![]() Garner plays Riley North, a harried mother whose cash-strapped husband and precocious tween daughter are gunned down by Mexican drug-runners. The execution, which took place in a Zahedan jail in Sistan-Baluchestan, came a day after Baluch militants attacked a police station in the province, killing 11 security personnel and wounding several others.Peppermint is, in its own way, a perfect confluence of the two halves of Garner's career. Iran executes agent of Israel's Mossad intelligence service India and the Sultanate of Oman are strategic partners and the bilateral trade and investment relationship between the two nations has been on an upswing in the last few years PM Modi holds talks with Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, bilateral trade and investment on agenda Azar will replace Naor Gilon, who has been serving as the Israeli ambassador to India since 2021. ![]() It is not yet known when he will take charge in New Delhi. Reuven Azar appointed as Israel's new Ambassador to IndiaĪzar is currently serving as the Ambassador of Israel to Romania. His positions brought him close to power but never in it. ![]() Wilders, long a firebrand who lashed out at Islam, the EU and migrants, was in the past labelled a Dutch version of Donald Trump. 'Will support Hindus who are attacked, threatened or prosecuted in Bangladesh, Pakistan': Dutch politician Geert Wilders We’ve had enough Taken movies for one lifetime, and if you’re really in the mood for a revenge thriller check out Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy instead and watch your brain melt. She was wonderful in Love Simon earlier this year, primarily because her role was so well written despite being just a cameo. Then there’s the issue of performance – Garner once again channels her Elektra which was bad enough to begin with so the reminder only works as a deterrent. Riley taking pleasure in torturing villains before ultimately killing them has a nasty, out of place odour, and is even more problematic because these scenes expect you to cheer at them. Look, we’re all for over the top violence and pulp, but the film has to establish the rules for said violence to exist – you cannot pretend to be highbrow when the content you’re offering is dregs from the very bottom of the barrel. The portrayal of a fractured justice system is an area where the film could actually have scored some points – given all the Kavanaugh drama that’s happening in America, but the execution reminds one of a Kanti Shah film where the lascivious villains wrong the doyen of goodness that is the protagonist – even Khoon Bhari Maang had a more nuanced and less shrill approach to a vigilante thriller than this film. Wonka movie review: Timothee Chalamet starrer is a fun, enjoyable & chocolaty affair Netflix’s Leave the World Behind Movie Review: Julia Roberts & Mahershala Ali apocalyptic thriller lacks soul The resulting violence, therefore, seems unearned, slapped onto the screen for cheap entertainment when the motivation of the protagonist is not to entertain people watching her. It all feels artificial – the performances of the bad guys hamming their way into every scene, the way they are shot, the way Riley reacts to their threats has a layer of amateurishness seen in the Sharknado films, except everyone is being deadly serious here. The portrayal of ‘cartels’ and how they’re scary seems slapped together by a bunch of kids who’ve recently binged on Fox News. This is also a story that seems to have been made by a group of entitled white men terrified of Latinos. The first problem with Peppermint is that it is plain idiotic – the lapses in logic range from weird to unintentionally hilarious as Riley’s journey takes her closer to the final boss in the video game of a plot that it ultimately is. As she picks up guns and bombs and ropes to hang the baddies on Ferris wheels, we’re taken through a theme park ride of vigilante clichés, emotional manipulation and over-the-top music that is employed to ‘enhance’ the drama. This is of course the female riff on Taken – Jennifer Garner, in this case, plays Riley North who uses her particular set of skills to track down bad guys who did bad things to her family. So it comes as a surprise that Peppermint has neither the unique stylistic action of the former nor the no-nonsense violence of the latter. Oddly, the film is directed by Pierre Morell, who earlier made the very entertaining District 13 and the original Taken.
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