{"id":36326,"date":"2024-08-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36326"},"modified":"2024-07-31T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T00:44:46","slug":"child-44-2015-starring-tom-hardy-gary-oldman-noomi-rapace-joel-kinnaman-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36326","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Child 44&#8221; (2015) starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace &amp; Joel Kinnaman \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z080124zview_child44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"743\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Child 44 (2015)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Daniel Espinosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Richard Price,<\/strong> based on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LPKGTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> CHILD 44 <\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by<strong> Tom Rob Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Mark Lewis Jones, Karel Dobr\u00fd<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">and <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">Jason Clarke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>How do you find a killer who doesn&#8217;t exist?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leo Demidov (Hardy) was a Russian hero in World War II. After the war Leo became an Agent for Russia\u2019s Ministry of State Security. When a child is found dead by railroad tracks, Leo\u2019s investigation points to murder. But in Stalin\u2019s Russia, murder only occurs in capitalistic societies. Leo is told to list the cause of death as accidental and move on.<\/p>\n<p>Leo digs deeper and discovers many children have been murdered along the train line. All of the killings have been listed as accidents. A serial killer is actively preying on children. Leo is warned to drop his investigation. Failure to follow orders will make Leo an enemy of the government. But if he complies more children will be slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Child 44<\/em> is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Rob Smith\u2019s awesome novel<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The film was banned in Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first cut of <em>Child 44<\/em> was reportedly five and a half hours long. I think the material might have been better served as a limited series. The movie is still good, but I think that there might have been an even better one with the additional footage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><i><b>Child 44 (2015) <\/b><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">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\/2024\/z080124zview_child44b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child 44 (2015) Director: Daniel Espinosa Screenplay: Richard Price, based on\u00a0 CHILD 44 \u00a0by Tom Rob Smith Stars: Tom Hardy,<\/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":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36326","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=36326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36327,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36326\/revisions\/36327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}