{"id":39987,"date":"2013-12-10T22:27:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/movie-review-the-mask-of-zorro-1998.html"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:09:15","slug":"movie-review-the-mask-of-zorro-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/movie-review-the-mask-of-zorro-1998.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "The Mask of Zorro" (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"
It's not a great movie, not even a great Zorro movie, but it's decent swashbuckling fun with a Spanish accent. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I was surprised, and saddened, to learn that Raul Julia had originally been tapped for the part of the elder Zorro before he died; Anthony Hopkins plays the role with his usual panache, but thinking back to Julia's swordplay in the Addams Family movies, it's a real loss his not being here (the whole ethnic thing making it\u00a0more so).\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Mask of Zorro (1998)<\/a>
\n There’s a lot to like about TMoZ — the cast (Banderas, Hopkins, Zeta-Jones) are all good, and the action and fight sequences are excellent. It misfires on a cylinder or two with an overly-complex plot (in part due to two intertwined Zorros and their narratives), villains that don’t get past the mustache-twirling stage, and odd swerving between near-slapstick when fighting minions and tragic drama when dealing with both Zorros’ backgrounds and ob…\n <\/p>\n

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It's not a great movie, not even a great Zorro movie, but it's decent swashbuckling fun with a Spanish accent. \u00a0 I was surprised, and saddened, to learn that Raul Julia had originally been tapped for the part of the elder Zorro before he died; Anthony Hopkins plays the role with his usual panache, but … Continue reading “Movie Review: "The Mask of Zorro" (1998)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-39987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40021,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-puss-in-boots-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":39987,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Puss in Boots" (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Dec-13 7:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not quite as overpacked with topical humor as the Shrek series that spawned it, this feline swashbuckler is a fun, funny little romp -- nothing that will affect cinematic history, but worth 90 minutes of your life.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Puss in Boots (2011) Having just watched \"The Mask\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":374,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/dont_know_much.html","url_meta":{"origin":39987,"position":1},"title":"Don’t know much about history …","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Apr-03 8:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sweet -- a compilation of timelines for various creative works -- movies, TV, comics, book series. 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