{"id":12071,"date":"2015-03-05T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2021-03-21T21:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:48:26","slug":"z-view-the-prince-mercy-is-for-the-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12071","title":{"rendered":"Z-View:  &#8220;The Prince&#8221; &#8211; Mercy is for the Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z030515zview_prince_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Pitch:\u00a0 <\/strong>&#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s do a riff on &#8216;Taken&#8217; with Bruce Willis!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you nuts?\u00a0 We can&#8217;t afford Bruce Willis.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Sure we can if we don&#8217;t make him the star.\u00a0 We put him in a scene or two at the start and end of the movie.\u00a0 Glorified cameo, but list him first in the credits and put him first and biggest on the poster!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Let&#8217;s do it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tagline:<\/strong> &#8220;Mercy is for the weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Overview:<\/strong> When an auto mechanic&#8217;s [Jason Patrick] daughter gets caught up with bad men, the mechanic goes to get her.\u00a0 Oh, and get this, the auto mechanic was once the most feared hit man in the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Way back in <strong>2008<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>when I first read the synopsis<\/strong><\/a> of <em><strong>The Prince<\/strong> <\/em>and <strong>John Carpenter<\/strong> was trying to get it off the ground, I was excited.\u00a0 Sadly it didn&#8217;t pan out with <strong>Carpenter<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has a classic set-up: dad goes to rescue daughter and isn&#8217;t who\/what he seems.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I enjoyed the scene in the bar where a guy starts to crack wise with <strong>Jason Patrick<\/strong> and the guy&#8217;s uncle comes over to set his nephew straight because he recognized <strong>Patrick<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Patrick&#8217;s<\/strong> response as to why he didn&#8217;t kill the uncle years ago is also good.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When the star of the movie is the smallest star featured on the movie poster.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of everyone trying to shoot <strong>Jason Patrick<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two guys below featured prominently on the poster have glorified cameos.\u00a0 Same for <strong>50 Cent<\/strong> and<strong> John Cusack<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z030515zview_prince_pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:\u00a0 2 of 5 stars<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch:\u00a0 &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s do a riff on &#8216;Taken&#8217; 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