{"id":311,"date":"2013-07-08T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=311"},"modified":"2013-08-25T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T16:07:46","slug":"fatal-deviation-1998-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Deviation (1998) &#8211; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Fatal Deviation&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For movie information, follow <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0488046\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Bennett returns to his hometown after 10 years in reform school.\u00a0 With the help of a Celtic Monk and a local beauty, he determines to find out who murdered his father.\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was\u00a0 billed as Ireland&#8217;s first martial arts film.\u00a0 It was intended as an homage to martial arts greats like Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme.\u00a0 I could deal with the low production value, the inane dialogue, plot holes, and stiff acting.\u00a0 I could almost deal with Jimmy&#8217;s character trait of solving every confrontation, whether he was involved or not, with\u00a0 showing off his martial arts skills (which are truly substantial) rather than speech.\u00a0 What I couldn&#8217;t deal with was the monotony.\u00a0 The effort put into the film was obvious, but it just didn&#8217;t get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>The flashbacks to Jimmy&#8217;s childhood were mostly well placed and even without dialogue (which I think was a good thing), managed to fill in the back story, even as it created one of the most annoying plot holes.\u00a0\u00a0 The major plot of the story was who killed Jimmy&#8217;s father, but during the flashbacks, we see that Jimmy witnessed his father&#8217;s murder (no, the guy wasn&#8217;t wearing a mask), yet the identity of the murderer is unknown (yes, he meets the man several times during the film).\u00a0 The characters were stereotypical and I found myself drawing parallels between them and characters from other films.\u00a0 At that point, I was thinking about other movies rather than paying attention to this one.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s partly due to the fact that this isn&#8217;t my genre preference, but I have to leave this to the drips and dregs at the bottom of the cup.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the worst movie I&#8217;ve ever seen and there might be something redeeming in it, really, but I didn&#8217;t find it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"mojodawn\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Fatal%20Deviation%20%281998%29%20-%20Film\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fatal Deviation&#8221; For movie information, follow this link. Jimmy Bennett returns to his hometown after 10 years in reform school.\u00a0 With the help of a Celtic Monk and a local beauty, he determines to find out who murdered his father.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,81,53],"tags":[14,49,139,59,86,58,85,23],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action","category-foreign-movies","category-independent-movies","tag-b-grades","tag-cheesy","tag-dregs","tag-foreign-films","tag-ireland","tag-low-budget","tag-martial-arts","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}