{"id":270,"date":"2013-09-30T07:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=270"},"modified":"2013-09-30T07:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:16:58","slug":"review-ambushed-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/30\/review-ambushed-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ambushed (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fairly standard cops and robbers piece with Dolph Lundgren actually giving a pretty good<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ambushed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271 alignright\" alt=\"ambushed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ambushed.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a> performance. Also unlike too many of his films we are not &#8220;treated&#8221; to 20 minute fight scenes where suddenly everyone in the melee becomes an Olympic standard martial arts expert.<\/p>\n<p>Instead Lundgren&#8217;s trademark fighting is kept to a minimum and the film concentrates on an actual story with characters. Without trying to say it is anywhere near as good, I can see a lot of <em>Casino<\/em> in the film stylistically and that&#8217;s hardly a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a tad violent at times and a few deaths that resulted in a remarkable lack of any discernible bleeding, but all in all if you enjoy the genre you will enjoy <em>Ambushed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fairly standard cops and robbers piece with Dolph Lundgren actually giving a pretty good performance. Also unlike too many of his films we are not &#8220;treated&#8221; to 20 minute fight scenes where suddenly everyone in the melee becomes an Olympic standard martial arts expert. Instead Lundgren&#8217;s trademark fighting is kept to a minimum and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/30\/review-ambushed-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Ambushed (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}