{"id":38126,"date":"2025-01-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38126"},"modified":"2025-01-05T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T23:09:32","slug":"operation-rainfall-2020-written-directed-by-luke-sparke-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38126","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Operation: Rainfall&#8221; (2020) written &amp; directed by Luke Sparke \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z010625zview_operationrainfall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Operation: Rainfall <\/i>(2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Luke Sparke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Luke Sparke;<\/strong> additional dialogue by <strong>Dale Dye, Felix Williamson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Lawrence Makoare, Jet Tranter <\/strong>and <strong>Ken Jeong<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Invasion was just the beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two years into an alien invasion, the resistance learns of an alien plan called &#8220;Rainfall&#8221;.\u00a0 A battle-scarred vet, a young idealistic kid who wants to be a warrior and an alien sympathetic to the human fight, set out on a mission to take down the alien operation before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Operation: Rainfall<\/em> is a sequel to the 2018 film <em>Occupation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a fan of low-budget sci-fi, then <em>Operation: Rainfall<\/em> is for you.\u00a0 It reminded me of something you&#8217;d see on Saturday mornings in the early 80s when there were attempts to cash in on the <em>Star Wars<\/em> craze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Operation: Rainfall <\/i>(2020) <\/em><\/strong>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\/2025\/z010625zview_operationrainfall2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation: Rainfall (2020) Director: \u00a0Luke Sparke Screenplay: Luke Sparke; additional dialogue by Dale Dye, Felix Williamson Stars: Dan Ewing, Temuera<\/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":[54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/38126","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=38126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38127,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38126\/revisions\/38127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}