{"id":3294,"date":"2021-09-04T23:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T23:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:22:37","slug":"film-vengeance-a-love-story-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"FiLM REViEW: Vengeance, A Love Story, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_0962.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_0962.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_0962-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stars_02_One.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stars_02_One.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stars_02_One-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Utter garbage. I\u2019m amazed I bothered to watch it all the way through. How many lame ass Nic Cage films am I going to inflict on myself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White-trash prick-tease Teena (Anna Hutchinson) gets gang-raped &#8211; with her daughter as witness &#8211; by four cartoon rocker ne\u2019erdowells. The loathsome quartet are then acquitted, thanks to the biggest insensitive prick of a judge ever, oh\u2026 and Don Johnson, as the most oleaginous Harley riding lawyer ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout this pitiful movie the heavily made up Nicolas Cage disappears from the screen for long enough &#8211; poss due to the time required attempting to make him look younger? &#8211; to call his star billing into question. The real screen time is shared by the white trash trio of Debs Ungar (as granny Agnes), Teena, and Bethie, the traumatised daughter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew this movie was going to be complete arse when the Patriot Films part of the titles rolled. What passes for patriotism in the US of A these days seems to be gun-fetishism and vigilante ultra-violence. This film sho\u2019 is patriotic, ticking both boxes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set in the Niagra Falls community \u2026 aw, shoot\u2026I really can not be bothered spending any more effort reviewing such toss. Avoid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utter garbage. I\u2019m amazed I bothered to watch it all the way through. How many lame ass Nic Cage films am I going to inflict on myself? White-trash prick-tease Teena (Anna Hutchinson) gets gang-raped &#8211; with her daughter as witness &#8211; by four cartoon rocker ne\u2019erdowells. The loathsome quartet are then acquitted, thanks to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FiLM REViEW: Vengeance, A Love Story, 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-R8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}