Peppermint
STX Entertainment | Release Date: September 7, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
10
Negative:
15
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67
IGNWilliam BibbianiSep 6, 2018
Whether you find it exciting or troubling might vary from person to person, but either way Jennifer Garner delivers a standout performance that demands recognition, and will hopefully lead to better action movie roles for the actor in the future. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSep 6, 2018
Peppermint lacks subtlety and anything even remotely resembling credibility, but like its heroine, it certainly gets the job done. It's the sort of picture that would have been boffo on a grindhouse double bill in the '70s. Read full review
58
IndieWireJude DrySep 6, 2018
The new action flick Peppermint is a rare return to form for Garner, who doles out her vigilante justice with effortless charm. Unfortunately, that’s about the only reason to see Peppermint. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSep 6, 2018
Through a stellar effort by Jennifer Garner and some well-executed revenge sequences, Peppermint just feels good to watch. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 6, 2018
Peppermint isn’t preaching a message; it’s intended as escapist fun. The problem is, there’s nothing “fun” about sitting through this 100-minute exercise in robotic butchery. Read full review
50
The Associated PressLindsey BahrSep 6, 2018
Peppermint is not some model of equality, it’s just violent escapism that happens to have a woman in the lead role. And, frankly, as long as this genre continues to entertain audiences, Garner is a compelling a lead as any, and more so than quite a few of the men who get so many parts like this. But maybe, just maybe, next time consider a woman or two behind the camera (and script) as well. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 6, 2018
In the stylishly directed but gratuitously nasty and cliché-riddled Peppermint, Garner plays essentially two characters cut from the same person. Read full review
45
TheWrapTodd GilchristSep 6, 2018
Peppermint ultimately possesses the stale predictability of an unwrapped candy discovered at the bottom of a purse. Read full review
42
The PlaylistWill AshtonSep 15, 2018
Maybe someday, Jennifer Garner will be given a project that proves her talents once again. For now, though, we’re left with Peppermint: a wretched action misfire that leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubAllison ShoemakerSep 6, 2018
It’s a shame, because Garner’s herculean efforts throw the film’s sloppiness into even sharper relief. Like Keanu Reeves, Garner has a gift for making every kick, punch, bullet, and desk dropped on someone’s head feel like a spontaneous decision. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMatthew MonagleSep 6, 2018
The last thing Peppermint could afford to be was a mediocre action movie, and yet, here we are, and here it is. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 6, 2018
I enjoyed watching Garner get back to her “Alias” chops, cuts, slices, shots and head-butts. The editing makes you think she could do this stuff, and her reactions to pain — emotional and ammunitional, is genuine. But it’s a silly slaughterhouse of a movie. Read full review
38
Film Journal InternationalMaitland McDonaghSep 6, 2018
Peppermint is a bloody crowd-pleaser, but it’s fundamentally forgettable, the kind of movie whose details begin to disappear the moment the credits roll. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshSep 6, 2018
While it's fun to watch Garner return to her action roots, the brute force haymaker that is Peppermint is a far cry from the sophisticated thrills of "Alias." Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyDana SchwartzSep 7, 2018
All of us, but especially Jennifer Garner, deserve better. Read full review
30
VarietyAndrew BarkerSep 6, 2018
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. Drably by-the-numbers except for the moments where it goes gobsmackingly off-the-rails, Peppermint misfires from start to finish. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsSep 7, 2018
There's a morbidly hilarious dark comedy buried not-so-deep inside the lousy revenge thriller Peppermint. It's just probably not the movie that director Pierre Morel ("Taken," "District B13") and screenwriter Chad St. John intended to make. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineHenry StewartSep 6, 2018
Pierre Morel's first feature film set in the United States is brainless propaganda for the MAGA market. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 6, 2018
Garner bulls her way through the film with determination and a minimum of facial expressions, like someone who’s been told to clean up something awful and just wants to get it over with. So what if Charlize Theron did it better in “Atomic Blonde,” last year’s female-led brawler that is in every conceivable way superior to Peppermint? Read full review
25
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerSep 6, 2018
If Peppermint has one thing going for it, and it’s by and large the only one, it’s Garner. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaSep 8, 2018
Peppermint has no surprises up its sleeve, and casting Jennifer Garner as the put-upon housewife turned gun-toting vigilante doesn’t change that. If anything, changing one element of the formula does more to expose its dullness than the same movie starring Liam Neeson. Read full review
20
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 6, 2018
Even if male stars from Neeson to Bruce Willis have been riding the same gravy train for decades, Garner has the talent to make us expect more. She needed support from the filmmakers. But what did she get? A lazy facsimile of the revenge movie she so richly deserved. There’s no reason audiences should accept it. Read full review
20
The New York TimesAisha HarrisSep 6, 2018
Peppermint is a belabored exercise in lazily constructed déjà vu, without the grit or stylized ham of predecessors it so baldly steals from. Read full review
20
Time OutMichael GingoldSep 6, 2018
The only thing Peppermint does accomplish, after Proud Mary, Traffik and Breaking In, is to cement 2018 as the year Hollywood proved itself incapable of turning out a decent female-led action film. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 6, 2018
A laughably bad melange of blood, guts and racial stereotypes. Read full review
10
Film ThreatBrian ThompsonSep 8, 2018
A failure on virtually every level, Peppermint is a slapdash, half-hearted affront to anyone unfortunate enough to get caught in its crosshairs. Read full review
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