If that's what you want, that's what you get. It intends to be a sound-and-light show, assaulting the audience with sensational special effects. "Green Lantern" does not intend to be plausible. I am amazed at how calmly humans absorb and accept the incredulities of these stories ("Waitaminit! I wear this magic green ring and I'm a superhero? Gee, that's every kid's dream!")
Nor does "Green Lantern" shortchange us on dialogue indeed, it spends a great deal of time at the impossible task of explaining the logic and rules of its plot. One of the absurdities of many modern superhero movies is how they adorn silly plots with great solemnity and millions of dollars in special effects. If this sounds childish, of course it is. Hal learns that the ring gives him great power, but he must believe in the triumph of his Will and conquer the weakness of Fear.
His spaceship, which has survived a journey across the cosmos, crash-lands, and he lives long enough to hand over a green ring and a lantern to, of course, Hal Jordan. One of these corpsmen is sent on a mission to find a worthy man on Earth to become a member of the corps. Does Carl worry about his daughter flying in dogfights at supersonic speeds? To answer that question would require him to reveal emotion, and he is locked immobile in Superhero Tycoon Mode.įar away in the universe, the benign aliens have created the Green Lantern Corps to spread out and combat the evil Parallax. His fellow pilot is Carol Ferris ( Blake Lively), the daughter of the tycoon Carl Ferris ( Jay O. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, a test pilot who proves that humans are better at flying fighter planes than computers.
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