“Jennifer Garner has a very particular set of skills. Skills she had already acquired at the start of her long acting career.
“Skills that, with a few noble exceptions, Hollywood has had a nightmare of a time trying to properly showcase.
“In the vigilante film “Peppermint,” “Taken” director Pierre Morel finally looks to exploit one of Garner’s defining skillsets that has long gone untapped, giving this effortlessly empathetic yet deceptively steely actress her first chance to play a kick-ass action star since the deservedly beloved “Alias” and the deservedly forgotten “Elektra.”
“As a onetime Girl Scout den mother turned brass-knuckled avenging angel, Garner gives everything that is asked of her, from brute physicality to dewy-eyed tenderness, but this half-witted calamity botches just about everything else.”
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