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  Review by matt lynch ★½ 4

  This will enjoy cable immortality on Lifetime.

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  Review by megan ★ 1

  jennifer garner deserves better than the life and career we have provided for her

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★

  Terrible, of course, but the bit in here where she guns down a bunch of MS-13 homies in a piñata store while Spanish nu-metal plays in the background is flagrantly racist and violent in a way Roth's boring ass literal Death Wish remake didn't even attempt. Kinda respected it honestly.

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  Review by MaryAnn 🌵 ★★★½

  Jennifer Garner could punch me in the face and I'd say thank you.

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  Review by {Todd} ★ 1

  "There's nothing you can do about it," -Everyone in this movie

  2018 Ranked: boxd.it/1O9TO

  After Jennifer Garner's family (supposedly poor people that have two cars, live in a nice house, wear nice clothes, and have a preppy precocious daughter) is killed by Mexican drug dealers (did I mention they are Mexican because they are Mexican, and by that I mean they are movie Mexicans written and created by a white guy named Chad St. John), she encounters an insanely unrealistic criminal justice system that can do nothing for her and lets the killers go free forever. She then yada yadas five years of her life into intense combat training (I don't know, all the interesting stuff happens off-screen in this…

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★½ 4

  Talk about a balls to the wall action movie. 

  I admire the brutality in Peppermint. Jennifer Garner’s character gives zero fucks. All she cares about is revenge. She goes after everyone, and no one is safe from her Death Wish-esque style of revenge. 

  We have a few plot holes. I question the actions of a few characters, and Method Man deserved more screen time. However, Peppermint packs an action uppercut punch to the chin. I liked it. I liked it a lot!

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  Review by RCDoom9113 ★★ 5

  I saw the trailer for this and assumed it was a Taken spin-off with a female lead, and I'm sure that wasn't too far off from how it was pitched. The revenge based thrillers and actioners have been around for only slightly less time then movies themselves, and they'll be around for as long as movies are made. It's essentially guaranteed that plots where revenge is the motive of the story will constantly be churned out regardless of the audiences interest. It's not necessarily hard to come up with a unique and somewhat original approach to this now standardized genre, but it does require some creativity and thinking. They're easy to come up with and the stories, more times then…

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  Review by Tasha Robinson ★★ 1

  Pretty aggressively mediocre, but kinda interesting sheerly for the gender-swapped take on the usual "man loses wife and child to criminals and runs amuck" plot.

  My favorite bit was where Partner Cop wants to tell Protagonist Cop to back off Bad Guy Drug Dealer for deeply suspicious reasons, so by way of illustrating that Bad Guy Drug Dealer is dangerous, he… raids the LAPD evidence locker, I guess, and checks out the badge of a dead detective in order to wave it in Protagonist Cop's face and tell him "You know what happened to the last detective who went after this guy? This is his badge." I wonder what the departmental code is for checking something out of an evidence locker for dramatic purposes.

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★ 2

  Like Eli Roth's reboot of the Death Wish franchise before it, Peppermint is a standard, by-the-numbers revenge action thriller that's getting an amount of hate that I feel is rather unjustified, as the film is so generic and goes through the motions in such a plain, blandly adequate fashion that to work up the energy to get angry at it is just ridiculous. That being said, given the talent involved, this could've been much better, although Jennifer Garner delivers a really strong performance and Pierre Morel once again proves he's a rock-solid director of action sequences.

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  Review by JBird ★★

  Jennifer Garner plays "Peppermint",
  Getting into the action-star stint.
  Acting over the top,
  Especially the cops,
  Following the revenge-flick blueprint.

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  Review by 🤎jess🤎 ★½ 1

  just bc this was bad doesn't mean a girl still can't enjoy watching jen take despicable men out like flies while looking like THAT.

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  Review by Etienne Garde ★★½ 2

  Okayer Revenge-Flick. Inhaltlich nix neues an der Death Wish-Klon-Front, aber hierbei handelt es sich zumindest handwerklich um einen soliden Ableger. Nichts ist wirklich super, aber er macht auch nicht viel falsch.
  Wie schon bei "Taken" zeigt Pierre Morel, wie man einen kompromisslosen Rachefeldzug gut inszeniert. Jennifer Garner liefert ohne Frage ab und ist für mich das Highlight des Films. Eine Mischung aus Sarah Connor und Bryan Mills, die ein ganzes Drogenkartel im Alleingang zerlegt. Hier ist natürlich auch der große Punkt, dass das alles natürlich großer Quatsch ist. So wird eine gutbürgerlicher Familien-Mutter plötzlich innerhalb von 5 Jahren eine absolute Killermaschine,
  Da hätte man mit etwas mehr Enthusiasmus im Autorenteam vielleicht plausiblere Wege finden können. Und naja, es gibt schon…