{"id":36892,"date":"2024-09-30T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36892"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T00:23:10","slug":"the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36892","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Union&#8221; (2024) starring Mark Wahlberg &amp; Halle Berry \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z093024zview_theunion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>The Union<\/b><\/i><\/em> (2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Julian Farino<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Joe Barton, David Guggenheim; <\/strong>story by<strong> David Guggenheim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry<\/strong><strong>, J.K. Simmons, Mike Colter, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Lucy Cork, Juan Carlos Hern\u00e1ndez, Adam Collins, Dana Delany, Lorraine Bracco <\/strong>and <strong>Jackie Earle Haley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Old flame. New mission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike McKenna (Wahlberg) works the same job he got when he graduated high school 25 years ago.\u00a0 His life is a string of meaningless relationships and hanging out with his local friends.\u00a0 So when his high school girlfriend, Roxanne (Berry) shows up one night, he&#8217;s shocked.\u00a0 He hasn&#8217;t seen Roxanne since she left for college.\u00a0 They had just drifted apart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike and Roxanne have a great evening.\u00a0 Until she tranquilizes him.\u00a0 Mike wakes up in London.\u00a0 Roxanne explains that she&#8217;s a secret agent working for a government department known as <em>The Union<\/em>.\u00a0 Because on a recent mission several agents were killed, <em>The Union<\/em> needs new recruits.\u00a0 Roxanne has recommended Mike for the job.\u00a0 <em>The Union<\/em> is made up of everyday people that are given special training.\u00a0 Because they haven&#8217;t stood out in any areas, they are not on anyone&#8217;s radar and make good spies.<\/p>\n<p>Mike reluctantly agrees.\u00a0 Let the good times roll.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re willing to go with the silly idea of The Union&#8217;s rationale for recruits, you will have a relatively good time.\u00a0 Much of this is because of the casting: Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, J.K. Simmons, Mike Colter, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Dana Delany, Lorraine Bracco and Jackie Earle Haley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>The Union<\/b><\/i> (2024)<\/strong> <\/em>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\/z093024zview_theunion2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union (2024) Director: Julian Farino Screenplay: Joe Barton, David Guggenheim; story by David Guggenheim Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry,<\/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":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36892","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\/36892","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=36892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37118,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36892\/revisions\/37118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}