Everyone is well within their rights to enjoy movies that don’t hold the strongest of reputations in the eyes of either critics or the general public, but attempting to elevate something as terrible as 2018’s revenge-fueled actioner Peppermint onto the same pedestal as the classics is nothing short of madness.
Sure enough, a Reddit thread boldly proclaiming that Jennifer Garner’s Riley North deserved to be spoken about in the same revered tones as Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley and Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor drew exactly the response you’d expect when a film that drew a 13 percent Rotten Tomatoes score and landed its star a nomination for Worst Actress at the Razzies is pushed into the conversation alongside the iconic female figureheads of the Alien and Terminator franchises.