Movie review
September 6, 2018 · 102 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
A mother loses her family to a drug cartel drive-by and the corrupt justice system that lets the killers walk. She trains for five years and returns as a vigilante to kill the cartel and the officials who protected them. The entire narrative sticks to personal revenge and vigilante justice with no identity politics, activist sermons, or representation messaging. No girlboss lectures or modern social justice framing appear at any point.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Peppermint.
Woke representation / casting
female lead executes vigilante action dominance
Woke political dialogue
no activist or political dialogue
Identity-driven story themes
mother revenge vigilante story
Western institutional / cultural critique
no modern activist framing of systemic identity issues
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Production
no backlash claiming too woke or forced identity politics
Creator track record context
no relevant prior work cited
