartel and the system guilty of failing her and her family, pushing her to go into hiding and train for five years in order to take out all of the people involved with the killing of her daughter and husband, as well as the people who did nothing to take them to jail. Peppermint, has a title that doesn't make sense to the plot, well, it kind of does but that doesn't take away that its a very fun movie and a action packed adventure. In the same vein as Salt and Atomic Blonde, most people now a days connect these movies to John Wick. Give a person a gun and let them gun down a large group of bad guys and the comparison to Wick is always the standard. I see a closer relationship with Salt and Atomic more than Wick. Riley is a tough cookie but even the lowest assassin on Wick could probably take her down.
The dialogue of the film started out bad but you get past that as the plot thickens. The music choices were also misused making me have to ignore that as well. I was beginning to feel like this was going to be another Elektra fiasco. Suddenly Garner takes down a group of men in an impossible situation that rivaled some of the best 80's classic actions and then you get the sense that this could be something special.
At one point I felt that the attack that caused her damage to her head may have given her a superpower, seemed as if she possessed a super like photographic memory but this feeling disappeared because it was barely referenced after the first few times I noticed it. Besides that, Riley did seem to develop a powerful will to avenge her family that made her seem all but invincible. This was a fun ride of a film and I have no doubt the critics will rip it to shreds but if the people give it a chance it could gain legs at the box office.
Check out the review on YouTube, after the first ten minutes there are some spoilers.
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