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Created Dec 25, 2018 05:00AM PST • Edited Dec 28, 2018 01:11AM PST

1. Quality

2. 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.

4. 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.

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

   Jennifer Garner

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Good 3.0

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play OK 2.5

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.3

17. Sex Innocent 1.0

18. Violence Brutal 3.4

19. Rudeness Salty 2.5

21. Reality

    Surreal 2.3

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.4

23. Biological Surreal 2.6

24. Physical Glib 1.9