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Title: Peppermint (2018)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jennifer Garner | ... | Riley North | |
| John Gallagher Jr. | ... | Detective Stan Carmichael | |
| John Ortiz | ... | Detective Moises Beltran | |
| Juan Pablo Raba | ... | Diego Garcia | |
| Annie Ilonzeh | ... | FBI Agent Lisa Inman | |
| Jeff Hephner | ... | Chris North | |
| Cailey Fleming | ... | Carly North | |
| Eddie Shin | ... | FBI Agent Li | |
| Method Man | ... | Narcotics Detective Barker (as Cliff 'Method Man' Smith) | |
| Tyson Ritter | ... | Homeless Sam | |
| Ian Casselberry | ... | Cortez | |
| Richard Cabral | ... | Salazar | |
| Johnny Ortiz | ... | Torres | |
| Michael Reventar | ... | Ortega | |
| Kyla-Drew | ... | Maria (as Kyla-Drew Simmons) | |
An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a bank teller in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.
Jennifer Garner brought everything you could want from her role, unfortunately the writer and director didn't give her much of a movie. Garner 8 (Great), Writing/Directing - 5 (Meh). Garner gave us a depth between sensitivity and cold justice, proving to us once again that she is worthy of demanding action roles. The production, unfortunately, was flat and monotone, with lots of over the top situations but no substance, which lead to inevitable outcomes without any texture or meaning. It ended up with hype but no WOW. I give this film a 6 (fair) out of 10. One critic mused that it would have benefited from more women behind the camera to give it a more nuanced tone. I tend to think that a correct assessment, substituting a talented female lead for a male action hero does not make a convincing female action story. {Action}