{"id":2327022,"date":"2026-03-13T20:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2327022"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:07:27","slug":"the-gates-review-mason-gooding-and-james-van-der-beek-star-in-a-thriller-without-thrills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-gates-review-mason-gooding-and-james-van-der-beek-star-in-a-thriller-without-thrills\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Gates\u2019 Review: Mason Gooding and James Van Der Beek Star in a Thriller Without Thrills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It\u2019s always a red flag when a movie begins with the main character waving a gun around, covered in blood, and then it cuts to a title card saying \u201cEight Hours Earlier,\u201d or anything to that effect. Sure, it sounds like an intriguing way to open a film but more often than not \u2014 much, much, much more often \u2014 it\u2019s a sign that the first act was boring and desperately needed to be goosed up. The film isn\u2019t telling the audience \u201cgood news, the thrills are coming,\u201d it\u2019s saying \u201cbad news, it\u2019s gonna be a long wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33303521\/\">The Gates<\/a>\u201d opens with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2864252\/\">Mason Gooding<\/a> waving a gun around,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a red flag when a movie begins with the main character waving a gun around, covered in blood, and then it cuts to a title card saying \u201cEight Hours Earlier,\u201d or anything to that effect. Sure, it sounds like an intriguing way to open a film but more often than not \u2014 much, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2327023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2327022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018The-Gates-Review-Mason-Gooding-and-James-Van-Der-Beek.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327024,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327022\/revisions\/2327024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}