Green Lantern (2011)

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	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale)
	Actors: Ryan Reynolds (Buried, Deadpool), Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 12.08.2016, VOD, 10" tablet
Synopsis: Reckless test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds) is chosen by an alien ring that gives him power and makes him part of an intergalactic police corps.
Review: The adaptation of the super hero comics book Green Lantern was not much loved by the public, and even its main actor Ryan Reynolds makes fun of it and himself in Deadpool. Indeed it is not a revolutionary super-hero movie but it is neutral to watch, a bit like the Fantastic 4 movies in their time (not the remake, that one was painful). I was not familiar with the mythology of the Green Lantern but it seems interesting for a comics, maybe less so for a cinema adaptation: the Green Lantern are a corps of intergalactic cops powered by the energy of Will, against the bad energy of Fear. The special effects are good. Blake Lively is too obviously an eye candy, while Peter Sarsgaard plays an average villain for a short while. Not much more to say...
Rating: 4 /10