Green Lantern

    Green Lantern
    2011

    Synopsis

    For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.

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    Cast

    • Ryan ReynoldsHal Jordan / Green Lantern
    • Blake LivelyCarol Ferris
    • Peter SarsgaardHector Hammond
    • Mark StrongSinestro
    • Tim RobbinsSenator Hammond
    • Angela BassettDr. Amanda Waller
    • Taika WaititiTom Kalmaku
    • Temuera MorrisonAbin Sur
    • Michael Clarke DuncanKilowog (voice)
    • Geoffrey RushTomar-Re (voice)

    Recommendations

    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Serves up all the requisite elements with enough self-deprecating humor to suggest it doesn't take itself too seriously.
    • 60

      Variety

      An attempt to infuse an earnest piece of comicbook lore with an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek sensibility yields decidedly mixed results in Green Lantern.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      Reynolds makes Hal a perfectly functional comic-book hero, but there's a big difference between functional and super.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      Martin Campbell, though a capable director of action (Hal's training session with the Michael Clarke Duncan-voiced Kilowog is proof of that), doesn't have a poet's instincts.
    • 40

      Time Out

      Whenever this Lantern returns to terra firma (too often), its imaginative flights are ground down under the Warners overlords' demographic-pandering heels.
    • 40

      Village Voice

      The film never rewards the viewer for even trying to keep track of what is going on. So you give up, and instead try to grab on to the small pleasures, which momentarily distract from the fact that the narrative is nonsensical, the characters so boilerplate that their every action seem preordained from the earliest frames, even as the action on-screen is often incoherent.
    • 40

      Boxoffice Magazine

      The film, released in both 2D and 3D, delivers lots of freshly minted CGI'd action (eventually) but none of it grabs you. There's just something too synthetic about the whole enterprise - it's fantasy tipped over into fakery.
    • 38

      Orlando Sentinel

      Well, Green Lantern isn't "Jonah Hex" bad. But it's silly enough to be part of the same "silliest Warner Brothers comic book summer movies of all time" conversation.

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