{"id":36749,"date":"2024-09-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36749"},"modified":"2024-09-19T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:38:49","slug":"36749","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36749","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Killer&#8221; (2024) directed by John Woo \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092024zview_killer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>The Killer<\/b><\/i><\/em> (2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>John Woo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken; <\/strong>based on <em>The Killer<\/em> by<strong> John Woo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy<\/strong><strong>, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Sa\u00efd Taghmaoui, Tch\u00e9ky Karyo <\/strong>and <strong>Aur\u00e9lia Agel<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>A classic. Reloaded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zee (Emmanuel) is a hit woman known as <em>The Queen of the Dead<\/em>.\u00a0 On a job, Zee successfully eliminates all of her targets.\u00a0 Unfortunately Jenn Clark, a singer is wounded, causing her to losing her sight.\u00a0 Although Zee had been hired to execute everyone, she takes pity and allows Jenn to live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This decision turns Zee&#8217;s employers against her.\u00a0 Now Zee has a crime cartel and the police on her trail.\u00a0 An unlikely alliance with a police inspector may be her saving grace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Killer<\/em> (1989) is a classic.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a huge fan of it, so I was looking forward to see what Woo would do with the remake.\u00a0 Sadly, it fell far short of my expectations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There had been talk of a <em>The Killer<\/em> remake for years.\u00a0 In 1992, Walter Hill and David Giler worked up a script.\u00a0 The hope was Richard Gere and Denzel Washington would star.\u00a0 Nicholas Cage had expressed interest if a remake was ever created.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>The Killer<\/b><\/i> (2024)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.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\/z092024zview_killer2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Killer (2024) Director: John Woo Screenplay: Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken; based on The Killer by John Woo<\/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":[51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/36749","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=36749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36929,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions\/36929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}