{"id":18123,"date":"2014-09-29T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18123"},"modified":"2015-12-19T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T15:22:58","slug":"envoy-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/envoy-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Envoy (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/E-N-V-O-Y.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/E-N-V-O-Y.jpg\" alt=\"E-N-V-O-Y\" width=\"654\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/E-N-V-O-Y.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/E-N-V-O-Y-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/E-N-V-O-Y-538x263.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For now, David Weinstein\u2019s \u201cEnvoy\u201d is really just \u201cIron Giant\u201d meets \u201cPredator,\u201d but I think with a wider scope and feature length, \u201cEnvoy\u201d could be so much more. The short film from director Weinstein acts simultaneously as a spec film for a more fully realized follow-up and I\u2019m anxious to see where he takes this premise. \u201cEnvoy\u201d feels like Weinstein took Spielberg, \u201cIron Giant,\u201d and The Zeta Project for one really good, but menacing science fiction adventure.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In it, young Kyle brings his big brother Jason out to the corn fields to show him a strange occurrence he\u2019s been dealing with for the last week. Insistent that every time he tosses a basket ball in to the corn field, the ball is thrown back, Jason watches in awe when his brother tosses the ball and it comes back. Even more amazing is what comes out of the corn field to discover who, or what, has been throwing the ball to it. The special effects matched with the design for the robot is incredible, allowing for a unique and very aerodynamic character that just screams cinematic icon.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many quirks and Easter eggs embedded in to the alien robot that it will take a feature film to explore them all, but for what we\u2019re able to see, clearly this is a beast prepared for war. And what we do know is that it has a general mercy towards innocent life, especially when the military begins a rampant assault, prompting the robot to protect his human playmates. \u201cEnvoy\u201d is an excellent science fiction short that deserves a big budget treatment. Director David Weinstein has a clear concept and premise in store for audiences, and \u201cEnvoy\u201d could be a brilliant genre picture. In its current form, \u201cEnvoy\u201d is just superbly directed, well acted, and garners a hell of a mesmerizing special effects treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For now, David Weinstein\u2019s \u201cEnvoy\u201d is really just \u201cIron Giant\u201d meets \u201cPredator,\u201d but I think with a wider scope and feature length, \u201cEnvoy\u201d could be so much more. The short film from director Weinstein acts simultaneously as a spec film for a more fully realized follow-up and I\u2019m anxious to see where he takes this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[58,71,310,501,865,906,938],"class_list":["post-18123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-e","tag-indie-film","tag-robots","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18125,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18123\/revisions\/18125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}