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A decent Super Hero movie

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2018

I was one of those people who liked this back when it was first released. I did not understand the intense hatred expressed for it. I thought it was a perfectly fine origin story for the Green Lantern. Recently watched it again with my 7 year old grandson and he liked it (so much that he went on to watch it two more times in two days). When I told him a lot of people DIDN'T like it, he also was confused as to why. When I said people didn't like stuff like the computer generated Lantern suit, he just shrugged it off.

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J.D. Contreras

GREEN LANTERN IS BLACK, SO WHY IS HE WHITE?!?!

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2021

This movie sucked! Green lantern is black! Not white! What a waste of film! Green Lantern was incredibly weak and dull in this wannabee action film. I'd rather watch re-runs of SHE-RA than this junk. No point, no plot, no nothing. Ryan Reynolds should be ashamed of himself after appearing in this trash. The CGI is AWFUL! Disney has better cartoons than this mess! Save your money and your time, this movie belongs in the trash. The only hero in this film is your EJECT button from your DVD player. OMG it's that awful, please save yourselves from this terrible mess. I can't even say enough about this garbage it's that boring and miserable.

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BurnedCustomer101

not bad, just bad writing (spoiler alert!)

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014

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In retrospect this movie probably got a lot of negative reviews because, like the first Captain America, most of the film is invested in explaining and exploring characters and their relationships to one another and does not deliver wit-laden explosions every 10 minutes. Frankly I think the movie didn't show enough; how do you master the will of the universe in just a few days? Hal should've been in training for a lot longer and his first arch-nemesis was simply too ambitious given the circumstances (for which you can blame the writers/producers). This first movie should have taken Hal to deep space for some lesser evil beside other members of the GLC before he was given a cosmic enemy the best of the best could not defeat. This is where the movie falls flat, it's just not plausible (he says about a comic book-based movie...).
That said, I really enjoyed this movie and where it takes Hal. It was cool to see Oa and the guardians, and as a fan of the 'verse I got a kick out of seeing Kilawog and pre-bat-shit-evil Sinestro. I'd really love to see a sequel, but I think DC and WB really screwed the pooch here and ruined any chance of that happening.
I would've given this 4 stars, but the boss fight was a crazy let down. =/

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Paradox Mind

Not that bad but, you may have a point.....

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2012

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I admit the Green Lantern movie was not great but it certainly didn't suck as much as Batman & Robin. Personally I was just stoked that the Green Lantern character would ever get a big budget movie so that for me was enough to watch it. I understand not every person is familiar with the character or grew up reading the comics so its hard to like the movie unless you are already somewhat of a fan.
Most people will agree that they did get some things right on for example, Mark Strong as Sinestro (Hell Yeah!) and yes Ryan Reynolds was a capitol choice for Hal Jordan. Other than those two pluses, I do think the movie crossed too many story lines for a first movie. Only dedicated fan boys can keep up with all of the mishmash that was going on.
They crossed at least 3 major story lines all in the first film and that to me was complete overkill. The Sinestro Corp War storyline was hinted at, The Parallax storyline was raped and abused into this film and the Hal Jordan origin story was rushed along in this film as well.
I totally think that Hugo Strange did not even need to be in this film. The Movie should've just focused on Hal Jordan, his origins and early days as the Green Lantern of Earth. The other story lines could be spread across a really nice trilogy that could've ended with the Parallax Saga. Overall I still could watch this again and I give the creators of this film at least 3 stars for the effort.

P.S. The Limited Edition Steel book of this movie is not worth it! Don't spend any extra cash just to have this thin, tinfoil case. You can get the 3D 4-disc version now much cheaper than the Steel book version. They need to stop calling them Steel books because now all they give us is tinfoil.

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mlbean7

Come on folks, it's not that bad.

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2019

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The movie version of the DC Comic book Green Lantern has received a lot of flack over the years. It doesn't help that the movie's lead actor Ryan Reynolds himself has been doing a lot of the roasting. In my opinion, this is not a bad movie. The plot is ok. The acting isn't bad. With the overwhelming amount of mediocre computer graphics, namely in the animation of the Green Lantern suits and alien beings....I'm sorry, where was I going with this? Ok, ok, after watching more than a few truly bad superhero movies, I can safely say that this is not the worst Green Lantern movie on the market today. Just watch it.

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Qvox

Sure it has it's flaws, but I liked the character, and story has potential.

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2019

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This is far from a "good" comic book movie, but it's worth a watch if this kind of movie appeals to you. I suggest you watch this version, which is the director's cut. It doesn't correct all the flaws in the movie, but it does fill a couple of huge holes in the theatrical release.

I liked the story and character and think this universe had legs. I'm sorry they're canned the potential franchise. It'll probably be resurrected in a couple of decades and tried again.

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Surprisingly Fun Romp

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2011

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I don't know why I listened to the critics and did not see this in the theater. The movie was not as deep as Iron Man 1 but still quite good. Ryan played a very young Hal and he did it well. My only complaint id that I just couldn't believe he had been in the air force. Blake played an okay Carol. She wasn't given much to work with though. And that is my primary complaint with the movie. The support characters, including the other lanterns were completely forgettable. I never even remember hearing the name of Gal's best friend. At least in Thor/Iron Man the support characters were brought to life and made interesting. If there is a sequel they need to make us care about Sinestro's fall. Maybe draw that out and focus on how Carol becoming a Star Sapphire affects the relationship with Hal. Anyway better than what I heard via word of mouth. 3.5/5 stars.

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Underground RebornTop Contributor: Star Wars

There is hope...

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2011

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In film DC Comics only brought us one too many versions of Superman & Batman. While a few other comic characters from this company have made it to film like `Watchmen' & `Hellblazer' Still, where are all the other popular DC characters? Our prayers were finally answered this summer with `Green Lantern'

First off, I am a huge Green Lantern fan. I love the story and I love the fact that a hero so simple can have such a deep complex life as well as a very deep story. This movie was huge, because the entire DC franchise was weighing it. Success would bring all the other major DC names to the big screen finally. Unfortunately, this film is not the greatest. The acting was not the greatest, but thank goodness Ryan Reynolds was able to do a decent job. Blake was not lively at all as Carol Ferris and Marc Strong who played Sinestro barley got any screen time. The other weakness of the film while it was strength to me was the story. The story of Green Lantern goes far beyond the ring, there is a whole world full of Green Lanterns that protect the entire universe and a story like that may not sit well with people whom have never read the comic and no nothing of the lore. Green Lantern fans will appreciate that aspect, but at the same time will not be entirely satisfied due to the subpar acting.

There is a great deal of potential for a sequel to be a better film, especially with the cliffhanger ending. The only problem is due to box office failure, there may not be another film. Still, `Green Lantern' is a fun film and I own it and after seeing it a second I still feel the same way. It is a fun film that the true fan will enjoy, with of potential to be better.

Again this is a horrible DVD and I blame it on Blu Ray, there are next to know decent special features and you can only get the extended edition on Blu Ray...shame shame.

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Nick D

Green Lantern Is... Green Lantern

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2011

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The recent resurgence in superhero movies has tended to be characterized by less campy, less over the top, more grounded story telling.

The challenge Thor had was that it had to deal with the inherent silliness of a rainbow bridge to Asgard. Green Lantern is saddled with a pink bad guy, Kilowog and all the other silliness of the Green Lantern Corps plus a hero who can be beaten by, uh, yellow? That's not in any way the movie's fault - just the huge hill of credibility it has to climb.

Given that it was going to be a little silly anyway, they got Ryan Reynolds. I actually like Ryan and would throw handfuls of cash at Marvel if they'd just let him do Deadpool right (the Wolverine Origins version was just a terrible missed opportunity). The problem is a silly premise with an actor just adding more silly results in... silly.

If you want to do a silly comic book character, let him be Deadpool. Let him break that fourth wall. Let him talk straight to the audience. Let him go nuts. Let him use impeccable yet utterly crazy logic. Reynolds would be amazing as Deadpool. As Hal Jordan? You miss the slim chance you ever had to take the silliness of the core plot points of Green Lantern and create a strong modern comic book movie.

It's not a terrible movie. Let it be what it is and it's quite enjoyable. But it'll never be a Dark Knight or an Avengers, it'll never be Spiderman or even the reboot. It'll just be two hours of harmless silliness and a nagging sense of missed opportunities.

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Katie60

Digital Copy

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019

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This video states it has a digital copy of the movie, however it is not possible to access this feature. If you want the movie but don't care about the digital copy, then buy it, otherwise pass. This problem is becoming a regular problem for me. I always buy new if it is offered and this problem is happening on allegedly new videos.

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Beth Smith

The bottom on our list of Super Hero Movies

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012

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We love super hero movies. We've seen them all. I have two boys, so that is what I have watched as my boys have grown up (now 9 and 13) instead of Princess movies. I am disgusted with the language at the beginning of this movie and I don't think this movie is near as well made as the other movies. My boys didn't even ask for us to buy it. I bought it on Lightning deals because it was 1.97 and My older son may watch it with me one more time, but for the most part it won't get watched very much. I was disgusted with the language in X-men first class sprayed unneccessarily throughout as well.

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thomas e haggerty

don't waste your money on the 3d version!

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2013

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This in my opinion a very good movie.I seen it in standard definition 1st and loved it so when I seen it was available in 3d I was excited to see how good the graphics were.The best way I can describe my disappointment is this.Through the entire movie I kept checking the 3d settings to see if it got turned off.This title has the potential for being an awesome 3d movie like the avengers if you could actually tell it was 3d.Anyway it is a really good movie and you should buy it in standard definition but don't waste your money on 3d cause its just not there:(

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