{"id":29917,"date":"2022-06-10T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29917"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:07:05","slug":"the-old-guard-2020-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29917","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Old Guard&#8221; (2020) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z061022zview_oldguard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Old Guard <\/strong><\/em>(2020)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Gina Prince-Bythewood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Greg Rucka <\/strong>based on <em>The Old Guard<\/em> comic series by <strong>Greg Rucka<\/strong> and <strong>Leandro Fernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Chiwetel Ejiofor\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Harry Melling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: Forever is Harder Than It Looks<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andy (Theron) leads a team of centuries-old near-immortals who take on missions to improve the world.\u00a0 When Steven Merrick (Melling), a drug company executive learns of the near-immortals, he puts together a group of mercenaries to capture Andy&#8217;s team.\u00a0 Merrick plans to experiment on the near-immortals to discover their secrets to longevity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was expecting more from <em>The Old Guard<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a long time fan of Greg Rucka&#8217;s writing (both novels and comics).\u00a0 For some reason the story\/dialogue just didn&#8217;t resonate with me.\u00a0 The action scenes were good.\u00a0 There&#8217;s one horrifying thing that happens to one of the near-immortals that will stay with you.\u00a0 Other than that <em>The Old Guard<\/em> played out like a good, but not great action flick.\u00a0 <em>The Old Guard<\/em> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z061022zview_oldguard2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Guard (2020) Director:\u00a0 Gina Prince-Bythewood Screenplay:\u00a0 \u00a0Greg Rucka based on The Old Guard comic series by Greg Rucka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29954,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions\/29954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}