John’s Movie Musings

“In brightest day, in darkest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power…Green Lantern’s LIGHT!”

Green Lantern is a story about a pilot, Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), who is chosen to be the newest Lantern for the intergalactic group of peace keepers, the Green Lantern Corps. In order to save Earth from Parallax, a fear consuming creature, Jordan must harness the power of the Ring, which can only be done through strength of character and willpower.

Unfortunately for Hal Jordan and for those of us who unwittingly paid $7.50 a ticket, Greg Berlanti, Michael Green (both known for their writing on Everwood, yuck) and other writers ruined this summers unexpected streak of pretty decent comic book made into film adaptations. The ‘power of Green Lantern’s light’ has regrettably been used as a force of evil under the direction of Martin Campbell (The Mask of Zorro, Casino Royale, Edge of Darkness) and these so called writers and I fear for their future projects.

Starting this summer of right was: Thor (from the Avengers), having grossed around $2.4m and given a 77% rating on Rottentomatoes.com, it had some amazing CGI and a plot that all viewers could enjoy. X-Men: First Class followed weeks later and despite the negative hype it blew viewers away and renewed the faith of many fanboys and girls. Grossing around $24.1m puttomg this comic recreation on the top of the charts, but, Alas! the pleasure couldn’t last.

Green Lantern was a shoddy piece of work and as a student and lover of film I am disgusted by the lack of direction and cohesion of this film. It was like the actors decided that delivering their lines was unimportant and the editors obviously thought for some reason they could do a half-ass job of putting it all together. In the end it resulted in a catastrophe for all involved and that doesn’t even include some of the worst CGI I have ever seen.

The only redeeming quality in this film is the fact that we get to see Ryan Reynolds walk around in his knickers a portion of the time. Of course, if I really wanted to see that I could watch more than a few of his previous films in order to enjoy that lovely view.

I give this film a big C- and my heartfelt disapproval.

Grade: C-