I trøde never in a million years that I would get to see a live action Green Lantern film. Of all the members of the Justice League, he was the one character, there seemed to be the least well-known and hardest to develop into a stand-alone film. Add to that the fact that pretty much all Green Lantern powers comes out of the ring means that special effects would be such that they are credible and that most of the film would use a ton of effects. Fortunately, the technology is now available to make this a reality, and therefore we now have Green Lantern in his own films. I hope that this may lead to further individual films for each Member of the Justice League leading up to a Justice League film, as Marvel has done with members of the Avengers leading up to the Avengers film due out next year. I will keep my fingers crossed for it, but in the meantime, give the opportunity to discuss their current effort of the Green Lantern.
For those of you familiar with Green Lantern, he is a member of a larger group known as the Green Lantern Corps. The is an organization created by the guardians of the universe, patrol the entire Galaxy to maintain balance and maintain fairness throughout the universe. Each Green Lantern is proved, a particular ring, allowing the Lantern to create anything you can imagine, you can see, the ring is powered by willpower and the things that the construct is only as strong as the willpower of the Lantern uses it. This film deals with primarily the first human Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, and also gives us a great introduction to the Green Lantern Corps, the guardians and their worst enemy parallax.
I was mostly quite fond of the story they told about the origin of Earth's first Green Lantern. Casting of Ryan Reynolds was just about perfect, but the actor, who stole the Show for me was Mark Strong as Sinestro. I can't think of anyone else could have come close to his performance. If only they had done him the villain in the movie, but I hope that this is not good enough to warrant a sequel. In fact the best parts of the entire film were those dealing with Corps as a whole and all of the scenes were filmed at Lantern Home World of Oa. If only they had kept the scenes involving Hal find Abin Sur and his destroyed space craft and Hal finally accepts the ring, but when he travels to Oa to begin his education and learning about the Corps, the operation should have remained there, Hal and the entire Corps training series Parallax then Hal come back to Earth as the patron. I was just not as impressed after Hal comes back from Oa when he decides that he does not wish to accept responsibility for being Green Lantern. They could just as easily have created an origin story, which took place on Oa and was only on Earth for the beginning and end of the film. That said, I was still incredibly impressed with what they manage to put together and the overall story, as you said. This was a good introduction to this amazing characters, but it is only the tip of the iceberg everything Green Lantern can do and how important he is to the Earth and the Galaxy he helps protect security.
If you are a fan of Superman or Batman, you should go and check out this movie. Remember that the Green Lantern is one of the seven founding members of the Justice League that includes Batman, Superman, wonder woman, Flash, Aquaman and the Martian Manh unter. I can't tell you how much I hope and pray we will get not only to watch individual movies for each of these characters, but also see them joined together in a Justice League movie. Give this film a chance, despite all the bad reviews, you might have seen, and immerse yourself in this amazing world. If this movie doesn't do well, then our chances to see more of these characters in their own movie disappear before they even get the chance.
J. Chandler: B
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