{"id":1282,"date":"2024-06-20T06:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/mayhem\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T06:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T06:27:15","slug":"mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action flick of the year is not called \u201cMayhem,\u201d it\u2019s called <strong><em>\u201cMayhem!\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0You&#8217;re supposed to yell it excitedly as you buy your ticket.\u00a0Although it would more accurately be called \u201cMayhem?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because the fact is that vicious genre director Xavier Gens doesn\u2019t fulfill on the punctuation in\u00a0his premise, especially in the interminable first half of the film, which starts with a bang that portends \u201cThe Raid\u201d-esque non-stop action and then spins its wheels in set-up that feels like it takes forever. Once the action does pick up again, presuming you\u2019re still awake, there are a few undeniably impressive sequences, including another hallway brawl that feels thinly inspired by \u201cOldboy\u201d and a spectacular battle with knives and guns in the close quarters of an elevator. These bursts of visceral power aren\u2019t enough to get over the film\u2019s many lulls or how much time is spent in service of a bare-bones, cheaply manipulative\u00a0vengeance plot that never deepens its stakes to feel anything but two-dimensional. Maybe it should have been called \u201c&#8230; Mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action flick of the year is not called \u201cMayhem,\u201d it\u2019s called \u201cMayhem!\u201d\u00a0You&#8217;re supposed to yell it excitedly as you buy your ticket.\u00a0Although it would more accurately be called \u201cMayhem?\u201d\u00a0 Because the fact is that vicious genre director Xavier Gens doesn\u2019t fulfill on the punctuation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,50,45],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-movies","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}