{"id":6516,"date":"2013-12-08T13:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2013-12-08T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:51:04","slug":"z-view-homefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/08\/z-view-homefront\/","title":{"rendered":"Z-View: &#8220;Homefront&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2013\/june\/062313homefront_poster.png?resize=500%2C744\" 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 <strong><em>Rambo<\/em><\/strong> 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>&nbsp;<\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\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>&nbsp;<\/p>\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<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/rating_4star.png?resize=375%2C75\" width=\"375\" height=\"75\" \/><\/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 book by Chuck Hogan. \u00a0Sly says Jason Statham is up for the lead.&#8221; &#8220;Let&#8217;s do it!&#8221; &nbsp; The Tagline:\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;How far would you go to protect your home?&#8221; The Overview:\u00a0 Jason Statham plays Phil Broker, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[117,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-homefront"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1H6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6519,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}