![]() ![]() This abhorrent blunder is almost terrible enough to justify recommending. The only silver lining is that it is sure to spark a clever How Did This Get Made? episode sometime in the near future. A mishmash of misplaced scruples and corny, flash burst TV editing, it’s a wonder that Peppermint was ever given a theatrical release. That’s the brand of jarring short-sightedness we’re dealing with here. Early on, our protagonist preaches the gospel of nonviolence to her daughter, and then immediately – and quite ferociously – abandons her bumper sticker platitude so she can animalistically torture those who scorned her. It feels like a dusty relic from an era of overt bigotry we’ve tried to leave buried in the past.Ī failure on virtually every level, Peppermint is a slapdash, half-hearted affront to anyone unfortunate enough to get caught in its crosshairs. It’s as if someone watched a season of Breaking Bad and learned all the wrong reasons. A jingoistic Trump supporter’s wet dream, this tale is almost impressively racist. Not the least of the script’s glaring issues is its tendency to lean heavily on every single offensive stereotype attributed to the Latinx community, and even create some of its own. And any entertainment to be found in Peppermint is at the movie’s own expense. It requires extreme deficiencies in both morality and logic in order to get any enjoyment out of this abomination. With a little bit of combat training and a lot of heavy weaponry, she turns into some sort of twisted Batman character, taking on a vigilante persona who methodically hunts down all-but-nameless people of color with a level of brutality that would even make Eli Roth blush. After the hopelessly corrupt criminal justice system fails her, Riley is forced to go into hiding, lying in wait to take the law into her own hands. John follows Garner as Riley North (really!), a struggling bank teller who witnesses her husband (Jeff Hephner) and daughter (Cailey Fleming) get viciously gunned down at the world’s stagiest Christmas carnival. The laughable script, penned by Chad “ London Has Fallen ” St. (Think last year’s Kidnap, but if Halle Berry had a full arsenal at her disposal.) Riddled with the genre’s most glaring clichés and spewing rhetoric that can only be interpreted as caustic fear-mongering, Peppermint rarely goes an entire scene without actively making a case against its own woeful existence. ![]() ![]() Not to miss the wave, Jennifer Garner is hitting theaters as a vigilante mom in the decade’s latest – and a strong contender for most vile – toothless shoot-em-up. From Taken to Death Wish to John Wick, it would appear that what moviegoers are yearning for is good old-fashioned, blood-thirsty vengeance. ![]() In the 2010s, it would appear that there’s no better way to revive a dwindling movie star’s career than to toss them at the center of a gun-fueled revenge flick. ![]()
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