Green Lantern

Director Martin Campbell has resurrected the James Bond franchise and brought back the schwash-buckler with 'The Mask Of Zorro'. Now he tries to make a comic book film.

this film has been in development for quite some time. It has had a few directors and actors in the lead. There are several writers credited too. It shows with the resultant film. To me the film felt like it had been in development for so long and that no one could agree on what type of film it is supposed to be so they just filmed the script to get it out there and hopefully make some return on all the money they had spent on development. The story is a good one and helps explain the history of The Green Lantern Corp very well. It could come across as a bit confusing to some people and I'm sure this is one section of the film that was long debated. However the story is not well explored and does not come across as very thrilling or interesting. There is supposed to be a sense of doom coming from the bad guy but you don't feel it. There should also have been some better connection between Parallax in space and his human counterpart on earth Hector Hammond. Another part of the problems is the characters and their emotional arcs are fairly cliched and uninteresting. They come across as very two dimensional and you don't really come to care for them much. This is especially true of the supporting characters and those from The Green Lantern Corp.

Ryan Reynolds may not have been the best choice for this film. He gives a very good performance as he plays the cocky bastard he normally does. So it would have been nicer to see him play something different. I think Peter Sarsgaard comes off the best in the film. He has a more interesting character to play and he is a great enough actor that he is playing someone you don't normally see him play. Blake Lively gets a decent female role too which she does well with. Sadly Tim Robbins, Angela Bassett and Mark Strong have fairly functionary roles that while good for exposition are not all that interesting on their own.

The rumour is the while this film has failed to perform financially, Warners are still going ahead with another film. Hopefully they will spend a bit more time on a better script.