{"id":1170,"date":"2006-06-15T21:48:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2006-06-15T21:51:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T20:51:18","slug":"review-16-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Review: 16 Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Donner must be really getting old. After the excellent Lethal Weapon series I thought he suicided with Timeline (I would&#8217;ve, if that piece of $h1at  was mine), but he&#8217;s going old school with this one again. Entertaining as the oldies were, there weren&#8217;t many brain twisters amongst those. And that&#8217;s where 16 Blocks will fit in. It&#8217;s like sliced and diced cheese blocks ready for consumption.<br \/>\nSo, to average things out, the acting performances are pretty standard (Bruce Willis&#8217; performances after the M. Night Shyamalan projects never really impressed me), with only Mos Def having a slightly different role than we&#8217;re used to. Story is predictable, and jokes only intermittent. Also, Donner&#8217;s direction is mostly uneventful. Nothing special, slightly entertaining, and most important, it&#8217;s not boring. If you already know what you&#8217;re getting yourself into, it&#8217;s not bad at all.7+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Donner must be really getting old. After the excellent Lethal Weapon series I thought he suicided with Timeline (I would&#8217;ve, if that piece of $h1at was mine), but he&#8217;s going old school with this one again. Entertaining as the oldies were, there weren&#8217;t many brain twisters amongst those. And that&#8217;s where 16 Blocks will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}