(DVD Peppermint)
This 2018 film stars Jennifer Garner and is a hard-core hard-bitten action thriller. Garner stars as Riley North, a young woman whose husband and daughter are gunned down by members of a street gang. Even though she is able to identify the killers, her testimony is not taken seriously during the trial, the killers go free, and she herself is labeled a dangerous psychotic. Riley manages to escape from medical personnel and goes underground. A few years later, having trained with some of the best physical and mental trainers she could find, she returns to her old city and starts to take violent revenge on those who wronged her: corrupt judges, lawyers, gang-bangers, etc.
As Riley works her way up the ranks
of organization led by the drug lord who was ultimately responsible for the
death of her family, both the bad guys and the good guys are out to find and
stop her.
This is “revenge porn” — with a
mercenary taking out the people who wronged her, in increasingly violent ways.
But Garner still pulls off a completely sympathetic character. She also proves
that at age 46 (13 years after her action-espionage series Alias ended) she
still has massive “action film” chops and is wholly believable as this avenging
angel.
(If you enjoy this, you may also
wish to try Garner’s TV series, Alias, which ran for five seasons in 2001-2005.)
( Internet Movie
Database entry for this 2018 film )
See
Scott C.’s review of the first season of the TV series Alias, in the July 2009 Staff Recommendations here
on BookGuide!
Recommended
by Scott
C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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