Green Lantern (2011)

I watched this film in the cinemas, I honestly thought it was great. Days after, I thought hard, and my review had downgraded.The film's acting and story was great. And so was the CGI. Maybe it was used almost too much, but it still looked amazing. As many others would agree, the script wasn't very good and the humour was weak.Green Lantern is a solid film, it deserves a watc

The movie starts with a CG background science fiction origins of Green Lantern. The power of the Green Lantern is given to those who do not know fear. Parallax is introduced as the evil force which is "fear." As a Green Lantern lays crashed he releases his Green Lantern ring (force) to someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word "fear." Clearly that is Hal Jordon (Ryan Reynolds) who thinks he is Tom Cruise in "Top Gun" as he defeats 2 High tech pilot-less air craft by using a maneuver from Ironman.The movie spends a lot of time building background and lays the foundation for a multiple sequels. This is mostly an introduction of the character.While the Green Lantern is flying around impressing his former gf, mad scientist and son of a senator, Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard) has been experimenting by injecting himself with microbes, which happen to be alien, creating the super villain for our super hero. They spent a ton of money on special effects. The ring may never make a mistake, but the casting director did. They should have gone the extra expense to get some real box office stars. Ryan Reynolds didn't hack it.No sex, no nudity, and no F-bombs. Good for kids.

******May Contain Spoilers First off I was very thrilled that they finally brought this character to the big screen. I had probably waited longer for this comic book character to get a Big Budget movie made more than any other Superhero character. This is my favorite Superhero. So when I learned they were making this movie, I could hardly contain myself.Now, the movie. I'D Like to say first, that I don't think this movie as bad as the critics said it was. It's actually an enjoyable movie. . . Now with that said, let also say that although its not bad, I was expecting this to be so much better than it is.I felt they used too much CGI, at times I felt almost like I was watching a cartoon. I wasn't crazy about the villain, it looked like he was fighting a Smog Monster. That entire last fight sequence seemed a bit anti-climatic to me, and I feel could have been done much better. Also felt like the movie needed more action. I would have like to have seen the Green Lantern do more crime fighting on Earth after he made himself known to the public. I think it would have been great to see the Green Lantern thwart a bank robbery, stop a runaway train full of passengers(stuff like that - Afterall, don't we go to see Superhero movies to see Superheros do Superhero things?) There was some positives I took from this movie. I liked Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan (when I first saw that he got this role, I had doubts- He pulled it off very well)...Mark Strong as Sinestro was Superb!Blake Lively was good in her role. All the actors did fine. Another positive I took from this was the Musical Score which also superb. There are certain aspects of this movie that were done extremely well.I would still recommend this movie, its a good popcorn muncher. I have heard that Warner Brothers is still planning a sequel but with a different director and wants the sequel to much darker than this film was. That could be a good thing, also could be a bad thing.. . but there hasn't been any movement on that front since Green Lantern came out on DVD. So who knows if the sequel will get made or not.

After watching wonder woman and reviewing the seasons of the dctv shows I found this film and decided maybe it was worth a second chance, but this film is bad to say the least. The premise of the film sees reckless pilot hal Jordan become a member of an intergalactic police keeping core. Ryan Reynolds plays hal Jordan in this film and he really does his best with what he is given. He is pretty charismatic and has a sense of charm about him that makes him pretty likable. However, I feel like he relies too heavily on the comedy and he doesn't have much character to him. Mark strong plays sinestro in this film and does a really good job as Jordan's mentor, he is the usual tough character that he is and I enjoyed his performance. But the rest of the characters are pretty weak, I felt like Blake lively as carol Ferris was a weak love interest and they didn't really have great chemistry together. Peter saarsgard is in this film and I just didn't like his performance, his character is over the top and there really isn't much development for him. I liked some of the other lanterns but they were really underutilized and I kind of wish they could have been involved in the whole film. Similar to Galactus in f4 rise of the silver surfer the villain parallax is completely ridiculous and the awful CGI makes it laughable. The story has a decent coming of age story as you see hal develop pretty well as a character throughout the film and I did like his character progression. However, this film tries to cram too much into it's story and it really feels jumbled at times and certain story arcs get ignored for sometimes the whole movie. The script has nothing special too it, the dialogue really doesn't help the characters as they come across as ridiculous throughout the film. The style of this film is notorious for its terrible CGI, the villain parallax, the green lantern costume and the lantern planet oa all look pretty terrible which carries over for the action scenes. Overall this is a pretty bad comic book film that really should be forgotten and hopefully the intended reboot is a lot better.