{"id":15037,"date":"2022-06-28T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15037"},"modified":"2022-06-28T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:36:50","slug":"the-mission-1999-johnnie-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15037","title":{"rendered":"The Mission (1999, Johnnie To)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good movie, from the shockingly great opening synth theme song on.<br \/>\nWorks fine as a hangout film of  Johnnie regulars, and there are plenty of shots like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mission1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Assassination attempts go badly, double-crosses and twists, but it never feels plotty.  The guys I didn&#8217;t recognize were Francis Ng (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2740\">Exiled<\/a><\/em>) and Jackie Lui Chung-Yin (horrors <em>Snake Charmer<\/em> and <em>Wife From Hell<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mission2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good movie, from the shockingly great opening synth theme song on. Works fine as a hangout film of Johnnie regulars, and there are plenty of shots like this: Assassination attempts go badly, double-crosses and twists, but it never feels plotty. The guys I didn&#8217;t recognize were Francis Ng (Exiled) and Jackie Lui Chung-Yin (horrors Snake [&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":[451,1903,32,879,144],"class_list":["post-15037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-assassination","tag-hong-kong","tag-johnnie-to","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037","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=15037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15076,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions\/15076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}