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Trust Weighted
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Wick's Review
Summary - Good 3.0
Jennifer Garner ably leads an action movie, convincingly playing an avenging mother who takes down an LA-based drug cartel and the corrupt law enforcement officers on their payroll. Will this be enough for the studio to order a sequel? Probably not, but it’s enough to be entertained by Peppermint.
Acting - Very Good 3.5
Jennifer Garner is a great star, not just charismatic but compelling in genres from soft to hard. She starts soft here as a harried wife and mother, and then turns very hard after a drug-gang kills her family. Her Riley North character is therefore kinda sequel worthy, but not tremendously sequel worthy.
- John Gallagher Jr. is rather wan as a homicide detective.
- John Ortiz is always interesting, here as another homicide detective.
- Annie Ilonzeh jumps offscreen as a savvy FBI agent.