The Green Hornet (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Michel Gondry (Human Nature, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind)
	Actors: Seth Rogen (Zack & Miri make a Porno), Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds), Cameron Diaz (Charlie's Angels 1-2, There's something about Mary), Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica), Edward Furlong (Terminator 2), James Franco (Spiderman 1-3)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 09.12.2012, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: The lazy son of a millionnaire inherits a renouned newspaper when his father dies. He will team up with a coffee-maker, car-fixer Martial Arts expert to fight Crime.
Review: This improbable team of a real action hero and a useless uneducated silly rich party dude (only here to provide the money) is obviously a good source for comedy. The baseline story adapted from a Comic book series is quite original in the contemporary landscape of super-hero movies, and is closer to a Kick-Ass or Super than to a Batman, although the latter has some influence on it. In overall it is not as bad as I thought it would be, given the catastrophic reception by both the public and the critics when it was released. I was expecting something at least visually interesting from director Michel Gondry, and I got it. Beyond that, the story is indeed sometimes chaotic and confused, the reactions of the characters unbelievable and towards the end it becomes "du grand n'importe quoi", i.e. pure nonsense. But it is still interesting once you accept that you are watching a Comic book transposed to live action.
Rating: 5 /10