{"id":9929,"date":"2014-04-16T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2021-03-05T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:07:11","slug":"z-view-the-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9929","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Last Stand&#8221; \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z041614zview_laststand_poster.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pitch<\/span>:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201dHey, what do you think about having Arnold as the police chief of a small town up against a Mexican cartel?<em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s do it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tagline<\/span>:<\/strong>&nbsp; &#8220;Not in his town. &nbsp;Not on his watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Overview<\/span>:<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>*** Beware \u2013 &nbsp;spoilers are found below ***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a Mexican drug cartel kingpin busts out of custody and makes a break for the border surrounded and supported by his hired killers, the only thing standing between him and freedom is a small town sheriff and a couple of green deputies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Good<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I like the premise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is always great to see <strong>Forrest Whitaker, Luis Guzman<\/strong> and <strong>Harry Dean Stanton<\/strong>. <strong>&nbsp;Arnold<\/strong> is<strong> Arnold<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The kingpin&#8217;s escape is well done. &nbsp;The magnet was a nice touch as were the orange suited running men. [I really liked <strong>Forrest Whitaker&#8217;s<\/strong> interrogation scene with the Dutch soccer fan.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is plenty of action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bad<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the humor felt out of place [<strong>Arnold<\/strong> telling the diner people to leave, the &#8220;schmuck&#8221; line at the beginning and end of the movie, etc.]. &nbsp;Let <strong>Johnny Knoxville<\/strong> be the comedy relief and let everyone else play it straight.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happens when <strong>Arnold<\/strong> dives into you knocking you both off a two-story building. &nbsp;And landing on a car with <strong>Arnold<\/strong> on top of you will be the least of your worries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rating: 3 out of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z041614zview_laststand_photo.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch:&nbsp;\u201dHey, what do you think about having Arnold as the police chief of a small town up against a<\/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":[51,63,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929","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=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25267,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/25267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}