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Noisy, overproduced, and thinly written, Green Lantern squanders an impressive budget and decades of comics mythology.
All Critics (237) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (175) | DVD (5)
How many more of these superheroes can we take? Oct 7, 2011 | Full Review…
How many more of these superheroes can we take?
Leah Rozen
The green aesthetic misfires: the whole film looks as if it's been inspired by a particular shade of washing-up liquid, or the glowing screens of ancient computers. Aug 11, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The green aesthetic misfires: the whole film looks as if it's been inspired by a particular shade of washing-up liquid, or the glowing screens of ancient computers.
Philippa Hawker
A certain tone is needed to carry off the script's manifold absurdities. It has to be tongue-in-cheek rather than foot-in-mouth and Reynolds' success rate is intermittent at best. Aug 10, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
A certain tone is needed to carry off the script's manifold absurdities. It has to be tongue-in-cheek rather than foot-in-mouth and Reynolds' success rate is intermittent at best.
Paul Byrnes
He's an ambiguously...heroic hero. Jun 20, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
He's an ambiguously...heroic hero.
Richard Roeper
Apart from having no particular reason to exist onscreen, especially at these prices, it's not half bad. Jun 20, 2011 | Full Review…
Apart from having no particular reason to exist onscreen, especially at these prices, it's not half bad.
David Edelstein
The result makes the movie seem assembled from bits and pieces of other superhero yarns rather than existing on a plane of its own. Jun 17, 2011 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The result makes the movie seem assembled from bits and pieces of other superhero yarns rather than existing on a plane of its own.
James Berardinelli
All the prancing about on a galaxy far far away where Hal [Ryan Reynolds] meets the other Green Lanterns, and the wise ancients, and a gigantic gruff sergeant-type who learns him his ropes is all a bit of a bore. Apr 2, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
All the prancing about on a galaxy far far away where Hal [Ryan Reynolds] meets the other Green Lanterns, and the wise ancients, and a gigantic gruff sergeant-type who learns him his ropes is all a bit of a bore.
Shubhra Gupta
There are some fun moments in Green Lantern, and Reynolds and Sarsgaard...are truly worth watching. The movie, however, flickers between being fun and a mess. Feb 12, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
There are some fun moments in Green Lantern, and Reynolds and Sarsgaard...are truly worth watching. The movie, however, flickers between being fun and a mess.
Abbie Bernstein
While he's not a compelling enough character or superhero to care about, as Green Lantern, [Ryan Reynolds is] believable in his solemnity, yet his comedic charm helps when dealing with the absurdity that comes with the premise. Jan 28, 2019 | Full Review…
While he's not a compelling enough character or superhero to care about, as Green Lantern, [Ryan Reynolds is] believable in his solemnity, yet his comedic charm helps when dealing with the absurdity that comes with the premise.
Nathalia Aryani
With a cast like that, this superhero flick, like Hal Jordan himself, had real potential to rise above its provenance. But the dialogue is simply beyond cheesy. Jan 8, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
With a cast like that, this superhero flick, like Hal Jordan himself, had real potential to rise above its provenance. But the dialogue is simply beyond cheesy.
Kelly Jane Torrance
In brightest day, in blackest night...No cliche will escape my sight...I guess its really not that bad...But it certainly is loud and bright. Nov 4, 2018 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
In brightest day, in blackest night...No cliche will escape my sight...I guess its really not that bad...But it certainly is loud and bright.
Johnny Gayzmonic
This isn't quite the stake through the heart of the superhero movie that some of its most vociferous critics are making it out to be, but it sure isn't the genre's brightest day, either. Nov 2, 2018 | Rating: C | Full Review…
This isn't quite the stake through the heart of the superhero movie that some of its most vociferous critics are making it out to be, but it sure isn't the genre's brightest day, either.
Zaki Hasan
Green Lantern seems to be that one superhero movie that everyone seemed to hate and was extremely panned by critics, and to be honest I don't really see anything really insanely bad about it like everyone else. While yes I think Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan is a strange choice and feel more like he could play the Flash more than the Green Lantern, one of my favorite Superheroes but he does the role actually pretty well in my mind and he is pretty funny IMO. Many of the actors actually do pretty good jobs too, except for two, Tim Robbins and Peter Sarsgaard. While I love Robbins in films like Shawshank Redemption, he really is given almost nothing to work with in this film at all, he is mainly just there and does almost nothing the whole film and Sarsgaard is just so obnoxious in the movie and really just feels almost pointless and especially since he was not really as involved or as big of a villain in the comics (I did like how he had a Pokemon Sapphire game in his house which was pretty funny). The effects in the film also all look great especially the fantastic designs of all of the different Lanterns during the scene where all the lanterns meet to discuss the problem of Parallax, which he is a fantastic effect in and of itself (plus it was awesome to have Clancy "Mr. Krabs, Mr. Freeze" Brown play him).
Super Reviewer
I'm surprised to see that so many people hated this movie, since it is not bad but rather an entertaining superhero movie (despite an irregular CGI) with good dialogue and decent acting, especially from Peter Sarsgaard, who seems to be having a lot of fun as the bad guy.
Not just fear ... but fear from space, space fear, yellow-colored space fear threatens home sweet home ... what's a world to do? Luckily, our hero enters: the jock next door, more irreverent than Mad magazine, able to leap over discarded girlfriends with a single bound, and that's only his entrance. There's fun to be had as this superhero dreams his power up on the spot, if only the work had been better thunk out. Its a summertime movie, so whatever.
After reading a handful of bad reviews i went into this expecting a giant pile of turd. Now granted I don't dislike many movies. Everything has its good qualities. And I have enjoyed several recent movies that others have disliked. That said my expectations had been seriously lowered going in and well, it wasnt as bad as I expected. The movie had somewhat decent acting across the board. Nothing great, just good enough for what the actors were given with. The movie relied heavily on CGI for its otherworldly Corp Members and settings. These were not bad just a huge chunk of the movie. Up against both Thor and X-Men First Class the movie had little to no deeper story. Both of those two movies this summer had a bit more going for them story wise.. There seemed to be some parts that did feel a bit rushed. overall though I enjoyed the movie.
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