{"id":14470,"date":"2021-09-13T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14470"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:27:33","slug":"vengeance-2009-johnnie-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14470","title":{"rendered":"Vengeance (2009, Johnnie To)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irene barely survives a violent home invasion, her family killed, her dad Johnny Hallyday (<em>Man on the Train<\/em>) visits in a Macau hospital and swears revenge.  But Johnny&#8217;s not an elite killer getting dragged back into the business, he&#8217;s just a French restauranteur with a fading memory.  He runs across a team of hitmen played by the Johnnie To superstars Suet Lam, Anthony Wong and Lam &#8220;Bo in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14466\">Sparrow<\/a><\/em>&#8221; Ka-Tung and they can fit his revenge scheme into their schedule.  Of course since their boss is Simon Yam and he barely appears in the first half of the movie, I guessed the (very satisfying) second half would pit our doomed men against their own organization.  Since there&#8217;s a French lead actor, this was able to play in competition at Cannes, but got robbed by <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4243\">Haneke<\/a> and <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11064\">Audiard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/vengeance1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/vengeance2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/vengeance3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene barely survives a violent home invasion, her family killed, her dad Johnny Hallyday (Man on the Train) visits in a Macau hospital and swears revenge. But Johnny&#8217;s not an elite killer getting dragged back into the business, he&#8217;s just a French restauranteur with a fading memory. He runs across a team of hitmen played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,2917,804,879,131,144,2915],"class_list":["post-14470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-anthony-wong","tag-hitman","tag-johnnie-to","tag-memory","tag-revenge","tag-simon-yam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14489,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions\/14489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}