Peppermint

Jennifer Garner plays a mother turned violent vigilante after her husband and daughter are gunned down in the latest action film from Pierre Morel, the director of 'Taken.'

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Peppermint is a Jennifer Garner vehicle with no bite or originality

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“Taken” director Pierre Morel returns with another gloriously dumb (and vaguely racist) parental revenge tale

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Take into consideration the film’s heavy metal musical cues and MTV-inspired editing, and Peppermint seems to be an action movie two decades too late. Surely, Garner deserves better than this.

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Jennifer Garner out for vengeance in superviolent action flick

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This half-witted “Taken” knock-off squanders a chance to give Jennifer Garner the action franchise she deserves.

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Morel directs the scenes of action mayhem with aplomb, but he also glamorizes them, such as with slow-motion sequences that allow us to better appreciate the righteous, precision-targeted violence that Riley unleashes on Garcia’s gang, one man at a time.

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There's a morbidly hilarious dark comedy buried not-so-deep inside the lousy revenge thriller "Peppermint."

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Jennifer Garner has a very particular set of skills. But this copycat action flick doesn’t let her use them.

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Peppermint is a belabored exercise in lazily constructed déjà vu, without the grit or stylized ham of predecessors it so baldly steals from.

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