After his daughter’s birthday doesn’t go according to plan, Riley decided to lift Carly’s spirts with a spontaneous trip to the Christmas Fair for an evening of fun and ice cream. Riley North (Jennifer Garner) is your typical women, trying to manage her work life at a struggling banker as well as trying to be a loving wife to her husband Chris (Jeff Hephner) and to her daughter Carly (Cailey Fleming).
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Does this movie find its entertainment action in amongst its revenge story or does it flounder underneath its own bland vigilante tale?
Now, STX films (and Lakeshore Entertainment) and director Pierre Morel present the latest iteration of vigilante / revenge action storyline with the film Peppermint. Movies like 2004’s Man on Fire, 2009’s Crime, 2009’s Taken, 2014’s John Wick, and 2018’s Death Wish are prime examples of this narrative arc of revenge, while other films like have weave in other filmmaking elements / genres into the mix with films like 1994’s The Crow, 1997’s Spawn, and 2006’s V for Vendetta. bread and butter) of the action movie genre, spinning a tale of action, shootouts, brawls, and (sometimes) a sort of “one-man” wrecking crew as the story’s main protagonist character, who’s fighting for loss and trying to “payback” an individual / group that took something (or someone) way for him. While this storyline premise / plot device has always been around and has done multiple other genres (drama, thriller, comedy, fantasy, etc.), it’s been a somewhat fan-favorite (i.e.
In the category of the action film genre, there exist a certain style of cinematic narrative that has been proven to work….
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