{"id":128424,"date":"2015-10-24T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T21:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/movie-review-john-wick-2014.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:43:52","slug":"movie-review-john-wick-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/movie-review-john-wick-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;John Wick&quot; (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stylish but ultimately empty hitman-out-for-vengeance shoot-em-up. Those who like this sort of thing will find it the sort of thing they like.<\/p>\n<p>Marginally more detailed review: <a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/john-wick\/\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/john-wick\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6209324916017991649\/6209324927773190978'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-HNxM-NYTFBs\/Viv0H5bmK0I\/AAAAAAADa2k\/9r3tBBtTeNA\/MV5BMTU2NjA1ODgzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM2MTI4MjE%2540._V1_SX640_SY720_%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/FhdfSCYXpLk'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stylish but ultimately empty hitman-out-for-vengeance shoot-em-up. Those who like this sort of thing will find it the sort of thing they like. Marginally more detailed review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/john-wick\/ \u00a0 View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MV5BMTU2NjA1ODgzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM2MTI4MjE40._V1_SX640_SY720_5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160048,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/19\/movie-trailers-seen-before-quantumania.html","url_meta":{"origin":128424,"position":0},"title":"Movie trailers seen before &#8220;Quantumania&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Feb-23 12:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Time for another review of movie adverts at the movies","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"Movie Trailer MPAA Notice","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/a5cf2_movie_trailer_post_image5B15D.jpeg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":131562,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/17\/movie-review-john-carter.html","url_meta":{"origin":128424,"position":1},"title":"*Movie Review: &quot;John Carter&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 17-Sep-16 8:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That Disney couldn't figure out how to market this lovely adaptation of ERB's adventure novel A Princess of Mars has to rank as one of the great failures of the Disney regime, right behind bobbling The Rocketeer.Full review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/john-carter\/I grieve for the sequel we will never see.Four stars (and a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/john-carter-poster5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":49409,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/book-review-lock-in-by-john-scalzi-2014.html","url_meta":{"origin":128424,"position":2},"title":"Book Review: &quot;Lock In&quot; by John Scalzi (2014)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jan-15 10:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Solid speculative SF, witty banter, and a nice futuristic police procedural. 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