{"id":41693,"date":"2026-05-17T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41693"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:31:49","slug":"war-machine-2026-starring-alan-ritchson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41693","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;War Machine&#8221; (2026) starring Alan Ritchson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z051726zview_warmachine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"726\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>War Machine <\/i><\/b>(2026)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Patrick Hughes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Patrick Hughes, James Beaufort;<\/strong> story by <strong>Patrick Hughes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Alan Ritchson, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Keiynan Lonsdale, Daniel Webber <\/strong>and<strong> Dennis Quaid<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soldiers wishing to become Army Rangers are called by numbers, not names.\u00a0 These warriors are put through weeks of grueling training.\u00a0 Each week a percentage of the GIs are washed out.\u00a0 In the final week the remaining potential rangers are sent on a mission.\u00a0 If successful, they become Army Rangers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite his avoidance of leadership roles in training, Soldier #81 is put in charge of the final mission.\u00a0 Dropped in a remote wilderness area, the trainees are on there own.\u00a0 Against all odds, the potential rangers find themselves fighting an unstoppable war machine from another planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alan Ritchson performed many of his own stunts.<\/p>\n<p>Director Patrick Hughes appears onscreen in a cameo as Master Sergeant Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Quaid is great in a small, but important role.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>War Machine (2026) <\/i><\/b>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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\/2026\/z051726zview_warmachine2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Machine (2026) Director: Patrick Hughes Screenplay: Patrick Hughes, James Beaufort; story by Patrick Hughes Stars: Alan Ritchson, Stephan James,<\/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-41693","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\/41693","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=41693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41694,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions\/41694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}