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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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Mathew

This movie sucked! The best thing here is some alien costumes and the CGI team.

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2021

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The good:
CGI, alien humanoids, spaceships

The bad:
The Characters: Everyone is white, like not gonna judge but... facts.
Character Development: I'm a fighter pilot, now I'm a super hero, Look at my hot babe, time to beat the bad guy!
Plot: Good Aliens and Bad Aliens... Good aliens need human green lantern help to defeat bad aliens.
Music: You will find better music coming out of your average junior college.

Not much too like here.. didn't even finish the movie... made it about 3/4 and lost interest.

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Emerald Bomb - 'Green Lantern' Proves Beyond Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2011

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I discovered Hal Jordan/Green Lantern on the animated "Challenge of the Super Friends" in the late 1970's. At the time, Harrison Ford (circa 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back") was my perfect choice for Green Lantern's live-action movie adaptation. In June 2011, Warner Bros. & DC Comics finally release a Green Lantern film, leaving audiences to settle for Ryan Reynolds as the title character. Of available actors, either he or, better yet, Chris Pine were arguably the best known options. Reynolds subsequently fails to impress in an estimated $300 million production (upon factoring in all the promotional costs). His shallow efforts are further deep-sixed by an awful script and gaudy CGI special effects imbuing this vastly disappointing film with all the aura of an overblown video game.

Director Martin Campbell seemed a logical, slam-bang choice to initiate "Green Lantern" into a super-hero film franchise. Having seen his high octane efforts reviving Zorro (with Antonio Banderas & Catherine Zeta-Jones) and James Bond twice (with Pierce Brosnan and later Daniel Craig), Campbell normally has a knack of capturing sleek, inspired performances from his actors. This time, though, Campbell's cast offers a collective sleepwalking job, as I've seen Green Lantern cartoons with better acting. Additional sabotage comes from this movie's lackluster script incoherently blending elements from various Green Lantern storylines, which leaves its target PG-13 audience to only undemanding viewers in the 12-25 crowd.

The film immediately stumbles into a "Battlestar Galactica"-like voice-over prologue by explaining far too much too soon. Eerily enough, actor Geoffrey Rush's voice-over even mimics Patrick Macnee's voice from "Galactica." Without revealing crucial spoilers, the filmmakers should have saved vital revelations about planet Oa's existence and the Green Lantern Corps for a proposed sequel. There wasn't enough screen time to sufficiently develop Parallax, Hector Hammond, and even Sinestro into villains all in one film. Although the game plan was to set up the franchise with an awesome Green Lantern vs. Sinestro sequel, the combination of such a crummy script with an over-abundance of obviously fake CGI makes for a dreadful viewing experience. If the film had plausibly focused on a raw, mysterious origin (where rookie Hal desperately believes he is the only Green Lantern vs. imminent cosmic destruction), the end result could have been immensely better. In fairness, the movie's best asset is the inclusion of reliable actors in various supporting roles: i.e. the late Michael Clarke Duncan, Geoffrey Rush, Clancy Brown, Angela Bassett, Jay O. Sanders, Jon Tenney, and Tim Robbins. Unfortunately, the mind-numbing plot gives them familiar characters (i.e. Kilowog, Tomar-Re, Amanda Waller, Abin Sur, and the Jordan family) with so little to do.

This film's worst offense, ultimately, is its flagrant pushing of CGI to hide how crummy the movie really is. Case in point: the ultra-fake opening sequence depicting outer space is flat-out laughable. An immediate sense that this movie is in deep trouble continues as even Hal & Carol's jets flying over the California desert is just another helping of CGI. Utilizing some models (or even recycling stock footage of real "Top Gun" jets) would have been far more credible. It doesn't take long before viewers will realize they are watching actors lazily going through the green-screen motions, treating "Green Lantern" merely as a paycheck movie. As this cast carelessly fails to sell viewers on suspending total disbelief, the film's over-reliance on CGI becomes sadly apparent. Hence, the film squanders an enormous optical effects budget resulting in nothing more real than an emerald fireworks show.

Considering the insane amount of money Warner Bros already lost on this movie, the planned 2020 reboot makes sense, provided there are four HUGE conditions: 1. Hire a compatible director (someone who actually grasps why a fearless Hal Jordan (or John Stewart) is Green Lantern; 2. Get the right Hal (perhaps Garrett Hedlund) or John (maybe Michael Jai White); 3. The cast must provide inspired, high-caliber efforts; and 4. Far more attention is focused on an intelligent script first rather than simply gambling it all on CGI.

I lucked out skipping the theater experience by later finding the blu-ray at a cheap price. If only once, my young son and I could be kids together gleefully seeing my favorite childhood super-hero come to life. I just wish this "Green Lantern" film had met more than just a fraction of its vast potential. Instead, "Green Lantern" is really a second coming of Ben Affleck's dreadful 2003 Daredevil movie (including Reynolds' smug, Affleck-like performance).

Rating: 4/10 (Updated in August 2015).

Note: There are two gruesome scenes inside a secret laboratory in the film's second half that I would advise not letting children see -- parents will know when they watch the film.

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Green Schlock

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2019

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Don't invest too much energy and you won't be disappointed. Cheesy effects, bad editing, hackneyed and dated writing. It looks too much like an actual comic for a film, almost in that '60s Batman tongue-in-cheek way, but not enough to pull it off as a stylistic choice. It also has something of a formulaic '80s feel to it - those terrible, unreal looking, overlit close ups over sweeping backgrounds! - without seeming to have any awareness of doing so. I can't believe this is actually a somewhat recent film.

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Simon Jester

Boring

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2021

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I had really low expectations and was let down. The movie is just exposition scene after exposition scene. Everything just drags on. The acting is admirable, given the terrible writing but I wouldn't recommend this movie to even the most die hard comic book movie fanatic. Hard pass.

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Russell Keller

I enjoyed this A LOT more than I was expecting.

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2011

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When I saw the Trailers and clips on TV promoting this one I couldn't get over the CGI looking so terrible. I think I figured that part out though, CGI just comes across as cartoonish with bright primary colors. It's why the Hulk 2003 who was bright green looked so bad, while the 2008 Hulk was a dark green and came across much better. The CGI in this was actually outstanding IMHO, except for using primary colors in CGI it's like trying to keep a white car clean, it just accentuates the problems.

The Story and Action were far better than expected but the insecurities and play boy nature of Hal did stray from the character a bit, that was one of the problems of going with a character like Hal since he was so dull, would have been better off telling Kyle or John Stuart's back-story. Still I probably would have given it 4 stars but the way Warner is screwing people who wanted to PAY MORE MONEY and support them it's gotta get knocked down a bit, I hate doing that but I feel I have too.

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Capt'n Bub

Green poop

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2014

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If you are a baby boomer then this may disappoint you. I recall when we loved Superman, Batman, and others. Green Lantern was at the top of the list. He was not only a super hero but he was "cool". And, they did not print many comics with him like Superman. So, we had to wait which made us anxious. This Hal was goofy and kid like. It never really touched the deeper more driven Hal Jordon. Plus, when the evil entity was on the destroying spree, the most powerful Green Lanterns in the entire universe could not destroy it. It took Hal, the dumb backward worth nearly nothing earthing say five minutes to dispatch the evil one. Lame!!!

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Shawn Ryan

Skip it

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2019

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My girlfriend made me rent this movie and now I might have to break up with her.

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Gil Michelini

Lost Potential

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2021

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If this had been an episode and a half of season 1 of Green Lantern, it would have been good but as a stand alone movie, this is awful.

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There's nothing new I could add to this that hasn't been said.

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013

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This movie is... meh for lack of a better word. It really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it certainly wasn't good, which is what I was expecting.

As someone who does NOT follow the Green Lantern comics, I thought the movie was "accessible" but that's not necessarily a good thing. I just wasn't sold on Ryan Reynolds being the Green Lantern, nothing the hero did really 'qualified' him to be a ring bearer. In fact, probably the most interesting character was Sinestro and he's only in a few scenes. There were also a few plot inconsistencies which were very blatant. For instance...

Why does Hal Jordan fly back to the lantern homeworld, to ask them to fight for Earth, get rejected, and then say fine let me be the one to fight for Earth by myself. Instead of wasting time flying back he should have went to fight Parallax and be done with it.

Also, the over use of CG was ridiculous, to the point that I got annoyed everytime Hal put on the green mask. It looked so damn fake, everything about it looked awful. The CG for the homeworld was pretty and some of the lantern stuff was cool, but holy crap, the suits looked terrible. This was an instance where the movie should have used more practical effects than CG effects.

Overall, don't watch this movie, you will leave feeling unchanged and indifferent.

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snow47

For Me, Only Valuable as a Novelty/Curiosity

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2013

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This film has many problems. It is not utterly horrible, but for those of us looking forward to a truly good or even great Green Lantern film, that is nowhere to be found here. I would say that this one is good to have around for kids to watch, but be warned, the villain in this film is one of the most terrifying in any mainstream comic book-based movie that I have seen,

As far as specifics - and bearing in mind that this is only my opinion - Ryan Reynolds is unable to play a convincingly serious Hal Jordan. He is simply miscast in this role. But he is not helped by the script and direction of this film, which tries to be a little too lighthearted for its own good. The rest of the cast is fairly decent (Mark Strong as Sinestro is fantastic), but their parts are in most cases not written very well, which feeds back into the screenplay as a whole. It should have been a lot better than this.

Finally, the visual effect are in many places appallingly cheap-looking for such an expensive, high-concept film. The power ring constructs look good (aside from often being goofy in form), but the scenes on Oa are horribly low-budget-looking. Perhaps too much time was spent rendering the CGI costumes? In my estimation anyway, said costumes were a waste of visual effects energy. I could go on, but suffice it to say, this film is a missed opportunity on several levels. Interesting to watch, but not worth buying or getting your expectations up for.

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