{"id":10125,"date":"2009-03-13T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T22:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2009-03-13T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T22:14:26","slug":"last-action-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/last-action-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Action Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-296\" title=\"jcvd-01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/jcvd-01-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"jcvd-01\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\"Don't call it a comeback!\"<\/p>\n<p>Previously languishing in straight-to-video obscurity, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcvd-themovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JCVD<\/a><\/em>, a shaggy, hilarious, and winning portrait-of-an-artist-as-an-aging-action-star. Beginning in an unusually autobiographical vein, wherein the titular \"Muscles from Brussles\" fights for custody of his daughter in court and struggles to land a credible movie role, it veers into nominal Van Damme-territory as the washed-up icon finds himself in the middle of a dangerously real bank heist. From there, the movie begins to double back on itself, cooking up an off-kilter mixture of genre play, movie-movie self-reflexivity, and thrilling fight scenes (shades of <em>Irma Vep<\/em>?). It's the first great WTF? movie of the year, and after a wearying season of self-important, risk-free Oscar contenders, it's a welcome one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Don't call it a comeback!\" Previously languishing in straight-to-video obscurity, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns with JCVD, a shaggy, hilarious, and winning portrait-of-an-artist-as-an-aging-action-star. Beginning in an unusually autobiographical vein, wherein the titular \"Muscles from Brussles\" fights for custody of his daughter in court and struggles to land a credible movie role, it veers into nominal Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}