02-17-2019, 10:40 AM
Alias was a great TV show, at least it was for the first few seasons until overspent its welcome. Jennifer was astonishingly good as a grad student turned super-spy and it had a young Bradley Cooper, who Stacy spotted early and said was going to go places (I dismissed him - shows you what I knew). Jennifer has dabbled in some action since, including that horrid take on Elektra, but mostly she went to cutesy films and ads. Peppermint is her return to action.
It's bad. A typical revenge tale. A soccer-mom loses her husband and daughter to a Mexican drug gang, trains secretly for 5 years, then walks the road of vengeance. The other characters are so hackneyed, the police mole, the sadistic jefe, the cholo gangsters, the good cop, the innocent bystanders - so predictable. Jennifer is good tho. She still sells action surprisingly well, both in her gunplay and her hand-to-hand. And she delivers some classic vigilante quips that work. Given the proper vehicle - like an Alias reboot - she could do well as an action star. She's much better at it than those cutesy roles. The problem is that despite Alias, filmmakers she her as cute and cannot conceive of a cute spy anymore.
It's bad. A typical revenge tale. A soccer-mom loses her husband and daughter to a Mexican drug gang, trains secretly for 5 years, then walks the road of vengeance. The other characters are so hackneyed, the police mole, the sadistic jefe, the cholo gangsters, the good cop, the innocent bystanders - so predictable. Jennifer is good tho. She still sells action surprisingly well, both in her gunplay and her hand-to-hand. And she delivers some classic vigilante quips that work. Given the proper vehicle - like an Alias reboot - she could do well as an action star. She's much better at it than those cutesy roles. The problem is that despite Alias, filmmakers she her as cute and cannot conceive of a cute spy anymore.
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