{"id":374,"date":"2013-10-21T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T04:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=374"},"modified":"2013-10-21T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T04:57:59","slug":"review-red-heat-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/21\/review-red-heat-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Red Heat (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a classic film from the hey day of Governor Schwarzenegger, when grunting and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Heat-featured-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-375 alignright\" alt=\"Red-Heat-featured-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Heat-featured-image-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>flexing his biceps pretty much got him through every scene. \u00a0That&#8217;s not to say that Arnie did not make slightly better films after this as his range improved, but <em>Red Heat<\/em> was still firmly steeped in the days of grunting!<\/p>\n<p>Arnie plays a hard-nosed Russian cop sent out to America to intercept a Russian gangster.\u00a0Jim Belushi wise-cracks his way through an hour and a bit with reference after reference to masturbation (well that seemed to be what most of his lines were about) and does a fairly good job as his local cop babysitter. Laurence &#8216;Larry&#8217; Fishburne looking very thin and young plays a somewhat straight fellow cop who tut&#8217;s and huffs about Belushi throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Not much here in the way of story or character development, but it stands up quite well against similar films of the ilk coming out in recent years. Call it a guilty pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a classic film from the hey day of Governor Schwarzenegger, when grunting and flexing his biceps pretty much got him through every scene. \u00a0That&#8217;s not to say that Arnie did not make slightly better films after this as his range improved, but Red Heat was still firmly steeped in the days of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/21\/review-red-heat-1988\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Red Heat (1988)&#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-374","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\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}