Reacher’s author, Lee Child, gives his hero copious backstory. But successful as a blow-em-up thriller: for one thing, the weakly sketched plot tends to resonate with all of us (underdog wins justice is served), and even with a sort of cheap version of feminism (Jennifer Garner has muscles and beats the men). Jennifer Garner’s husband and daughter are killed in front of her she disappears for five years, trains to become a badass, a vigilante, and comes back to take her own justice against those who wronged her as well as other wrongdoers in the community. I’m thinking of Kill Bill here, and how it showed Uma Thurman’s character gaining her skills: that’s an important part of the story, movie people! To put it another way: the plot of this movie is easily summed up in the single sentence I wrote above. The actual becoming – a critical piece of growth, and that which makes this movie – takes place all off-screen. A single line of dialog by (if memory serves) an FBI agent describes her training in foreign countries, but it’s a very brief line. We don’t get to see any of her training to become the badass that we see onscreen. She loved her husband and child – we can easily trust this, but that’s pretty much all of her personality that we know, and it’s not much of a personality it’s something most people with spouses and children carry, in fact. As pure adrenaline-excitement-thriller, this one satisfies. The fight scenes and blow-em-up scenes are exciting, and I didn’t notice anybody firing forty-seven shots out of a magazine that holds twelve rounds (as is so common on my beloved show The Walking Dead). On the plus side: Jennifer Garner is ripped and she is beautiful and I like her. In this one, Jennifer Garner’s husband and daughter are killed in front of her she disappears for five years, trains to become a badass, a vigilante, and comes back to take her own justice against those who wronged her as well as other wrongdoers in the community. She becomes a vigilante, taking her own justice against those who wronged her as well as other wrongdoers in the community. That 2007 movie starred Jodie Foster as a woman recovered from a coma to find that her fiancé had been killed in the same attack that left her hospitalized. The plot of Peppermint reminded me of The Brave One. John.My date for this movie called its hero a female Jack Reacher. Peppermint was written by London Has Fallen screenwriter Chad St. ( 10 Cloverfield Lane), Method Man ( Keanu), Richard Cabral ( Lethal Weapon) and Tyson Ritter ( Preacher). The film is directed by Pierre Morel, well known for his work in the action genre with the hits Taken and District 13, and will also star John Ortiz ( Kong: Skull Island), John Gallagher, Jr. Channeling her frustration into personal motivation, she spends years in hiding honing her mind, body and spirit to become an unstoppable force – eluding the underworld, the LAPD and the FBI- as she methodically delivers her personal brand of justice. When the system frustratingly shields the murderers from justice, Riley sets out to transform herself from citizen to urban guerilla. Peppermint tells the story of young mother Riley North (Garner, Alias) who awakens from a coma after her husband and daughter are killed in a brutal attack on the family. RELATED: Jennifer Garner Set to Star in Lena Dunham’s New HBO Show Camping Check it out in the gallery below and look here for the first full trailer for the film tomorrow! STXfilms has released the first poster for Peppermint, the brand new Jennifer Garner-led action-thriller.
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