{"id":685,"date":"2013-12-17T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=685"},"modified":"2013-12-17T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T02:05:53","slug":"review-enemies-closer-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/review-enemies-closer-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Enemies Closer (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-686\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/enemiescloser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-686\" alt=\"enemiescloser\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/enemiescloser-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alright he might have had a hair job, but it sure looked like a clown wig to me..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This movie pretty much stunk! It could have been a lot better..<\/p>\n<p>Now as a balding middle-aged man myself I don&#8217;t want to knock one of the &#8220;brothers&#8221; but Van Damme looked to be obviously wearing a wig to me and one he had borrowed from a clown costume. His hair was extremely distracting while he tried to play the psychopathic villain.\u00a0At times I wondered if they were trying to imitate the &#8220;Joker&#8221; from Batman as this is kinda how it played on screen.<\/p>\n<p>The plot was fairly empty without much in the way of story or character development, even as a pure action flick this movie rated pretty poorly. Its all set on an island which has become a national park and some drugs or other that have been lost at sea, well you can guess the rest in the first five minutes&#8230;there was only one twist which did get me, but once it played out it didn&#8217;t redeem the movie much. Give me old-school Van Damme any day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This movie pretty much stunk! It could have been a lot better.. Now as a balding middle-aged man myself I don&#8217;t want to knock one of the &#8220;brothers&#8221; but Van Damme looked to be obviously wearing a wig to me and one he had borrowed from a clown costume. His hair was extremely distracting while &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/review-enemies-closer-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Enemies Closer (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-685","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\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}