Vanishing from her old life - from any activity that could identify her to authorities - Riley conspires to exact her own brand of justice, even as police detectives Stan Carmichael (John Gallagher Jr.) and Moises Beltran (John Ortiz) are reluctant to pin a series of brutal murders on a grieving housewife. Watch Video: Jennifer Garner Tries to Outdo 'American Pie' With Her Own 'One Time at Band Camp' Story Furious at the inactivity and indifference of a legal system unwilling to prosecute the men responsible, Riley targets not only the criminals but also the attorneys and judges whose delinquency enabled the killers to go free. Garner plays Riley North, a vigilante carving a path of destruction across southern California motivated by the deaths of her husband Chris (Jeff Hephner, NBC’s “Chicago Med”) and Carly (Cailey Fleming, Young Rey in “The Force Awakens”) five years earlier at the hands of drug lord Diego Garcia (Juan Pablo Raba, “Narcos”). But a script that seems to have been assembled by algorithm, plus routine direction by “Taken” helmer Pierre Morel, hobbles what might have been a moderately rousing (if in no way original) transformation story. The formidable Jennifer Garner has already shouldered her fair share of badass characters, so the toughness required of her character here is entirely believable. But “Peppermint” is in such a hurry to deliver the payoff of watching an aggrieved mother exact her revenge on the drug lord who killed her husband and daughter that it completely ignores the much bigger and more interesting story of exactly how she prepared for that showdown. Since 1974, there have been dozens of riffs on “Death Wish” featuring men driven to violent acts of vengeance (including a tepid remake earlier this year), so there’s no reason there shouldn’t be one about a woman.
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