Green Lantern(2011)-My Review

Well to start off Green Lantern along with Batman are my two favourite superheroes and i'll try not to be biased with this one.Green Lantern is a 2011 American superhero film directed by Martin Campbell and stars Ryan Reynolds,Blake Lively,Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard in the lead roles.

For those who have no idea who Green Lantern is,he is a part of an intergalactic protection force known as the Green Lantern corps. located on a fictional planet called "Oa".Tiny immortal creatures and inhabitants of the planet known only as "the guardians of the universe" create rings for the "chosen ones" to use as powerful weapons.These chosen ones are known as "Green Lanterns".The ring has the ability to project anything that the user can imagine through "hard light constructs" and the ring is fueled by the user's willpower.It has to be charged every 24 Earth hours by using the "battery" which in turn draws power from a central battery located on "Oa".There are about 7000 Lanterns in the universe,each one assigned to a particular region of space divided as sectors.Sadly,though there is not one human lantern and this story is about the first human to ever become a Green Lantern.Green Lantern is a DC comics character.

Ryan Reynold plays the role of Hal Jordan,a fighter pilot who goes on to become the first human Green Lantern and then goes onto become one of the greatest Lanterns ever by defeating a very powerful enemy to the corps. knows as "Parallax" all by himself.This depiction of Hal Jordan was alright but could have been more serious though because being funny is not Hal Jordan and that is encroachment upon Flash's territory.Nonetheless i found Ryan Reynolds as a perfect match for the character and he did do justice to it.

When Blake Lively comes to mind,television's "Gossip Girl(2007-present) comes to mind.In this movie she plays a co-pilot and love interest of the film's primary character.Can't really complain about her role in the movie but i did wish at one point that she had lesser screen time because i found her role to be distracting to the main plot.

Mark Strong plays the very aggressive "Sinestro" who is a fellow Green Lantern and a very important one.He does not enjoy a lot of screen time in this one but since the character is of very high importance i am sure we will see a lot of him in the sequel to follow.

Peter Sarsgaard plays Dr.Hector Hammond,a scientist who has always been jealous of Hal Jordan and is effected by the yellow energy of parallax and turns evil.Nothing much can be said about him but i'll just say he did well.

Since this is the season of superhero movies and since Green Lantern has a 200 million dollar budget you can expect some great special effects in the movie.But its the plot that was too thin in my opinion.I know that this is an origin movie but it felt like it ended too quickly.Director Martin Campbell who is famous for James Bond movies such as Goldeneye(1995) and Casino Royale(2006) has done an OK job with this one but should have taken a look at the animated DC original,"Green Lantern,first flight(2009)" because i found that to be a better origin movie.On the overall i liked it and thoroughly enjoyed it and one should never expect every superhero movie to be like Christopher Nolan's "Batman" series.

My rating:-4/5

My comment:-A must watch if you are a fan of superheroes like i am.