Yet another superhero movie debuts in the Summer Season, this time in the form of the color green. Warner Brothers' Green Lantern stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern and Blake Lively as Carol Ferris. While the movie itself is full of eye-popping visual effects and praiseworthy action sequences, the plot however was lacking.
Hal Jordan is an irresponsible test pilot who is afraid to overcome and challenge his own weakness, fear. In an alternate planet, an entire civilization of aliens and other green lanterns are being attacked by Parallex, a smokey demon-like creature that sucks the fear and life out of anything it comes across. And when Parallex kills one of the strongest green lantern aliens, Hal Jordan is bestowed with the responsibility of becoming the superhero that he was meant to be, a challenge that he is able to fulfill with the help of love interest and childhood friend, Carol Ferris.
The film's history was troubled since its first trailer debuted at Comic-Con last year. With lackluster incomplete special effects and barely any scene of significance shown in the footage, fanboys around the world bashed the movie and the likelihood of its success. After the studio made a statement earlier this year regarding how the movie's CGI was not finished when the trailer debuted last year, they released a new theatrical trailer, this time featuring more hefty special effects and action sequences that both WOW-ed and impressed. But was the final product as impressive as its second movie trailer? The answer, is yes and no.
While the special effects were perfectly produced and intricately designed, the heavy use of it often made the movie cheesy, and its many other cliche superhero references (Lively's character mocks Reynold's mask saying that she could still recognize him) makes the movie not able to stand on its own. The performances were great — Peter Sarsgaard as the misunderstood scientist-turned-villain Hector Hammond was both eery and fitting, and Ryan Reynolds is at his witty banter best in the role of Hal. But what will have fanboys drooling is the drop dead gorgeous Blake Lively, who not only stuns with her skin-tight outfits, but also her headstrong confident personality which her character Carol Ferris delivers.
Green Lantern is certainly no X-Men: First Class but it was better than Thor. And while it was a fun and entertaining movie, it isn't something that I would run to buy on iTunes upon its release, but also not something that I would turn down when asked to see it a second time.
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