With Peppermint's resurgence on Netflix, Garner - who's no stranger to the action genre, having played CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the spy-action thriller series Alias and Marvel assassin Elektra in both Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005) - is proving that audiences will happily watch her kick butt any day of the week. Peppermint scored a 12 percent on Rotten Tomatoes among registered critics, but holds steady among everyday viewers, with an audience score of 71 percent. Additionally, Peppermint was a financial success, making more money than it cost by landing a worldwide box-office gross of $53.9 million. Taken director Pierre Morel also helmed Peppermint, and it seems that - similar to their reaction to his mega-hit Liam Neeson franchise - general audiences sometimes have different opinions than critics do. It seems he wasn't wrong on the last part, given Peppermint's current Netflix success. For instance, The New Yorker's film critic Richard Brody wrote that Peppermint is a "racist film that reflects the current strain of anti-immigrant politics and its paranoid focus on MS-13." He went on to write that it "leaves the feeling that it would be better for the world at large if this movie hadn't been made." Meanwhile, over on Forbes, critic Scott Mendelson argued that, "Ironically, the film's muddy visuals makes it look less like a glossy Hollywood flick and more like a straight-to-VOD action movie, the kind of which are currently doing quite well by Netflix." Scott Marks of the San Diego Reader openly speculated that Garner must have only done it for the money, wondering why else "would she agree to lend her name to what is essentially gun porn?" Other critics panned the film for perpetuating racist rhetoric. Upon its release, Peppermint was panned by critics for its violence. Sounds like an epic movie, right? Well, not to everyone. Widowed wife avenges the murder of her family.
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