By Lily Forster – Staff Reporter

The story of “Peppermint” revolves around Riley North, played by Jennifer Garner, a grieving mom who loses her daughter and husband in a gang-related shooting and goes on a campaign of targeted revenge. The title “Peppermint” refers to the flavor of ice-cream that her daughter was eating when she was murdered.

Five years after Riley North’s husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, Riley comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free. According to the actress herself, the movie “Peppermint” is entirely fictional. This action/thriller movie is absolutely incredible.

This movie has an amazing plot and the amount of revenge that went on throughout the entire movie was outstanding. The choice of Jennifer Garner as the lead role in this movie was an amazing choice because of the other acting roles she has been in. No one had ever expected her to do something like this movie and people are so surprised on how she absolutely killed it. The acting in this movie was incredible within each major character.  

This storyline is chilling and emotional at first but then it gets quite crazy. A major strength is that viewers get so interested, they just want to keep watching to see what happens. This movie is the type that can just be watched and is easy to understand and go along with without brain power. It is simply just an entertaining movie and there were lots of twists and turns that keep viewers interested and wanting to know what’s going to happen next. But the biggest strength of the movie was 100% the ending…viewers will have to watch it to find out!

This movie did have a lot of visuals though. There was a decent amount of blood shown throughout this movie because there was quite a lot of violence. So if those types of visuals affect you: warning, there are some points where it’s pretty intense. But besides that and as a result, there aren’t too many crazy scenes.  

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars