 Support for her. She's a multiple homicide suspect. Not to them, she's not. Out man, and now gone. How you anything's gonna go? And I don't pretty much wing it from there. So we have another revenge vigilante plot starring Jennifer Garner. Haven't we seen this a thousand times? My name is Brandon Keith Avery, and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Peppermint. I really do appreciate it. So when I remember I first saw the trailer for this movie, I was really excited. I am a big fan of revenge and vigilante plot and things like that. People going for justice and all that good stuff. So of course, you know, that's why Batman is one of my favorite characters. But also I was thinking to myself, okay, man, we've seen this a thousand times before. Is this gonna be any different? Are they gonna provide anything fresh for this audience, a different perspective that we've never seen before? And the film did exactly that. That is one of the things that I liked about it, the most part. Everything that I thought that I was gonna get in this film I did not get, I got kind of the exact opposite. Or what I thought I was gonna get but a completely different perspective. And so if you've seen the trailers, you know the plot of the story. Jennifer Garner is married and she has a child or she has a boyfriend and they have a child together and they're living their life. And her daughter and her boyfriend or husband, they do get executed gangster style. And she's trying to seek justice in the court system but because of corrupt cops and corrupt lawyers and corrupt judges and the complete corrupt legal system, you know, the bad guys go off for, they get off scot-free. She gets angry, she goes off, you know, disappears off the scene for like five years, trains come back to seek justice. Like I said, we've seen that so many times. Now, like I said, one of the great things about this film is it gives us a completely different perspective that we've never seen before. Another great thing about, I liked about this film, especially the first half is the way, the pacing of the film, just the way everything is edited. There is no fat on this film at all. I mean, it does not waste any time. Like, you know, sometimes when you're watching a movie and they're transitioning between scenes to where they'll show like the outside of a building and then like some big Y shot of the city and then the top of a building and then you go, no, it's just nothing like that. I mean, they're just kind of like boom, boom, boom, boom, perfectly lined, Domino's lined up just in a, you know, in a perfect symmetrical structure and it's just perfectly put together. I'm also a fan of the director. His name is Pierre Noel. And recent years he did take him, which I think came out in like 2008 and also from Paris with love. The cast is great too. Of course we have Jennifer Gardner. We also have John Ortiz, who I'm a fan of. He's been in a lot of stuff. You know, he's been in a ton of things. First thing that came to my mind was he was braga in the Fast and the Furious series that's currently going on right now. So the cast is great and also the performance just from Jennifer Gardner. I mean, they really did a great job of putting you in her shoes and letting you feel the same emotions that she felt on screen, just of frustration, anger and rage. I mean, I was like, oh my gosh, like I feel you, my sister, you know what I'm saying? I will be acting the same exact way you did. I mean, at the very first half of this movie, I would have said to myself, okay, this is up there. Right now, this is like a nine, 9.5. This is something that I'm definitely gonna be buying on Blu-ray when it comes out. Don't know about 4K, but I'm definitely gonna be buying it on Blu-ray. This could possibly be one of my, you know, in my top 10 favorite films of 2018. But then the second half of the film came and that's where things kind of was a step down. Now, I'm not saying that it was a dumpster fire train wreck, anything like that. The film just went straight to crap. No, but it was a step down. Just everything was not, it's kind of like, you know, the director, I know when someone is putting together a film, they don't shoot the scenes in a sequential order of the way they play out in the final product. No, I mean, the last scene in the movie, you know, could be the first thing they shot on day one, but it feels like, you know, the director had everything together and he was filming everything in order. Something happened to him and he had to step away and come back because I just was not feeling the same amount of energy that I was feeling in the second half of the film that I was feeling in the first half. Just some of the character, I mean, there's a five-year jump in time and maybe that has to do with it and it's playing with my mind, but just one of the characters, one of the cops that I was a fan of in the first half of the film, he just turned into just somebody that I didn't like and I didn't care for. Some of the action and the choreography and some of the gun battles and things like that, it just wasn't as tight as it was in the first half of the film. First half of the film, you know, Jennifer Garner seemed like she was some type of stealth ninja assassin. In the second half of the film, she just kind of seemed like a street brawler that ran out of breath often. I may be exaggerating just a little bit, but at the same time, I do feel that way. Also, just some of the things that she was able to accomplish, I kind of felt like it was just luck where in the first half of the film, it seemed like she really did her homework and just had everything down to the last, you know, millisecond. And also there was a character, there was an FBI agent. And I'm in the Dallas, Texas area. And, you know, it's nice to see that this young lady is, she was, you know, born and raised in a suburb around her too by the name of Annie Alonze. I've never heard of her before, but she has been an arrow, persons of interest. He's just not there to you, you know, black sister, you know, she looks good, but I just really was not feeling her performance, you know, on screen for the most part. And, you know, like the stuff that the film did not give us that I thought we were gonna get, I still wanted that, you know, at the end, I was still just kind of wanting a little bit more. I do appreciate the different perspective that was given to me, you know, as an audience member, as a fan of this type of material. But sometimes the good old formula if it ain't broke, don't fix it, can still work. While what, for the most part, things did work here, I just kind of wish the director would have stuck to the basics. Still enjoyed the film though, because if I were to rate it out of a one out of 10, I would give Peppermint easily a 7.5 out of 10. Yes, a 7.5 out of 10. But guys, I said all that, but in the end that is just my opinion. What did you think of Peppermint? Or do you want to see it? Have I turned you off? Have I turned you on? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you liked this video, go ahead and give me a thumbs up. And if you don't, that's fine. But you can still subscribe to my channel. 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