{"id":42672,"date":"2026-09-10T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42672"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:41:23","slug":"violent-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42672","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Violent Ends&#8221; (2025) written &amp; directed by John-Michael Powell; starring Billy Magnussen, James Badge Dale, Kate Burton, Ray McKinnon, Nick Stahl and Alexandra Shipp \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091026review_violentends.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Violent Ends <\/i>(2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>John-Michael Powell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>John-Michael Powell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Billy Magnussen, James Badge Dale, Kate Burton, Ray McKinnon, Nick Stahl <\/strong>and <strong>Alexandra Shipp<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>This Isn&#8217;t Revenge. It&#8217;s a Reckoning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Frost family are infamous in Arkansas.\u00a0 For generations they have been involved in all types of crime.\u00a0 Years ago, infighting nearly destroyed the family.\u00a0 A truce was made.\u00a0 One branch of the family controlled the cocaine trade; the other dealt meth.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been an uneasy truce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lucas Frost stayed out of the family business.\u00a0 He wanted a better life and was on the verge of getting it.\u00a0 Emma loved him.\u00a0 He loved her.\u00a0 They planned to be married, move far away and start a family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That all changed when Emma was accidentally killed during a robbery.\u00a0 A robbery pulled off by a family member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lucas wants vengeance&#8230; even if it breaks the truce and causes all out war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I like the concept of a crime family in an uneasy truce followed by an incident that could blow up the peace and destroy the family in the process.\u00a0 How far would you go for revenge if it meant others in your family would be hurt\/killed? How much would you forgive to keep family peace?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Violent Ends <\/i>(2025)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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\/z091026review_violentends2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent Ends (2025) Director: \u00a0John-Michael Powell Screenplay: \u00a0John-Michael Powell Stars: Billy Magnussen, James Badge Dale, Kate Burton, Ray McKinnon, Nick<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672","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=42672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42728,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672\/revisions\/42728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}