{"id":38432,"date":"2025-03-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38432"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:41:58","slug":"elevation-2024-starring-anthony-mackie-and-morena-baccarin-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38432","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Elevation&#8221; (2024) starring Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z030325zview_elevation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Elevation <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>George Nolfi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Glenn, Jacob Roman, Kenny Ryan<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Anthony Mackie, Morena Baccarin, Maddie Hasson, Rachel Nicks, Tyler Grey, Ian Hummel <\/strong>and <strong>Danny Boyd Jr.<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Don&#8217;t go down without a fight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three years ago, armored creatures burrowed to the surface and began wiping out humankind.\u00a0 The beasts were impervious to our weapons due to the natural protective plates that covered their bodies.\u00a0 95% of the world&#8217;s population was dead within weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only those who lived or could get to 8,000 feet above sea level survived.\u00a0 For some reason the creatures wouldn&#8217;t go above that level.\u00a0 Now small villages of survivors live above 8,000 foot elevation line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Wil&#8217;s son, Hunter (Boyd Jr.) runs low on his breathing medication, Wil (Mackie) knows he&#8217;ll have to go to Boulder to get more.\u00a0 The city is below the 8,000 foot level.\u00a0 It will almost certainly be a suicide mission.\u00a0 But if he doesn&#8217;t go Hunter will die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joining Wil will be Nina (Baccarin), a scientist working to create a bullet strong enough to penetrate the creatures&#8217; armor and Katie (Hasson), a woman tired of hiding above the safety line.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a suicide run to save a child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Be sure to watch the mid-credits scene which could set-up a sequel.<\/p>\n<p>I love the pre-opening credits set-up and the final scene before the end credits.<\/p>\n<p>Mackie, Baccarin, Hasson were well cast.\u00a0 I like the trio&#8217;s chemistry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Elevation <\/i>(2024) <\/em><\/strong>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\/2025\/z030325zview_elevation2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elevation (2024) Director: George Nolfi Screenplay: John Glenn, Jacob Roman, Kenny Ryan Stars: Anthony Mackie, Morena Baccarin, Maddie Hasson, Rachel<\/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":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","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\/38432","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=38432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38433,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38432\/revisions\/38433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}