{"id":1123,"date":"2004-05-09T23:58:38","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T23:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1123.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"the-tailor-of-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/05\/09\/the-tailor-of-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Tailor Of Panama<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting character-based spy story.  In his portrayal of MI6 agent Andy Osnard, Pierce Brosnan takes his James Bond character, stuffs him full of self-assured arrogance and strips him bare of sympathy.  This reckless, slimy egoist is exiled to Panama for past indiscretions.  There, he twists the arm of tailor Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), a man with a tenuous link to Panama&#8217;s top politicians, a secret in his past, and mounting debts.  Pendel is also an accomplished liar and fantasist, and just as Osnard perverts Pendel&#8217;s tales for his own ends, so does Pendel try to play Osnard for all he can get.  It&#8217;s a game of intelligence chicken that goes wrong.  Eventually the deceptions spiral out of control, and the stakes escalate beyond either of their control.  This may sound a bit grim, but it&#8217;s a surprisingly humorous and at times very touching film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting character-based spy story. In his portrayal of MI6 agent Andy Osnard, Pierce Brosnan takes his James Bond character, stuffs him full of self-assured arrogance and strips him bare of sympathy. This reckless, slimy egoist is exiled to Panama for past indiscretions. There, he twists the arm of tailor Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), a man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}