Like
most of you, I first discovered Jennifer Garner in her role as the “kicks ass and looks good while doing
it” superspy Sydney Bristow in J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi/espionage TV series
‘Alias,’ which ran for five seasons from 2001-2006. And perhaps like many of you, I was
immediately captivated and “fell in love” with this gorgeous femme fatale who’s
so good at doing what she does without sacrificing an ounce of sex appeal and
feminine vulnerability. While ‘Alias’
obviously owed its origins to ‘La Femme Nikita,’ it was so much better in so
many ways.
After
Garner married some guy named Affleck and ditched action for rom-coms and Capital One commercials, I did not expect her to ever go back. So imagine my surprise when I saw that her
latest offering is a little movie called ‘Peppermint,’ the latest
garden-variety, female-driven revenge flick in the tried-and-true tradition of ‘Colombiana,’
‘The Brave One’ and ‘Kill Bill’ Volumes 1 & 2. The story of a loving wife and mother driven
on a single-minded mission to make the bastards pay for what they did to her
and her family (or something similar) is a timeless one that never gets old and
satisfies our deepest urges for vigilante justice.
As
its 11 percent Rotten Tomatoes score would attest, ‘Peppermint’ isn’t a great
movie by any objective measure (or even a particularly good one for that
matter), but that’s really beside the point.
Jennifer Garner always looked good kicking butt in ‘Alias,’ regardless
of what she’s wearing or what color wig she puts on. 12 years later nothing has changed. While Garner looks dirty and grungy for the
most part living in a beat-up van down by the river, ahem, among the forgotten homeless in ‘Peppermint,’ she’ll forever be Sydney in my heart.
Grade: B
Grade: B
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