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The Mother <\/em><\/strong>(2023)<\/span><\/p>\n Director: Niki Caro<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Misha Green, Andrea Berloff, Peter Craig <\/strong>from a story by Misha Green[1]<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Jennifer Lopez<\/strong>, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Joseph Fiennes, Jesse Garcia, Yvonne Senat Jones, Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal <\/strong>and Edie Falco<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>None.<\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “The Mother” (Lopez) is an unnamed ex-military, soldier brokering an arms deal between two of her former lovers, ex-SAS Captain Adrian Lovell (Fiennes) and arms dealer Hector \u00c1lvarez (Bernal).\u00a0 When she discovers that they are both also involved in child trafficking, she turns FBI informant.<\/p>\n While “The Mother” is at a safe house being interrogated, and nearly ready to give birth, the safe house is attacked.\u00a0 All of the FBI agents except, William Cruise (Hardwick) are murdered.\u00a0 Cruise is badly wounded, but saved by “The Mother”, who is also wounded and nearly loses her baby.\u00a0 Realizing she is a marked woman and her child would always be in danger, “The Mother” agrees to put the baby up for adoption with three conditions: Cruise agrees. The child is adopted and named Zoe (Paez). “The Mother” moves to Alaska to live off the grid.<\/p>\n Twelve years later Cruise contacts “The Mother”.\u00a0 Zoe who is in grave danger.\u00a0 \u00c1lvarez has learned where she is and is planning to kidnap her.\u00a0 Together Cruise and “The Mother” move to save Zoe, but will they be too late?<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Jennifer Lopez is more than capable to play an action hero.\u00a0 Unfortunately, The Mother<\/em> is content to coast.\u00a0 The story hits all the marks you’d expect.\u00a0 It feels like moviemaking by numbers.\u00a0 There are no surprises. It does have enough star power and action to hold our attention.\u00a0 Unfortunately except for Lopez, the stars are under-used.\u00a0 I’d have loved to have seen Omari Hardwick and Edie Falco given more to do.<\/p>\n While “The Mother” is an okay way to spend a couple of hours, Jennifer Lopez and her co-stars deserved better.\u00a0 So did the audience.<\/p>\n The Mother <\/em><\/strong>(2023) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n The Mother (2023) Director: Niki Caro Screenplay: Misha Green, Andrea Berloff, Peter Craig from a story by Misha Green[1] Stars:<\/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-33766","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\/33766","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=33766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33768,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33766\/revisions\/33768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.\u00a0 The baby will be put in a good, safe home
\n2.\u00a0 Cruise will send her a birthday photo every year
\n3.\u00a0 Cruise will let her know if the child is ever in danger<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\")
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