Green Lantern

Welcome back to After the Credits. Tonight I had the pleasure of going to see Green Lantern and was pleasantly surprised to find out that "Steel" is still the worlds worst comic book movie. Green Lantern was directed by Martin Campbell, the very man who also brought us a couple of Zorro movies, a few James Bond flicks and 2010's Edge of Darkness. With a pretty decent list of titles under his belt, I only wonder one thing, how did he get roped into this ball of cheese whiz? These are my seconds after conclusion thoughts and reflections.

First off, Green Lantern is staring none other than Ryan Reynolds (Definitely, Maybe), in my opinion, one of the best up-in-coming actors who is not just a talented actor, but a skilled on screen personality. His leading lady in this movie, Carol Farris, is played by Blake Lively (hottie, Accepted), only this time she is a brunette (hotter as a blond). Following these on screen lovebirds we have a star studded cast including Tim Robbins (random Senator),Angela Bassett (random doctor), Michael Clarke Duncan (Kilowog, a Green Lantern CGI version of himself), Peter Sargaard (Robbins's son/evil doctor), and last but not least we have Mark Strong as Sinestro (one of the good guys, for now).

The movie opens up with a beginning monolog describing the history of the Green Lantern Corp. and the creation of their planet Oa (not as horribly done as many people have said). We all know the story, Hal Jordan is a fighter jet pilot and is the first human ever chosen to wear the ring and become a Green Lantern. What you might not know is that in this movie everyone seems to have either a daddy issue, a God complex or both. The basic story line goes as followed, Hal loves Carol but is afraid, becomes a Green Lantern but is afraid, wants to help out humanity but is afraid, gets a little kiss from a hot girl and all of a sudden is good to go, the end. My favorite part was the ending, not because it ended, but because he dispatched the bad guy in a pretty cool way.

In a mere hour and forty five minutes Green Lantern managed to fill itself to the brim with cheesy dialogue and an occasional comedic save from Reynolds. The CGI was pretty good, but at times it was really cartoonish, probably because of the 3D (yes I went to the 3D showing, I didn't feel like waiting an hour and a half for the next 2D showing). There are a few different versions of the Green Lantern in the comic books and the movie follows one that I forgot about. Hal Jordan uses the rings power to create objects like guns, fighter jets, and yes, a giant RC car track. This at times was a bit to digest with the "seriousness" of the script, but not horrible.

As you can see I have given Green Lantern a 2 on the Willis scale. This means I liked it, but would probably advise you to wait until Netflix or Redbox. It was entertaining and funny, the CGI wasn't the worst, but could have been better, and the effect of using the rings power was pretty cool. There is a clip about half way through the ending credits (if I could figure it out before it happened then I'm sure you could to). That will do it for this installment of After the Credits, tune (click) in next time for more movie reviewing goodness, probably Transformers 3.