Bad timing can kill a movie that has everything going for it, but the problem with Peppermint isn't so much bad timing as tone deafness on an egregious scale.

Peppermint is jaw-droppingly ugly, horrendously violent, implicitly racist and routinely handled.

From a broader perspective, the film marks an intriguing new stage in Hollywood's ongoing effort to figure out what action movies about women (and aimed at them) should look like.

I really like the weightiness that [Jennifer Garner] brought to the material.