{"id":30037,"date":"2022-06-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30037"},"modified":"2022-06-17T17:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T21:31:18","slug":"30037","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30037","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Forsaken&#8221;\u00a0(2015) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z062322zview_forsaken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Forsaken<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2015)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jon Cassar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Brad Mirman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Michael Wincott, Brian Cox <\/strong>and <strong>Demi Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Haunted by his past, searching for peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the Civil War, John Henry Clayton (K. Sutherland) was a fearless fighter.\u00a0 After the war, Clayton&#8217;s reputation as deadly gunman grew as he drifted from town to town.\u00a0 After nearly a decade away, Clayton is ready to put down his guns and return home. He wants to make amends with his father, his mother and Mary Alice (Moore), the woman he loved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clayton learns that his mother has died. His Preacher father (D. Sutherland) is bitter at what John Henry became, and Mary Alice married and has a son. Clayton buries his guns and begins clearing a plot of land his mother wanted for crops.\u00a0 In town, James McCurdy (Cox) has hired Dave Turner (Wincott) a infamous gunfighter and thugs to force local landowners to sell out to him.\u00a0 If they won&#8217;t sell, they end up dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clayton keeps his head down and stays out of the fray even when some of the thugs try to goad him into a gunfight.\u00a0 Turner knows that Clayton is more than a match for any of them and may even be as good with a gun as he is.\u00a0 He warns them that, &#8220;you keep kicking a dog and he&#8217;ll eventually bite.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0Turner is right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Forsaken<\/em> is a much better film than I thought it would be.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why I under-estimated it.\u00a0 <em>Forsaken<\/em> features an excellent cast with Kiefer and Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox,\u00a0 Michael Wincott and Demi Moore.\u00a0 Kiefer has an emotional scene with his father that will bring a tear to the driest eye.\u00a0 Brian Cox is perfect as the rich wannabe land baron who feels entitled to things because he can take them.\u00a0 Michael Wincott steals every scene he&#8217;s in.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to see more of his character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jon Cassar directed several episodes of <em>24.<\/em> He and Kiefer planned at some point to do a western together.\u00a0 Kiefer commissioned Brad Mirman to write the screenplay and he came up with a winner.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to see them re-team for a sequel (and bring back Michael Wincott)!\u00a0 <em>Forsaken<\/em> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.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\/z062322zview_forsaken2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forsaken\u00a0(2015) Director:\u00a0 Jon Cassar Screenplay by: \u00a0Brad Mirman Starring:\u00a0 Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Michael Wincott, Brian Cox and Demi Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037","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=30037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30048,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037\/revisions\/30048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}