Green LanternDirected by Martin Campbell
Written by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg
Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard
Story: Hal Jordan is the first human selected to join the Green Lantern Core. His first mission is to stop the evil Parallax from destroying Earth.
Review: I think Green Lantern works as a comic book series, and would work as a television show, but not a two hour movie. It's an epic story that spans the entire universe. Cramming that much exposition into a summer blockbuster is an impossible task. I can see why they had four different writers. Nobody could make this work. It has no focus. Just like this blog. It introduces backstories that are pointless, romances that nobody cares about, and a big bad guy lifted from The Fifth Element. This movie was doomed before the cameras started rolling. There are some fun action sequences and some of the unexplored storylines would work better if they were given a proper amount of screen time.
Comparable Movies: More of a Superman, the world is going to end, type of superhero movie. Rather than a smaller, save the city type.
Rating: ** out of 5
If you're into superhero movies, you probably already saw it. If not, don't.
May the Force be with you,
CHUD
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