Green Lantern

   Green Lantern, a series about an in animate object that happens to be the color green. thanks for reading the review and have fun at the movies.....
 
 
   Ok apparently im not allowed to say that, For those of us who are not familiar of the series, here is a quick summed up by the general mythos which exists. Alien crashes on earth; dying he chooses the human who acts like the biggest ass on the planet who turns out to have the potential to be the greatest hero in space. he becomes a space cop who fights evil on a daily basis using a ring that can make constructs from his imagination. 
 
   With that being said, as a comic movie and as a personal reader of the comic book industry I come in with a low expectation that it will not be very accurate to the comics as that can be plain to a person who has seen the costumes on the posters. But having seen it in 3D, I can say it was a great movie. 

Story

 
     While I won't dwell too much on this section this would be the part that many would find important. This story seems to be its own break off from the Geoff Johns run of secret origins, while not exactly the same, There are a number of differences which would make sense in its own right. 
 
    The main focus would obviously be Hal jordan, and this role was wonderfully done as Ryan Reynolds. I held reserve for reynolds on the role mainly he has had some bad comic movie parts before (blade trinity). Reynolds captures the essense of Hal Jordan almost to a tea. He is arrogant when he covers his fear, and has many witty remarks, but he is only as good as his supporting cast.
 
    Mark Strong: Wow... i mean wow, This man made me believe he was sinestro, arrogant but acts as if he has full belief in what he does. He really inspired the Corp and me, and I was not even in the movie. Though he does not make too much of a scene in this movie his role is still crucial none the less. But give best supporting actor award to Mark Strong though.
 
   Blake Lively: gorgeous actress, she is beautiful but unfortunately outside of a love interest I never really thought of her in the sense of a main character in the story. Its only at the end when her role as major support to help jordan over come his fear that really makes Lively shine as an actress.

Visuals

 
    3D as visuals make the constructs looks amazing. The constructs were not gimmicks in anyway for the movie but made you feel that it was something out of a comic if not more than what a comic could provide. just to see construct battles between the lanterns jordan and kilowog. (ha! poozer)
 
     As the movie progresses the 3D effects become faint and you don't really notice it as your just watching the characters the entire time and taking in the story. and thats probably where it hits a snag. In the Green Hornet movie it was the same where they utilized 3D effects in the beginning and it dies down until the end. at one point in the movie I took off my glasses in the middle of the movie and noticed the view was normal in certain scenes.  So if anything all the 3D effects are meant for the corp.

Overall

 
  its a great movie, I mean its not comic accurate but we should all know by now Hollywood will never stay true to a comic. the general masses have a hard time just picking up 1 comic as it is. But it is an overall fun movie. Their is comedy, drama, mainly action, and depth to the DC universe itself.
 
  For the Green Lantern fans: What can i say that won't spoil anything for you. not much outside of the fact that you will enjoy all the small things that DC tried to do for all of us fans. We get glimpses of our favorite corp members outside of Sodam Yat, or Arisia, but still a fantastic thing for a person like me to see Kilowog or Stel on screen. 
 
   So thats my review, its a great movie that many people should see though i would recommend that you stay after the credits to see what i think really made the movie in the end.  obviously it is meant for the sequel.

Having read the review posted by Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, and having seen the movie myself, I must respectfully disagree with his view on the topic. 
 
I do believe that Green Lantern will be one of the movies to beat this summer.  I went into this move with my doubts, and my expectations were not so high.  But lets start with my history with this character.  Green Lantern was the very first comic book I've read, and since then I've always been hooked, so for me the expectations of what I wanted to see as a die hard GL fan were pretty high.

This movie exceeded every expectation I had for a "true" Green Lantern movie.  Sure there were some changes to the base storyline, but (unlike ANY X-Men movie) it remained TRUE to the core of the story. 

The opening dialogue gives you a very good and brief summary of exactly what the Green Lantern Corps is.  Do they change the origin of certain key characters?  Yes, does it take too much away from the core of what Hal Jordan Green Lantern is? No.

Having a movie about a human being that gets drafted into an intergalactic police force I wanted, no almost demanded scenes in space, and most specifically there had to be scenes on Oa, or this would not be a Green Lantern movie at all.  There have been various "Secret Origins" for Hal, and I do feel this one attempted to pull from all of them.  Was there balance between the Oa and Earth scenes, perhaps not, but they fit, and didn't seem to bog the story down for me at all.

My biggest concern was the casting of Ryan  Reynolds as Hal Jordan.  I as a die hard Hal Jordan fan wanted somebody, anybody else in the role.  And I must admit I was mistaken in my concerns (One must note I will never admit to being that "W" word).  The characterization, and acting by Ryan as Hall was to my enjoyment spot on how I pictured it to be. Did they spend too little time on the training sequences?  Maybe, but one must remember in the comics they showed about 15 single panels of Hal training before he returned to Earth. I think the training scenes were well fit, and I was especially please with the interaction between Hal and Sinestro.

In Tom's review he mentions that he has issues with Hal going from struggling to use the ring to becoming an expert, and yet in the newly revamped Secret Origin (Which Tom seems set in stone on) Hal was the first Green Lantern to ever use his ring to affect a yellow object.  In the Comics Hal's training period was 90 days.  (The same 90 days he spent in jail for DUI)  And in the Revised Secret Origin it seemed even shorter.  Again this movie seemed to pull from various Origin stories, one of which a GL was not required to "earn his badge".  Even in the comics Hal has been shown, being one of the newest GL's to do things other GL's thought or said were impossible.  Affecting a yellow object, he was the first GL to charge his ring directly from the central battery.  Even in the 80's Emerald Dawn stories, he defeated a foe that had struck down countless members of the corps.  Hal in the comics has shown an ability to reach unheard of levels of skill with the ring in a short amount of time, so this aspect of the movie didn't bother me.

Hal and Sinestro.  Again, depending on what Origin story you read, in the original origin Sinestro was banished from the Corps before Hal was a member.  In the 80's he was an antagonistic secondary trainer to Kilowog (Which I think is where this movie pulls from).  and then you get the new Secret Origin rewrite where they were "Buddies" which I never really bought to begin with.  This version of Sinestro was much more true to the comic version than I could have hoped for.

I was amazed by the cast!  to me it seemed spot on accurate.  Blake's Carol was Amazing!

The only flaw I see with this movie is the standard we seem to be getting with comic movies these days.  One hero... Two villains.  WHY?  Since Batman returns this seems to have been the mold and I truly think someone needs to find this mold and shatter it to pieces! Parralex (And I love how they imply that Parralex is Krona) would have made a fitting villain all by himself, without using Hector as an "Avatar".
 
All in all as a die hard GL fan, this movie was everything I have ever hoped for in a GL movie (with the exception of the aforementioned two bad guy thing).  I highly recommend going to see it, and I will be buying it when it is released on DVD.
 
OH, and stay after the credits!

Although it sounds weird I think the perfect examination of the Green Lantern film was that it was too long But too short, (I said it sounds weird). It seems the film is stretched out a lot yet when it comes to the important parts (e.g. the ending) it was rushed. Hal Jordan spent longer fighting Hector Hammond than he did fighting Parallax.
I also felt that Ryan Reynolds was not best suited to the role he was given, I am a big fan of Reynolds and he looked cool in the costume, but if you're going to have him in a film, you need to make his character more quirky and I think that as Hal Jordan, he wasn't given the freedom to act as he does in his other films.
I don't read Green Lantern comics so i can't say if it's entirely comic book accurate or not but as a fan of comics in general I think it worked fine, for example the after credits scene was bound to happen and fans of Green Lantern comics will agree with me but I suggest that if you're thinking of seeing this, don't expect a great deal from it.

OK, I just got back from Green Lantern, and want to review it before I forget anything.  This is not the best movie done by DC, but it's in the top two or three (who can beat The Dark Knight?).  So, to break it down...  

PROS: This movie really introduced the non-comic-book-fan to Hal Jordan, the Guardians, the Corps, Sinestro, and the the Yellow Light.  I enjoyed seeing all the villains tied together by the Yellow Light; they weren't  just completely separate entities.  I mostly enjoyed the portrayal of Hal, although I still don't think Ryan Reynolds was the best choice, and there were some moments that made me mad, just thinking, "This is not Hal Jordan!"  Altogether, it was a complete and VERY enjoyable movie.  
 
CONS:  I know this is a PG-13 movie, but the bad language is still a con for me, as a Christian, and it was really unnecessary.  Also, I never think of Hal as a ladies' man at all, so this left a bad taste.  We had Green Lantern acting a little too much like Johnny Storm.  Other than these and some other suggestive moments, it wasn't especially dirty. 
 
Overall, I really loved this movie, and I was actually sad when it ended.  I just wanted it to keep going!  I would absolutely recommend it to comic book fans and non-fans.  Thank you DC!!   
 
(By the way, make sure to stay through half the credits, there's a great scene at the end.)

My video review of Green Lantern.  
  
 
     

This weekend, me along with my Dad and bro pulled a double feature at the local mall theater and catch “Cars 2” and then “Green Lantern” and we both greatly enjoyed the 2 movies.

 

The Green Lantern movie started out a rocky take off, but it then it took off as a great experience, with some slight turbulence. One thing I noticed in the film that it is very fast pace, with very little to no going too deep with the characters, and sometimes having to fly with little to no explanations (leaving to the saying “The Ring Did It”). Does that make it a major flaw to the film… no, a small bit annoying, but considering the angle of the movie going for, I would say that work for it.

In the movies, “Super 8” and most of the “Bay Transformers Movies”, the aliens are underplayed, Green Lantern however, shows off the aliens and what the Green Ring can do.   My favorite parts of the film is when Hal is on Oa, and we see the other Corps members, many of which are very awesome in design, and how Hal uses his ring in training. I just love it when he pulls out a chain-saw in his sword fight with Sinestro. My other favorite part when Hal “publically” appears after converting a crashing helicopter into Hotrod car and have run around a Hotwheels track based on what his nephew had. You can’t say you’ve seen that in movies. My Dad’s favorite is when Hal tries to pull a Batman and Superman with Carol, whose best line is “I known you for my entire life, why makes you think hiding your cheek-bones is going to fool me?!”

The one real flaw of the film is not the plot holes, nor being “faithful” to the source material as some bloggers may say, but I would have to say the movie just makes references for reference sake. One example is how around the start, Hal is with his brothers and bonds with his nephew. This plays a bigger part in the comics. In the movie, they appear for one part and not seen or mention after it. Also the Lanterns, you see a lot of different aliens on Oa, but the movie only focus the 2 (not including Sinestero) and the Guardians (who seem to have some weird head thing going on).

So yeah, Green Lantern has some problems, but then again, so did the Superman and Spider-Man films and people like them. The Green Lantern  is one of the movies that isn’t going to be a “box office smash” but something for the nerds in all of to enjoy, like the people of Tron. It’s not the going to be the greatest, but something you’ll see again and again for all the really good parts. I highly recommend this movie to fans of sci-fi and comics to go see, because I think this movie needs better opinion then the standards that Marvel has set up with their movies, it just needs some better polish for the sequels.

I finally got to see Green Lantern despite bad reviews for  it having flaws here and there, it was a decent film 
 
     Let's face it, no movie is perfect, and I don't expect any film to be perfect on every area and where Green Lantern excels in, it shows.  
 
     I was happy to see a new DC character to join Superman and Batman on the big screen. Marvel is in the lead, but not all of them have been great films. Ryan Reynolds did a good job and I could tell he cared about this role and was given more to work with as opposed to his role in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Something about his hair in the role bothered me. It seemed too spiky.  
Blake Lively as Carol Ferris wasn't as wooden as I though she would be as she portrayed her emotions well. 
 
     Hector Hammond as a villain was something I did not expect. I didn't find him as too big of a threat and I was more interested in Parallax. I didn't like the form Parallax took in the film very much, but if Parallax returns for a sequel, maybe it can take another form, as in the film it was possessing a Guardian and it looked to be so. I found Sinestro a little too cold to Hal but he warms up to him in the end (sort of).  
 
     What I hope to see from the sequels to these films is more focus on the other Lanterns. We only briefly see them and they're in crowds so it is hard to tell each of them apart, though I saw a few familiar faces. Tomar Re and Kilowog were portrayed well but they needed more screen time. I liked the special effects for the most part and I didn't think Hal's mask needed so much ridicule.
 
     I felt for something as vast as the Green Lantern mythos, it was too short. It just didn't have enough but hopefully the creators will have learned from their mistakes and we will get what we deserve next time by giving us more to see and discover. It wasn't a failure of a movie, but it does need some work in the constructs.

Hi everyone!!!!!! Man it's been ages since I've written a review. Feeling a little ashamed of myself! I'm slacking!!! So to start back up we will start with: GREEN LANTERN!!....... 
 
Yea... Where to begin? First allow me to state now, I have NO real knowledge about anything Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern. I know very tiny bits and absolutely no pieces! But hey when you hear that Ryan Reynolds is on board, you tend to get a little giddy, then a little light headed from all the giddness, then you proceed to faint from the light headedness... or was that just me? Yes it's true if you have not figured it out yet, I GO HARD FOR RYAN!!!!  
 
Like I rewind the clip of him and Sandra Bullock "accidently" bumping uglies, about 50 times and never get tired of his response and body HARD!!!!  
 
With all of that said, I didn't know what to expect from this movie. Ususally I'm just looking for an enjoyable time, but this time around I think I was more like "man I hope this is awesome so we can get some more DC movies", *clears throat to cough* WONDER WOMAN.... anyone have any water.... not slick I know but yes I did have ulterior motives. With Batman and Superman approaching fast, I'm still trying to figure out how we skipped over WW and landed on Hal but hey I'll take something as long as we ended up a little closer to WW. 
 
Have you noted yet how I keep going off subject yet? I think it's my inability to trash talk Ryan.... but here it is.... the d*mn movie SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so...... bored after a while.... and highly disappointed!!!  
 
With a $200 million budget, how do you end up with a $200 million mistake?  
 
Ok ok, yes Sinestro, played by Sherlock Holmes villian Mark Strong, was great but not much else was after that. I found Hector Hammond to be just plain annoying, and I understood that they were trying to give the character some depth but COME ON!!!! He just didn't seem to fit at all, but when you're trying to show that he's overlooked by his dad, to nerdy for words,  in love with Carol,  envious of Hal oh and possed by a former little green mans' evilness, you can end up with a MESS!  
 
Now Blake Lively was a bit of a surprise. I'm not a Gossip Child, Teen, Girl ,or whatever that show is called, fan but she was actually handling herself quite well on screen so I wasn't too bored. Now that doesn't mean that I'm going to start watching her show or anything, HELL to the NAW!!!! But it does mean that I would not mind seeing her in a possible sequel to this diaster! 
 
Now for my baby..... oh Ryan how I heart thee.....This hurts me to say but here it it...... WTF were you thinking taking this part??????!!!!!!! You would have been sooooooooooooooooooo much better as Flash!!!!!! From true GL fanboys I have learned that Hal is serious, like dead seriuos about everything I'm assuming, so coming from someone who loves a funny quip here and there, why take this role? Yes they did try to make you slightly funny and every joke went over my head and trust me thats not normal for me! Like I watch everything from Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy to Katt Williams and my new fave kevin Hart, so I get comedy! But you just seemed like a shell of your funny sarcastic self!  Now yes you nailed Deadpool but hey that crazy guy is looney, but come on man really? Like, really?
 
Sadly, this movie did nothing for me, there is nothing worthy for me to brag about save Sinestro. Oh woe is me......

Green Lantern Review (Take II):

 
Internet critics can be harsh. But they can also be rather wrong. This is one of the rare cases in which I have to say: all the super-negative reviews I read about this movie were dead-on mistaken. Not only Green Lantern is one of the best superhero movies around, it's far more ambitious than it looks.
 
Green Lantern was released in the United States a while ago, and even though I read some reviews (all of them negative) I still went to see it in the opening day when it launched here in Brazil (tonight). I gotta say, I have no clue why this movie got so much shit, and even worse, why people praised other superhero flics that, while enjoyable, were nowhere near the quality of this one.
 
Shall I begin to convince you, reader?
 

The Plot:

 
Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is an airforce pilot who many consider irresponsible and an a**hole, including his long-time love interest but never-quite-there-yet Carol Ferris (Blake Lively). The ace and one-of-a-kind air--fighter, however, is a puzzle full of fears that he cannot control, but that he hides behind the facade of a man who won't make any real commitments, afraid of losing whatever he holds dear. From the start we are shown a very humane character, more-so than most comic book heroes, and specially comic book heroes that are on screen nowdays.
 
What Hal doesn't know, however, is that somewhere in the galaxy the entity Parallax that feeds on the yellow color of Fear (opposed to the Green Lantern's green color of Willpower) is running free again, and after fighting with the Green Lantern that imprisioned it ages ago and mortally wounding him, the creature starts destroying planets and feeding on them. This Green Lantern that Parallax defeats is the most powerful of them, Abin Sur, and quickly after he realizes death is iminent the alien goes to the most nearby planet to find a heir to his Green Lantern Ring, the person who will take his place.
 
For the first time in the history of the Green Lantern Corps a human, Hal Jordan, is picked by the Ring, for the power harnessed within the artifact, the green color of Willpower, finds within Hal something valuable, worthy of the Corps.
 
Not to spoil much, but the main thing about the movie's history is that Hal Jordan not only shows why he was chosen, but -why- Fear could be beaten by Willpower. When Parallax threatens Oa (the planet of the Green Lanterns), the rulers are afraid enough of it to try new, desperate tactics, but refuse to admit what they feel, much like Hal, who hides behind a facade of a skirt-chaser and an asshole because he is afraid of bonding himself to duties or people. The difference is that, while the rulers of Oa refuse to admit their fears and fight the notion of being afraid, instead of fighting fear itself, Hal knows, being human and having this sense of vulnerability ever since his father died, that fear is normal. Overcoming fear is courage. Denying fear, however, won't make it go away.
 
Because Hal is the only Green Lantern willing to admit he fears something, he is the only one capable of overcoming fear and showing true courage, teaching the Corps something they didn't know about something they thought as mastered. He defeats Parallax not because he is 'The Chosen One', but because he is human, and was as flawed as we come, but had in his heart Willpower to beat Fear.
 
It is very rare for a comic book movie to let itself tell such a story. It's usually to-your-face, dumbed-down, but this time, it  wasn't. Green Lantern managed to tell a story that is a circle in itself, and even though it had it's flawed parts, nothing detracts from the tale that revolves around Hal Jordan.
 

The Characters:

 
Ryan Reynolds (as Hal Jordan): As hard as it was for me to admit, Reynolds plays a great character in this movie. He may not be Hal Jordan as people know him from the comics (I know very little about him) but as the protagonist for this flick, he is believable and we actually care about him. He can be funny and in the few moments he is with Carol you can see the guy cares for her. Ryan isn't Robert Downey Jr. when it comes to owning the screen, but then again, I find it to be a good thing: Hal Jordan is not about being a larger than life awesome superhero. He is just a brave man.
 
Blake Lively (as Carol Ferris): Well, Blake Lively is also pretty good on this movie. She takes her character pretty seriously, and she conveys all the right emotions when talking with Hal Jordan, the man she loves and loves her back, but that won't take that step torwards something more meaningful because of fear. It's fun to see this kind of dynamics, because even though they had sex together already, even though they know their feelings for each other, and even though she knows about Hal's flaws, Carol actually cares for him, and wants to help him out (though she shows her patience is growing shorter and shorter as the years go by)! Very inspired performance, I think, and she really makes for a good romantic interest for the character. Carol is a very important key for Hal to become the man he is in the end of the movie.
 
Peter Saasgard (as Hector Hammond): Again breaking with tradition, Green Lantern lends itself to actually let the villain have his moments of humanity. Hector is depicted as a man who rather teach than to be part of the government, a man who believes in merit over connections, and someone with real difficulty with socializing with others. Peter Saasgard makes the most with his role, and even though the character slowly deranges himself to the henchman level of Parallax, he is responsible for some of the strongest scenes in the movie, where kills the whole laboratory and his father, drunk with the power of Fear inside of him. Most of my favorite movies don't let the villain have his own soul, so this was yet another bold move from Green Lantern I think worked.
 
Mark Strong (as Sinestro): To say the man makes a purple alien with a pencil-thin mustache work on-screen is already saying enough of what I thought about him in the movie. Sinestro is one of those characters that could almost be the co-protagonist of this movie, and probably hold a movie of his own. He is noble and stern, flawed and respectable, which is a shame, because when he dons the Yellow Ring (after-credits scene) there is no reason for him to do it. It's just a 'we need to have a post-credit scene! It's comic book movie must-have!'.
 
 

The Veredict:

 
So, my final thoughts are: not only this movie didn't suck, it was awesome, having better character development and less plot-holes than Thor and Captain America. Of course the movie has it's flaws (namely some very weird lines, or the post-credits scene) it was a comic book movie that from the start told you: this is not your average comic-book movie. The actors were great, the script was above average (better than Captain's, Thor's, Ironman 2 or anything coming before, like the Spidermans) and Hal's journey is incredibly inspiring. The way Hal becomes one of the most important Green Lanterns and finds his true calling is smart and touching, avoiding the usual chosen one or destiny crap.
 
The CGI is fine, the jokes are there and they are funny, some of the less credible elements of comic books (like the tiny mask protecting his identity) are even the center of said jokes. The story is enjoyable and, lets remember, this is just the first movie. Do not let bad criticism put you down, and go watch for yourselves!
 
Thanks for reading!

Ok to start off this review I want to say, I have been a huge Green Lantern fan for years. I always wanted a Green Lantern movie, when I heard they were making this movie I was very excited. Then the news came that Ryan Reynolds would be portraying Hal Jordan, intercalactic cop of space sector of 2814. This movie was pretty bad, I really dont like this movie at all.  
 
The Good: There really isnt to much great about this film) 
1: Mark Strong as Sinestro  
2: The effects on Oa 
3. The ending credits scene 
4. When Ryan Reynolds says the Green Lantern oath it is actually believable 
 
The Bad: 
1. Hector Hammond was worthless 
2. Unfinished effects 
3. Ryan Reynolds was a terrible Hal Jordan 
4. The little screen time for Kilowog and Tomar Re 
5. Hal's training was rushed
6. The cheesy comedy 
7. Blake Lively may be kind of hot but she did a bad job as Carol Ferris 
8. Not enough time on Oa, I wanted to see more 
9. The rushed ending on how Hal beat Paralaz 
10. 105 minutes is not enough time for a Green Lantern film, should have been longer, like how TDK was 152 minutes was fine 
11.The Guardians looked like smaller versions of Megaminds  
12. Hal is way to cocky and over confident 
13. Most of the time it looked looked like a floating Ryan Reynolds wobbly-head  
14. I dont remember one of the Guardians being consumed by Paralax 
 
To be honest it was hard to find the good in this movie, I named the bad in under 2 minutes. I really want a reboot in the next 7 years. Or at least the sequel with another focus such as Kyle, John, Sinestro's origin, hell I would even watch a film based around Kilowog.  
 
 In all I dont like this movie, I want a better sequel or focus on someone else. This is definately a rent, watch online or wait until Netflix has it.  
 
 In this video skip to 10 seconds to see my reaction when I walked out of the movie theater.   

I go to watch the movie with a friend. In my country (Bulgaria) there was 3D production in September. When i saw the film and the 3D effects i was all like "cool aliens, not so good 3D effects in action scenes, some good momments and a terrible Hal Jordan". Green Lanterns and the Guardians we're awesome. Paralax wasn't really good.

One of all the bad things in my opinion is that the most of the film were Earth scenes and not so much Green Lantern Corps scenes or space scenes. When i think it now maybe the better name fo this film will be "Hal Jordan on a date" !!!

And despite all the bad thing that i say there was stuf i liked pretty much - like the end of the movie !!! Maybe they cud maked this film a lot better but it's good the way it is !!!

Green Lantern nos trae la historia de Hal Jordan, un piloto que se convierte en el sucesor del extraterrestre Abin Sur en The Green Lantern Corp. Que en otras palabras son los policías intergaláctica. En eso el tiene que aprender a como lidear con sus temores para poder vencer a una criatura que se alimenta del miedo.

Este es uno de los personajes más reconocidos de la compañía DC comics y esta es su primera película. Siendo dirigida por Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Goldeneye) pensé que iba a ser entretenida. Pero lamentablemente no fue lo que esperaba. Los efectos especiales se ven bien pero la sobre imposición y algunos diseños realmente se ven raros. Algunas cosas como Siniestro y Kilowog son realmente impresionantes. Pero aun así cuando estaban con el protagonista se veían raros. Por lo menos los diseños de los demas extraterestres se pueden distinguir quienes son y como son.

La historia es la mejor ya que no hacen un balance en lo que es GL corp. y Hal Jordan. Por lo menos hubiera dedicado más tiempo estableciendo quiénes son estos personajes y cómo funcionan porque realmente apenas le dedicaron tiempo. Las actuaciones son regulares, Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan) hizo de Ryan Reynolds. Blake Lively no aporto mucho solamente aparte en el rol de la damisela en peligro. Pero espero que su personaje, Carol Ferris, tenga un rol más importante ya que es importante. Mark Strong (Siniestro) lucio imponente y me quede con ganas de que saliera más tiempo, para desarrollar una relación con Hal. Una de las cosas que realmente que no me gusto es la integración que hicieron con Hot Wheels en una parte que ha salido en la televisión.

El filme cuenta con dos villanos, Hector Hammond, hijo de un senador, es un villano interesante pero no tuvo tanto impacto o amenaza. El junto a Carol y Hal, tienen el mismo problema ya que los 3 tienen problemas con sus respectivos padres. Parallax siendo el verdadero villano de la película me recordó a Galactus (Fantastic Four 2: The Rise Of The Silver Surfer) en donde lo convirtieron en una nube.

En fin, es una lástima que un personaje tan interesante como Hal Jordan empezara tan mal. A los fans de comics no les gustara para nada esta película mientras que los no-fans del comic pensaran lo mismo.

After all the negative reviews, and the poor showing at the box office, I am happy to say my interest had not waned for this movie.

Granted I was leading the chorus in the Choir of Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan, but over all I could not get past the wonderful scenes of OA in the previews.

To tell the truth, those scenes on the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps are amazing. They are cool to look at and you end up wanting to see the members of the corps highlighted and given more screen time.

Unfortunately, the script pulls us away from the cool stuff, and gets us back to planet Earth pretty damn quick. On Earth Hal Jordan has to deal with angry bosses, and a mad scientist who is seemingly gaining superpowers from the radiation given off by an alien spaceship.

Reynolds is competent as Hal Jordan, but he carries no weight with him. Sorry to the ladies who worship his abs, but he really isn't the deepest of actors ( although in the movie buried, he does show promise ).

Also, does any one else notice that when he is being a smart ass on screen, he always gets a distant look, as if the joke is written on the wall across from him.

Over all, the movie looks great, but it has a weak script to go off of. It is sort of like Daredevil, Not great, but better than it's reputation.

With Thor being all powerfully awesome and the X-Men made their big come back Green Lantern ,which is why the newest entry in DC Comics’ long lineage of films doesn’t help them out in any way.

Throughout the universe exists a galactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps. With the use of their power rings, which grants its chosen wearer the ability to create anything their mind imagines, they patrol the 3600 individual sectors of the universe. When the cosmic entity known as Parallax is released and begins to feed on fear, the lone Green Lantern strong enough to defeat it, Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison), is gravely wounded and sets off to find his replacement. Enter cocky fighter test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds), whose confidence in the air gets him in trouble on the ground. While Abin Sur’s pupil and good friend, Sinestro (Mark Strong), sees only weakness in Jordan, he may end up being the strongest Lantern yet. With Parallax threatening the universe, Jordan has to overcome his desire to run from responsibility and commit to being a hero.

One of the first sink or swim moments in the film occurs right in the opening scene, when aliens that have crash-landed on the planet Ryut release Parallax from its dormant state. The entire didn’t look connected to the film at all.

The Villain in the movie (not Sinestro) the psychic Hector Hammond. Unfortunately, this was a bump in the road and kept going, again and again. Instead of utilizing Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard) as one of Jordan’s greatest nemesis, the script treats him like a pawn. He would have been a great villain to ground the film and reign in the mythology to make Lantern an easier pill to swallow, but instead everything seems to revolve around Parallax.

Part of the problem of the film is that it seems to borrow heavily from Geoff Johns’ Secret Origins arc that set the standard for the Green Lantern stories. However, instead of using it as a script, they attempt to mash together different elements while dropping the more complicated material. The result, with Parallax being introduced and Hammond coming in later, sounds right on paper but is dosen’t work well translated to the screen. Oh, and I should also mention that they are trying to do all of this within 105 minutes, then make it longer!

While I’ll admit that setting up Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern mythos is daunting, most of the successful origin stories coming out now make an effort to keep the film grounded. Here, there seems to be little attempt to ease the audience into the mythology. You either accept from the opening minutes of the film that a grey cloud that glows yellow with a skeletal face is ravaging the universe, or you don’t.

Paradoxically, while the film shoves Parallax down your throat, it uses the home planet of the Green Lanterns, Oa, as a sideshow. Jordan is immediately sent there once he speaks the oath for training. While you might want to sit back and relax as the film introduces you to the way the power ring works and see Jordan progress, they abruptly stop to send us back to Earth.

One part of the film that actually works is the cast, with Reynolds leading the way. Jordan has a cockiness that blends with humanity in the comics, and Reynolds seems to tap into that with ease. He has plenty of one-liners to keep the audience laughing, but they never go overboard with it. He can be serious when he wants, and when he is emotionally wounded, we believe it. Even Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, former flame and childhood friend of Jordan’s, at certain moments, can holds her own. Doing the best he can in his shrunken role, too bad for Peter Sarsgaard, he is nearly unrecognizable in his swollen head prosthetic and is a cruel, menacing character that has some shocking moments.

Additionally, Mark Strong manages to make Sinestro—a tall, purple alien with a window’s peak and pencil mustache—intimidating and serious. The camera doesn’t shy away from him either, and the makeup and costume look great on him. There is also a key portion of his character that appears in the middle of the credits, and I say, There was no point for it! It was a cop out to his character all together! The real stunner, though, is Abin Sur’s makeup. The muscle tissue and purple glow might cause some to stare in awe, which is a shame because he isn’t around very long.

One thing to note is that on close-ups, Jordan’s suit looks great, if you can make a suit from your energy ring, then it should look like its attached to your body, right? But from distances it still appears obviously fake. The suits work for the other Lanterns, since they are CG. As for the 3D, some of the scenes on Oa seem to shine, but because most of the film takes place on Earth, it once again feels more like an unnecessary expense.

Martin Campbell helped Pierce Brosnan’s career as James Bond and later delivering a knockout with Casino Royale, which effectively rebooted the Bond franchise. You would think this would be a lot easier. This movie should have boosted The Green Lantern franchise to the heavy hitters like Superman and Batman, but the origin didn’t help that much, I hope the animated series does a lot better.

Oh, I now know the oath by heart.

Of all the DC heroes, Green Lantern has to be the hardest to adapt to film, just given the whole idea of introducing the concept of a Green Lantern Corps, the background of Hal Jordan and everything it's just a lot to tackle in a 2 hour movie. Don't believe me? Try to explain who Green Lantern is and what his powers are to someone who's never heard of him. 
 
Add to that the fact that even in the comics his powers have been at times - ill defined (do his constructs have the properties of the things they are? Do they persist without him thinking about them? Can he create complex machinery?) for more, see my review on the first issue of Justice League.
 
So when this film started getting terrible reviews on it's release, I was unsurprised. What did actually surprise me was how much better it was than I expected. Yes, liberties had to be taken with the comics, and yes, some inevitable plot holes creeped in. But, man, they got so much right. Particularly characterization. Hal, Carol, and especially Sinestro were dead on the way I'd always imagined them. I'd seen Mark Strong a few times before, but never really took much notice of him before now. His performance really acted as a foil to Ryan Reynold's Hal.
 
This may not be the giant space opera we all want to see - but with so much to set up, it's a decent enough beginning. Let's hope they keep building on it and bring bigger and better Lantern stories in the future!