'Peppermint' (2018) - Jennifer 'Yum' Garner
Garner is Riley North, whose husband and daughter are targeted and killed in a drive-by for no good reason (North recovers from her own injuries). Due to a corrupt judge and a lawyer in the pay of the drug cartel, the shooters get off scot free. North robs the bank where she works and uses the money to travel the world acquiring all sorts of deadly skills. After five years, she returns to Los Angeles and proceeds to kill all of those responsible.
As revenge flicks go, this one is pretty good. There seem to be fewer improbable scenarios than usual, and North manages to be a two-fisted female killing machine without the usual short-shorts and halter top outfit commonly seen on female vigilantes. Garner is believably fit for someone able to do what her character does (anyone remember stick figure Zoe Saldana in 'Columbiana'?) and manages to convey the sense of someone who knows what she's doing.
6/10
Boru
Garner is Riley North, whose husband and daughter are targeted and killed in a drive-by for no good reason (North recovers from her own injuries). Due to a corrupt judge and a lawyer in the pay of the drug cartel, the shooters get off scot free. North robs the bank where she works and uses the money to travel the world acquiring all sorts of deadly skills. After five years, she returns to Los Angeles and proceeds to kill all of those responsible.
As revenge flicks go, this one is pretty good. There seem to be fewer improbable scenarios than usual, and North manages to be a two-fisted female killing machine without the usual short-shorts and halter top outfit commonly seen on female vigilantes. Garner is believably fit for someone able to do what her character does (anyone remember stick figure Zoe Saldana in 'Columbiana'?) and manages to convey the sense of someone who knows what she's doing.
6/10
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson