Peppermint

Bad timing can kill a movie that has everything going for it, but the problem with Peppermint isn't so much bad timing as tone deafness on an egregious scale.

Peppermint is jaw-droppingly ugly, horrendously violent, implicitly racist and routinely handled.

From a broader perspective, the film marks an intriguing new stage in Hollywood's ongoing effort to figure out what action movies about women (and aimed at them) should look like.

There must not have been enough zeros on the alimony check; why else would Garner agree to lend her name to what is essentially gun porn?

There isn't anything that special to it. It doesn't rise above anything...disappointing despite a really strong performance from Jennifer Garner.

Peppermint seems to be an action movie two decades too late. Surely, Garner deserves better than this.

I really like the weightiness that [Jennifer Garner] brought to the material.

I cannot, in good conscious, recommend that anyone go see and support this movie.

John Ortiz caps off the action with one of the silliest speeches in action movie history. And that bar is pretty high.

The movie's feints toward "fun" are awkward, and Morel's lack of interest in even the most basic details feels downright contemptuous.