{"id":32310,"date":"2023-03-13T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32310"},"modified":"2023-03-13T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T22:47:49","slug":"the-raven-2012-starring-john-cusack-alice-eve-luke-evans-and-brendan-gleeson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32310","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Raven&#8221; (2012) starring John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans and Brendan Gleeson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z031423zview_raven2012.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Raven <\/strong><\/em>(2012)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>James McTeigue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>Ben Livingston, Hannah Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jimmy Yuill, Sam Hazeldine, Pam Ferris, Dave Legeno \u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Michael Shannon<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a serial killer uses methods from Edgar Allan Poe stories to dispatch his victims, Detective Fields (Evans) reluctantly turns to Poe (Cusak) for help.\u00a0 This only inspires the demented killer to up the ante by kidnapping Poe&#8217;s\u00a0 fianc\u00e9e and setting a timeline for her murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edgar Allan Poe may have been an insufferable alcoholic, but to make an insufferable alcoholic the sympathetic hero of a movie is a tall order.\u00a0 I did like how the ending aligns with real-life events in Poe&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luke Evans and Brendan Gleeson are welcome additions in any movie and they shine in <em>The Raven<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite scene is the night of the party when a masked rider (the killer?) enters the ballroom on horseback.<\/p>\n<p>Had the movie centered on Detective Fields a sequel would have been very cool since the final scenes seem to set it up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Raven (2012) <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z031423zview_raven2012b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raven (2012) Director:\u00a0 James McTeigue Writer: Ben Livingston, Hannah Shakespeare Stars: John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson,<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,51,72,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-history","category-horror","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\/32310","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=32310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32311,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32310\/revisions\/32311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}