{"id":1354,"date":"2013-11-22T22:33:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2013-11-23T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T06:58:31","slug":"killing_season_2013_movie_review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/killing_season_2013_movie_review\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Season (2013) \u2013 Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"killing_season_2013\"<\/a>So, riddle-me-this\u2026typically when you get two great actors such as Robert DeNiro and John Travolta in one flick you have an instant movie classic, right? \u00a0Well, let me solve this riddle and inform you that this isn\u2019t always case and Killing Season (2013) is one of those.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, this certainly was not a bad movie.\u00a0 But neither was it a particularly good movie.\u00a0 This simply was a movie that seems like it \u201cdidn\u2019t happen\u201d.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t have a soul, nor conviction.\u00a0 In other words, the movie started and then it ended. \u00a01 \u00bd hours later and there was no meat in-between in spite of some high action scenes.\u00a0 I can\u2019t find the right way to describe how this movie missed-the-mark other than it felt like DeNiro and Travolta did a personal favor for a movie-director friend.<\/p>\n

Killing Season opened with a disturbing scene depicting some awful events that took place during the Bosnian War.\u00a0 While this scene was quite emotional this could have set the stage for a good plot, especially considering the star talent of both Academy Award winning actors.\u00a0 There was some attempt by the director to create an emotional attachment with the characters throughout the film.\u00a0 Yet in spite of the greatest of Robert and John\u2019s acting talent, it just didn\u2019t work well for me.<\/p>\n

Therefore I can easily summarize Killing Season as this: \u201cStart movie : Some action here in the middle : End movie\u201d.\u00a0 The movie felt like it wanted to be great but it was just blah. \u00a0This was a movie that seemed to have great potential so I was a bit disappointed in this under-achiever.\u00a0 If it weren\u2019t for Robert and John acting in this film then Killing Season would get a much lower Steeler-Star rating however, in the end this deserves an average rating of 5 out of 10 Steeler Stars.<\/p>\n

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So, riddle-me-this\u2026typically when you get two great actors such as Robert DeNiro and John Travolta in one flick you have an instant movie classic, right? \u00a0Well, let me solve this riddle and inform you that this isn\u2019t always case and Killing Season (2013) is one of those. Don\u2019t get me wrong, this certainly was not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[384,383,380,140,381,382,385],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-bosnian","tag-deniro","tag-killing","tag-movie","tag-season","tag-travolta","tag-war"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"coral-dark-medium-large-2x":false,"coral-dark-large-2x":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"So, riddle-me-this\u2026typically when you get two great actors such as Robert DeNiro and John Travolta in one flick you have an instant movie classic, right? \u00a0Well, let me solve this riddle and inform you that this isn\u2019t always case and Killing Season (2013) is one of those. Don\u2019t get me wrong, this certainly was not…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}