A Movie Quest: # 5 The Green Lantern
January 11th 2012 14:10
For the fifth movie of my quest I choose The Green Lantern. Even thou the movie was released on DVD back in October, I had not yet watch the movie.
Green Lantern is a 2011 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins, with Martin Campbell directing a script by Greg Berlanti and comic book writers Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, which was subsequently rewritten by Michael Goldenberg. Green Lantern tells the story of Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is selected to become the first human member of the Green Lantern Corps and given a ring that grants him superpowers after a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the universe.
Plot:
Millions of years before the Earth was formed, a group of beings called the Guardians of the Universe used the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. They split the universe into 3,600 sectors, with one Green Lantern per sector. One such Green Lantern, Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison) of Sector 2814, defeated the fear-essence being Parallax (voiced by Clancy Brown) and imprisoned him in the Lost Sector on the ruined planet Ryut. However, in the present day, Parallax escapes from his prison. Six months later, after killing four Green Lanterns and destroying three planets, Parallax attacks Sector 2814 and mortally wounds Abin Sur, who escapes and crash-lands on Earth. The dying Abin Sur commands his ring to find a worthy successor on the planet.
Box office:
Release date(s) June 17, 2011
Running time
114 minutes
Extended Cut: 123 mins.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $200 million
Box office $219,851,172
DVD Release:
Green Lantern has been released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 14, 2011
I enjoyed this movie. It started very slow for my taste but got better as it went on. Hopeful the do the sequel as planned. Cast was very good i thought.
Rating: I give this movie a 6.5 stars out of 10
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