{"id":9223,"date":"2013-12-08T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2021-03-10T19:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:15:44","slug":"z-view-homefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9223","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Homefront&#8221; \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2013\/june\/062313homefront_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Pitch:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Hey, <strong>Sly<\/strong> has a great action screenplay that he was gonna use for<em><strong> Rambo<\/strong><\/em> available. \u00a0It&#8217;s based on a book by<strong> Chuck Hogan<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Sly<\/strong> says <strong>Jason Statham<\/strong> is up for the lead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s do it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tagline:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;How far would you go to protect your home?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Overview:<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Jason Statham<\/strong> plays <strong>Phil Broker<\/strong>, a <strong>retired under-cover DEA agent<\/strong> who moved to rural Louisiana to raise his 9 year old daughter after the death of his wife. \u00a0When his daughter bloodies the nose of a class bully (who happens the be the child of the local meth dealer) things quickly escalate and <strong>Statham&#8217;s past<\/strong> as a DEA agent becomes known. Soon an <strong>outlaw motorcycle gang<\/strong> and local thugs are both looking for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>*** Beware &#8211; minor spoilers can be found below ***<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The cast. \u00a0Kate Bosworth<\/strong> kills in her role as, <strong>Cassie Bodine Klum<\/strong>, a redneck, methhead who is used to getting her way thanks to her brother being the local &#8220;Walter White.&#8221; \u00a0<strong>James Franco<\/strong> as <strong>&#8220;Gator&#8221; Bodine<\/strong> is surprisingly effective in a role that wouldn&#8217;t at first seem to fit him. \u00a0<strong>Winona Ryder, Clancy Brown<\/strong> and <strong>Chuck Zito<\/strong> all make welcome appearances. \u00a0<strong>Jason Statham<\/strong> is of course <strong>Jason Statham<\/strong> (that&#8217;s good).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Broker<\/strong> does his best to avoid trouble, but there is a line he won&#8217;t cross and God help you if you cross it!<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>fight scenes<\/strong> and the fact that they avoided<strong> Statham<\/strong> giving &#8220;wise-cracks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Broker<\/strong> mistakenly thinks that <strong>Jimmy Klum<\/strong> is behind the threats to him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happens when you don&#8217;t let<strong> Broker<\/strong> finish filling his tank.<\/li>\n<li>When you are a friend of <strong>Broker&#8217;s<\/strong> and go to pick up his horses.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re the class bully and you decide to pick on <strong>Broker&#8217;s<\/strong> daughter.<\/li>\n<li>Being married to<strong> Cassie Bodine Klum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of <strong>Gator Bodine&#8217;s<\/strong> thugs ankles after <strong>Broker<\/strong> has had enough.<\/li>\n<li>When you raise your gun towards dozens of cops who are armed, hyped up and have warned you to drop it.<\/li>\n<li>That <em><strong>Homefront<\/strong><\/em> is doing better at the box office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rating: 4 out of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch:\u00a0&#8220;Hey, Sly has a great action screenplay that he was gonna use for Rambo available. \u00a0It&#8217;s based on a<\/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":[17,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223","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=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25594,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions\/25594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}