{"id":36801,"date":"2024-09-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36801"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T23:10:34","slug":"36801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36801","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Big Bang&#8221; (2010) directed by Tony Krantz, starring Antonio Banderas &amp; Sam Elliott \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092524zview_bigbang.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>The Big Bang<\/b><\/i><\/em> (2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Tony Krantz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Erik Jendresen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Antonio Banderas, Thomas Kretschmann<\/strong><strong>, William Fichtner, Sienna Guillory, Delroy Lindo, Autumn Reeser, James Van Der Beek, Jimmi Simpson, Bill Duke, Rebecca Mader, Robert Maillet, Snoop Dogg<\/strong> and <strong>Sam Elliott.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The search for the ultimate missing person ends&#8230; at the beginning of time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late one evening private eye Ned Cruz (Banderas) is in his office after a rough day.\u00a0 When Anton <em>&#8216;The Pro&#8217;<\/em> Protopov (Maillet) suddenly appears in front of his desk, Cruz is shocked.\u00a0 Who wouldn&#8217;t be?\u00a0 Anton is a solid,\u00a0 7 foot tall ex-prize fighter, ex-con.\u00a0 Anton&#8217;s career ended when he killed an opponent in the ring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anton wants Cruz to find Lexie.\u00a0 Lexie wrote Anton regularly while he was in prison. Anton didn&#8217;t know Lexie, but wants to meet her.\u00a0 \u00a0And he&#8217;s willing to pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Cruz follows leads, people turn up dead.\u00a0 Then Cruz realizes he&#8217;s being followed. Cruz isn&#8217;t surprised since there&#8217;s $30 million in diamonds at the center of the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon Cruz is pressured by Anton and three crooked cops.\u00a0 Cruz is in over his head and that&#8217;s before the trail leads to a genius\/crazy physicist on the verge of discovering the &#8220;God particle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Big Bang\u00a0<\/em>owes a lot to <em>Farewell, My Lovely<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more of a love letter than rip off.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re into physics, you&#8217;ll get a kick out of the Easter eggs in this film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>The Big Bang <\/b><\/i>(2010)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.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\/z092524zview_bigbang2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Bang (2010) Director: Tony Krantz Screenplay: Erik Jendresen Stars: Antonio Banderas, Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Sienna Guillory, Delroy<\/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":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","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\/36801","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=36801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37037,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36801\/revisions\/37037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}