{"id":2232,"date":"2010-10-06T12:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T12:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2010-10-06T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T12:46:25","slug":"the-mercenary-contemporary-review-from-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/the-mercenary-contemporary-review-from-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercenary &#8211; Contemporary review from The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franco Nero, who seemed such a dull stick in Camelot, takes on a very different and more appealing complexion here as a Polish gunman on hire to anyone who will pay his rates in Mexico early this century.\u00a0 His speciality is keeping his cool when all around are losing their &#8211; which they do rather frequently in this Italian western (director, Sergio Corbucci) with its full quota of sadistic bloodletting and perverse passion.\u00a0 At least it is constantly lively, and a sight better than the more famous (if not infamous) works of Sergio Leone, who started the cycle off with A Fistful of Dollars.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Russell Taylor, Thursday Nov 27, 1969. The Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franco Nero, who seemed such a dull stick in Camelot, takes on a very different and more appealing complexion here as a Polish gunman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[814,618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}