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Green Lantern

2011

Martin Campbell

Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong ...

4.6

30,544

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action A man is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe. Test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is given a ring which grants super-powers by a dying alien and recruited into an intergalactic peace-keeping force. Hal tries to avoid the responsibility, but a threat to the Earth and the Green Lantern Corps forces him to become a hero. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Green Lantern' does not intend to be plausible. It intends to be a sound-and-light show, assaulting the audience with sensational special effects. If that's what you want, that's what you get (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Martin Campbell's visually lavish sci-fi adventure is a highly unstable alloy of the serious, the goofy and the downright derivative"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Is dazzling in pieces, but we’ve seen too many sharper versions of the superhero origin story in the last few years. It’s not Jonah Hex, but the battery runs low too quickly. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A new primer on how not to make a comicbook movie unless you want to screw shit up. Flat FX, smirky acting, clunky writing and clueless direction. WTF? (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	Green Lantern was meant to be a sci-fi adventure, but it proves to be a genuine mystery. How could its megamoola budget have yielded a production that looks almost as tacky as "Flash Gordon?"	NEG

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