The Green Hornet DVD
Starring: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Michel Gondry
Rating: 1/5
The Green Hornet was the first real event movie of the year as Michael Gondry took on a more mainstream movie project.
Unfortunately The Green Hornet is the first big bore of the year a movie where nothing really happens, poor casting and a group of actors that have simply no chemistry.
Britt Reid is the son of LA's most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene -- until his father mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire.
Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato, they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime.
But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves -- protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets.
They begin hunting down the man who controls LA's gritty underworld: Benjamin Chudnofsky. But Chudnofsky has plans of his own: to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all.
Apologies to all Michael Gondry fans but this is first real dud of the year despite Reid and Kato wanting to battle crime this is a film where nothing really happens - it really is so very boring.
Seth Rogen is so badly cast it’s unreal he has turned the character of Reid, who was a rather clever and sophisticated fellow in the past, into a bumbling fool who just jumps around screaming how about how ‘cool’ everything is.
Diaz and Wilkinson are barely used - there is a good cameo from James Franco - which Waltz once again show how great a villain he is.
Jay Chou is this movie’s one saving grace as he has all the best action and all the best lines - the film would be unwatchable without him!
Gondry has produced a really dumb and unfocused movie as he stumbles from one scene to another - instead of making an interesting action flick it’s just a jumbled pile of garbage.
Sadly Gondry and co has missed out on an opportunity to bring an action hero of old back to the big screen - let’s hope we won’t be seeing a sequel!
The Green Hornet is out now
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