Green Lantern takes an hour to get going. It has lots of plot exposition to endure. How the Green Lantern guy got his ring, how he travels to the planet Oa to learn how to use his super ring powers, how he defeats one of the greatest threats to the Universe, etc.
The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan and Blake Lively as the girl. Reynolds has been OK in a few lightweight comedies and films like The Proposal and The Nines. Then again Reynolds has also been the star of National Lampoon's Van Wilder and Blade: Trinity. Regardless, he doesn't have the charisma to pull off a larger then life super hero. Blake Lively is another one of those flavor of the month actor chicks who manage to make absolutely no impression, in fairness the script never gave her a chance.
Frankly, the Green Lantern power to think of things and make them materialize with his magic ring is kind of lame and the kind of things he thinks of are lame as well, Giant drills for drilling through monsters, race cars and tracks that travel around in the air and green swords clearly modeled on light sabers, not much imagination here.
Green Lantern with it's overblown computer effects cost Warner Brothers a small fortune. It needed to make 500 million bucks to be considered successful, instead it came in at 200 million on a 300 million dollar budget. Anyway, not worth anyone's time
No franchise with this film.
114 minutes.
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