Jennifer Garner takes a break from her Capital One gig to make a bid for action star. She plays a mom who goes after a drug cartel after they kill her husband and daughter. It’s a typical vigilante revenge scenario that lets her dispatch numerous bad guys with violent blows and copious gunfire. There’s nothing original in the writing or direction. Most of the encounters are just noisy. while her resilience is over-the-top unbelievable. Garner’s pretty tough, but this film pales to other recent efforts to cast a woman as a badass (Johansson in LUCY and GHOST IN THE SHELL or Theron on ATOMIC BLONDE). Liable to be quickly forgotten.
(2.5 / 5)