Green Lantern

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Green Lantern

PG-13

2011

1h 54m

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Adventure

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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Sworn to preserve intergalactic order, the Green Lantern Corps has existed for centuries. Its newest recruit, Hal Jordan, is the first human to join the ranks. The Green Lanterns have little regard for humans, who have thus far been unable to harness the powers of the ring each member wears. But Jordan, a gifted and cocky test pilot, may be the corps' only hope when a new enemy called Parallax threatens the universal balance of power.

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Noisy, overproduced, and thinly written, Green Lantern squanders an impressive budget and decades of comics mythology.

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

01/22/2024

2/5

Whenever this Lantern returns to terra firma (too often), its imaginative flights are ground down under the Warner overlords’ demographic-pandering heels.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

04/02/2019

2.5/5

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.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

09/08/2017

B-

Green Lantern is not a perfect movie, but it's fun to watch.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

10/14/2024

2/5

It is definitely going to need a strong detergent to get out the green grass stains from this drag of a start.

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Noah Berlatsky

Splice Today

08/22/2024

The moments of adequacy point to a better super-Reynolds future.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

03/29/2023

1.5/4

Overcoming a personal tragedy, defeating various villains, and discovering his powers with a trendy soundtrack to guide his way, Reynolds’ Hal Jordan is plain as can be, even offensive in an age where this genre has elevated itself with dynamic films...

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Tony

04/15/2022

I love the GL, this was an ok film.

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Carter H.

@quality_finds 3d

Green Lantern is one of the best characters ever made but… The CGI space part and aliens and training, and having Hal as Ryan Reynolds Its was all amazing, especially the space city Despite the cheesiness, the first 1 hour and 15 minutes was good, the other 39 minutes kinda ruined it SPOILERS: As soon as the senators son become some powerful space alien it just made the bad parts stand out much more The whole conflict of this over powered alien just wasn’t doing it for me, and the senators son was just so hard to look at when possessed When Hal went to space and showed his bravery to the guardians that was awesome It would’ve been a good cartoon, but for what it was, it wasn’t a 4 star movie I can’t say I disliked it, and I can’t say I wasn’t mostly entertained, especially because of the character Green Lantern But at times it was ridiculous 3 stars is reasonable, 3 instead of 2 because of how cool outer space was

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Andre T.

@andrestuckmannmoviereviews Mar 11

This film feels like it belongs in the 2000´s because this movie fails in every single way possible and that is the god awful CGI and special effects that this film provides to us and that is a real shame, so for that reason this movie gets a negative review and hatetred by a lot of people which really means nothing now because this really is a terrible movie. F

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Logan S.

@Yuma1996 Mar 5

I think I’m one of the only people who genuinely loves this movie

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Evan V.

@Evan-Vaughan_Offical Feb 22

This film feels as if it is an early 2000s superhero film - which makes it cringy, predictable, and sort of boring. Even still, the concept of Green Lantern, action scenes, and story itself are a mixture of decent and pretty good.

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Tristan W.

@RT49075740 Feb 15

This movie had a fantastic script and the plot was amazing, I jjst wish they would have made the second movie bc they already put the senestro turning into a yellow lantern in it, so they should have mad the second one

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Synopsis

Sworn to preserve intergalactic order, the Green Lantern Corps has existed for centuries. Its newest recruit, Hal Jordan, is the first human to join the ranks. The Green Lanterns have little regard for humans, who have thus far been unable to harness the powers of the ring each member wears. But Jordan, a gifted and cocky test pilot, may be the corps' only hope when a new enemy called Parallax threatens the universal balance of power.

Director: Martin Campbell
Producer: Donald De Line, Greg Berlanti
Screenwriter: Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Warner Bros., DC Entertainment, De Line Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Seq. of Sci-Fi Violenc|Intense Seq. of Sci-Fi Action)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 17, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 17, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $116.6M
Runtime: 1h 54m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS

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