{"id":849,"date":"2003-11-16T23:42:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T23:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-849.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","slug":"welcome-to-collinwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/11\/16\/welcome-to-collinwood\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Welcome To Collinwood<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this was supposed to be a crime caper, or a character study of a bunch of mismatched no-hopers chasing a dream of escape from poverty.  Either way, it ended up as a forced slapstick about a burglary gone wrong.  There are a few funny moments, and a few nice character touches, but they&#8217;re the rare exception.  Most of the time the protagonists are nothing more than a bunch of unlikeable half-wits who can&#8217;t bust their way through a damp napkin, let alone a jeweller&#8217;s safe.  Yes, this appears to be exactly what the script calls for, but <em>why<\/em>?  What is the film trying to say?  It left me cold because it lacks heart, and lacks direction.  This is exemplified by the ending, which allows the gang&#8217;s failure to fizzle out in spectacularly anti-climactic &#8220;that&#8217;s <em>it<\/em>?&#8221; fashion.  <em>All<\/em> of the cast can do better than this in their sleep.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this was supposed to be a crime caper, or a character study of a bunch of mismatched no-hopers chasing a dream of escape from poverty. Either way, it ended up as a forced slapstick about a burglary gone wrong. There are a few funny moments, and a few nice character touches, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_15_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}