Green Lantern (2011)

Well I didn't know any history of the Green Lantern before seeing this so was able to go into this film without any sort of expectations, which is nice when it's a film with so much history.

This stars Ryan Reynolds and other actors (resses) that I'd not heard off - Blake Lively and Mark Strong.

Now personally, I couldn't see any problems with Ryan Reynolds. Voted sexiest man of the year 2010, I couldn't see there would be any issues with him as the starring role.


In short Hal Jordan is chosen as a member of the Green Lantern Corp, an intergalatic guard against evil. Turns out he's also the first human to be chosen as a Green Lantern.


Of course the other Green Lanterns aren't impressed and he heads off back to Earth pretty defeated by the happenings.


Now not to give too much of the storyline away, there's a planet eating force that feeds of fear and it's heading for Earth.


As for the film itself, I wasn't impressed at all with the introduction. THe first few minutes of the film, where the back story is explained to us all, are animated. Not a good animated, but something that would feel right at home on Cartoon Network and not that worthy of a big screen production. What made this worse for me was the fact that some of the characters in the introduction are portrayed later in the film and they look all normal.


Along with the awful quality of the animated opening, there are points in the film where the special effects are appauling. It does sometimes seem that no real thought or attention to detail were thought on.

Apart from these moments, the film is a good film. If you're looking for something entertaining, where you don't need to think about a lot, or need to work out what's happening - then go see this.


Some more action scenes would have been nice, but it's satisfying what you do get.


I give this 3 / 5.


PS - there is a little snippet during the credits clearing making way for a sequel.