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Critic Reviews for Green Lantern
The result makes the movie seem assembled from bits and pieces of other superhero yarns rather than existing on a plane of its own.
Top CriticEven by the standards of the current run of mediocre comic-book movies, this one stands out for its egregious shoddiness.
As a disjointed rumble in the cosmos, it's both too much and too little, and too dorky looking. In this case, Green means stop.
It's almost as if no one cared to try hard enough to tell a coherent and engaging story.
[The] movie groans with the strain of explaining who Green Lantern is, while also trying to sell the movie as a big, eye-popping summer entertainment. What gets sacrificed on the altar of this new franchise launch is any real sense of fun.
Neither amusing nor exciting enough to ensure a long-running franchise.
In the hierarchy of comic book movies, it's hovering somewhere near the bottom.
Aisle Seat
Ryan Reynolds is great. This is the second comic book movie [that] hasn't lived up to him.
Needcoffee.com
Friends, fanboys, critics, lend me your eyes. I have not come to bury Green Lantern, but to defend it.
7M Pictures
Gropes for a foothold on the rocks of logic.
Cinema Signals
Visually quite interesting [but] the combination of earnestness and smart-ass wisecracks proves unstable.
One Guy's Opinion
The film wears its nerdy heart on its sleeve, which is endearing, and often falls just short of hitting the mark, which isn't. But a sufficient number of elements work well enough that I came away smiling.
EricDSnider.com
Asinine, nauseating and often dull with no thrills or excitement to be found. It'll make your eyes and ears bleed simultaneously.
NYC Movie Guru
The superhero genre is the home-court of the underdog, of skinny Peter Parkers and mutant outcasts, of heroes born from pain or ingenuity. In Green Lantern, the rich get richer.
Atlantic
A screenplay that was conceived in what will undoubtedly be remembered by the four writers who contributed to it as the blackest night of their creative lives.
DCist
Considering all the characters and subplots, it's no surprise Green Lantern feels more rushed and truncated than epic.
Jam! Movies
The best way to describe his Reynolds' portrayal as Hal Jordan is 'wise-ass.' and with this film, his comedic skills should have been laid aside. Strong's performance as Sinestro is reason enough to see the film rather than Reynold's campy performance.
BlackFilm.com
Green Lantern fails on almost all levels. The story seems determined to hit every cliché in the universe and the dialogue is consistently trite ...
DC has to step up its game. Christopher Nolan's Bat-films aside, Marvel is kicking their ass all over the place.
Sure, comic lovers will thrill when Jordan recites the Lantern oath for the first time, but I bet they'd be a lot happier if he had something interesting to do afterwards.
Mania.com
Reynolds has the xylophone abs and smart-aleck persona to make a superhero fun... This movie has little else to offer except gaudy CGI doodles including like a villain resembling an overflowing septic tank with teeth.
It isn't innovative, it isn't deep, the characters aren't particularly well-developed, but I still had a good time watching Green Lantern. It's hard to dislike a movie that has shortcomings and still provides an...
