{"id":39530,"date":"2025-07-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39530"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:35:16","slug":"39530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39530","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bullet to the Head&#8221; (2012) directed by Walter Hill, starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater and Sung Kang \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z073025zview_bulletohead.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Bullet to the Head <\/i><\/b>(2012)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Walter Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Alessandro Camon;\u00a0<\/strong>based on the comic <em>Du plomb dans la t\u00eate<\/em> by <strong>Matz\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Holt McCallany, Brian Van Holt, Weronika Rosati, Dane Rhodes, Marcus Lyle Brown <\/strong>and <strong>Jon Seda<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Revenge never gets old.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James Bonomo, a.k.a. Jimmy Bobo, and Louis Blanchard are hitmen hired to take out a dirty cop named Hank Greely.\u00a0 After the successful mission, an attempt is made on Bobo and Blanchard by a large killer.\u00a0 Blanchard is murdered, but Bobo survives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington Police Detective Taylor Kwon is sent to investigate the execution of Hank Greely.\u00a0 When corrupt cops attempt to kill Kwon, he is saved by Jimmy Bobo.\u00a0 Kwon&#8217;s a police officer and Bobo is a killer.\u00a0 Neither trusts the other, but Bobo and Kwon will have to work together if they want to survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Bullet to the Head<\/i> is based on the French comic <em>Du Plomb Dans La T\u00eate<\/em> (<em>&#8220;Lead in the Head&#8221;<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wayne <em>&#8220;Running Scared&#8221;<\/em> (2006) Kramer was originally set to direct.\u00a0 He dropped out because he wanted a darker film than Sly Stallone.\u00a0 Stallone then reached out to Walter Hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thomas Jane was originally set to play the cop who teams with Jimmy Bobo.\u00a0 Producer Joel Silver wanted a more &#8220;ethic&#8221; actor to increase overseas sales.\u00a0 Jane was replaced by Sung Kang.<\/p>\n<p>Sly Stallone&#8217;s character&#8217;s name is James <em>&#8220;Jimmy Bobo&#8221;<\/em> Bonomo.\u00a0 In the film Oscar, Stallone&#8217;s gangster character says that he once worked with James <em>&#8220;Jumpin&#8217; Jimmy&#8221;<\/em> Bonomo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>Bullet to the Head (2012) <\/i><\/b>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><br \/>\n<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\/2025\/z073025zview_bulletohead2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullet to the Head (2012) Director:\u00a0 Walter Hill Screenplay: Alessandro Camon;\u00a0based on the comic Du plomb dans la t\u00eate by<\/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":[17,56,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-comics","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\/39530","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=39530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39533,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39530\/revisions\/39533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}