{"id":28568,"date":"2023-03-31T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28568"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:27:35","slug":"a-review-of-the-2020-action-movie-the-old-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28568","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 2020 action movie &#8220;The Old Guard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nCharlize Theron in combat mode is always a sight to behold. After her stand-out performances in &#8220;Mad Max: Fury Road&#8221; (2015) and &#8220;Atomic Blonde&#8221; (2017), she has the lead role in &#8220;The Old Guard&#8221; which, as a Netflix movie appearing at the beginning of the pandemic, went straight to streaming. Theron plays the leader of a small team of immortal mercenaries who, in the present day, are about to gain a new recruit, if they can stay ahead of big pharma which wants to exploit their special genetics. The story is based a on graphic novel by Greg Rucka who is the debut screenwriter.\n<p>\nThis is quite a progressive work: Theron is not just the lead actor but a co-director; the female director Gina Prince-Bythewood and two of the main actors are black; and there is a gay scene between two of the superheroes. This would not be enough commend it but, in addition, there are plenty of exciting acting sequences and a decent screenplay. The final scene neatly sets us up for a sequel and it looks like there&#8217;s a franchise in the making.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlize Theron in combat mode is always a sight to behold. After her stand-out performances in &#8220;Mad Max: Fury Road&#8221; (2015) and &#8220;Atomic Blonde&#8221; (2017), she has the lead role in &#8220;The Old Guard&#8221; which, as a Netflix movie appearing at the beginning of the pandemic, went straight to streaming. Theron plays the leader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28570,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28568\/revisions\/28570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}