Green Lantern
Green Lantern has to be one of the silliest films released this year. Yet another entry added to the Juggernaut of comic book adaptations, the ‘Lantern'is perhaps one of the most heavily CGI enhanced films yet released.
The opening of the film is introduced by Geoffrey Rush’s instantly recognisable tones as he does a bit of exposition on what on earth (or should that be space?) the Green Lantern core is. Basically the film revolves around our hero Hal Jordan (played very earnestly by Ryan Reynolds) inheriting a magic ring from a dying alien. This ring gives Jordan the power to control his will into anything he imagines – I would definitely have fun with that. Battles with an evil alien entity ensue and there is a disturbing moment when it looks like Jordan is beating up Stephen Hawking in the latter part of the film.
There is the now familiar glare of product placement encroaching on some of the audience’s senses as adverts for best worldwide sim card and cell phones pop up every now and then. It’s not as bad as in Bond films, but it is enough to make you sit up and drift away from the plot every now and then.
Green Lantern is designed for the under twelve crowd. It makes no apologies for that and for that reason it shouldn’t be completely derided by the critics. Reviews posted on IMDB seem to seesaw from one end of the scale to the other which is fairly accurate. This is a story written by big kids for kids (and other big kids). Go in knowing that, and you’ll have a blast. Go in expecting a modern masterpiece and you will be sadly disappointed.
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