![]() You want to blame the editors or the writers or Campbell or the actors, but truly there's enough blame to go around. None of it makes much sense within or without the fabric of the picture, ultimately, as Green Lantern fights evil-I-mean-Fear, gets hurt arbitrarily, doesn't get hurt arbitrarily, wins, loses, gets girl, loses girl. He's the not-exactly-conduit to Parallax (voiced by Clancy Brown), who in one wholly inappropriate but still boring sequence "eats" a few dozen civilians running from an odd but probably unintentional 9/11 reference. Hammond turns into Rocky Dennis by way of Dr. As Hal questions whether he can save the planet with his new powers, Dr. Oh, and his dad is played by Tim Robbins. Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), who is infected with Fear!, making him telepathic and able to throw bullies around when he gets mad. It's no wonder that DC was always Marvel's weak sister, huh? Green Lantern also has a mask Hal's girlfriend Carol (Lively) sees right through in the movie's only mildly vibrant scene, and an arch-enemy in Dr. The Power of Will!, with a very non-Nietzschian, non-masculine (let's face it) ring and matching radioactive lunchbox that clothe him in an airbrushed suit, gift him with flight, and allow him to produce energy versions of giant green fists. Yes indeed, to tide you over, here's Ryan Reynolds as test pilot Hal Jordan, given access to The Power Galactic, a.k.a. I didn't think I'd see a movie this bad before Transformers: Euphemism for Asshole docks next month. Worse, Green Lantern's threat to go the ambiguous, Dark Knight, fight-fear-with-fear route fails to materialize in the loudest possible way with an unintentionally-hilarious nonsense soliloquy delivered before a council of detached Kuato. ![]() It's no wonder, really, that the bad guy in this one is a giant mess of cosmic goo called "Parallax": the picture jumps around from one point-of-view to another with no sense to bridge the turbid gulfs between them. There's just so much empowerment going on in this thing, and unresolved daddy issues that are raised without any clue as to how to parallel the dysfunction in the characters or honour what is fast turning out to be this year's driving thematic force. Cool? Cool if your concept of cool is The Last Starfighter as written by Tony Robbins. It's a mess, a boring mess, featuring boring Ryan Reynolds in a skin-tight green super suit (and not-boring Blake Lively, not) trying to "grow up" and accept the responsibility of becoming an intergalactic Dudley Do-Right-a titular "Green Lantern," which in the DC UNIVERSE parlance apparently means that you say crap about will being stronger than fear and manifest a giant Matchbox race set as the best way to save a crashing helicopter. Screenplay by Greg Berlanti & Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenbergīy Walter Chaw Martin Campbell's Green Lantern is just awful. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins
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