{"id":34259,"date":"2023-10-22T07:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34259"},"modified":"2023-10-22T07:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:26:06","slug":"they-cloned-tyrone-2023-starring-john-boyega-jamie-foxx-teyonah-parris-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34259","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They Cloned Tyrone&#8221; (2023) starring John Boyega, Jamie Foxx &#038; Teyonah Parris \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z102223zview_theyclonedtyrone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"701\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">They Cloned Tyrone <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(2023)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Juel Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenwriter: <strong>Tony Rettenmaier, Juel Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cast: <strong>John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer Sutherland <\/strong>and <strong>David Alan Grier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Damn&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fontaine (Boyega) is a small time drug dealer.\u00a0 When he goes to collect money from a pimp known as Slick Charles (Foxx), Fontaine is ambushed.\u00a0 He&#8217;s shot several times and left for dead. Slick Charles and one of his girls, Yo-Yo are shocked to witness the murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are even more amazed the next day.\u00a0 Fontaine comes back to collect the debt.\u00a0 He has no recollection of being shot.\u00a0 He has no wounds.\u00a0 As Slick Charles and Yo-Yo discuss what they saw, some memories come back to Fontaine.\u00a0 The three end up following clues that lead them to discover a widespread government conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fontaine, Slick Charles and Yo-Yo have to figure out a way to quickly expose the powerful cabal behind the conspiracy, If they can&#8217;t, well&#8230; we all know what happens to people who discover the truth behind big time deceptions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the second film I&#8217;ve seen with John Boyega. He was excellent in <em>The Woman King<\/em> and is even better here.\u00a0 Jamie Foxx is always good.\u00a0 I loved seeing Keifer Sutherland and David Allan Grier pop up in supporting roles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My simple description of <em>They Cloned Tyrone<\/em> is cross <em>Three the Hard Way<\/em> with <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em> minus the aliens. Add a touch of humor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I liked <em>They Cloned Tyrone<\/em> but think it could have gotten to the conspiracy a bit faster.\u00a0 I also wish that they had leaned into the humor a bit more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot of the film reminded me of a 70s blaxploitation movie.\u00a0 I thought that maybe the film should have been set in that time period.\u00a0 Another thought then occurred, perhaps the folks behind the film wanted us to see the situation as though it takes place now because the issues are still relevant.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">They Cloned Tyrone <\/em><\/strong>(2023) <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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\/2023\/z102223zview_theyclonedtyrone2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They Cloned Tyrone (2023) Director: Juel Taylor Screenwriter: Tony Rettenmaier, Juel Taylor Cast: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer<\/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":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","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\/34259","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=34259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34260,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34259\/revisions\/34260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}