Here's the thing about super hero movies, is that they have this great capacity to allure young men into their web of action adventure and mystery.Well sometimes that web turns out to be nice suprise , but sometimes it turns out your in a big spider waiting to be devoured by the fake promise of that tight panted superhero. So its not suprising i decided to go for the The Green Hornet the very day it was released and Boy was i caught in that spider's web.Am sure many of you like me wouldnt even have known the Green hornet existed before this movie got released.
Here's a short synopsis to horn out Your Brains-
Britt Reid, son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato. They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid's shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case, they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky. He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.
Here's the problem with this movie it tries so hard to be everything- Funny , Action packed , deep seated mystery about the hero , a beautiful lass to save and all the materials you need for a great movie. But at the end of the day Seth rogen's kills the movie along with the villian (omg the villan sucks , i know spoilers right ). Cameron diaz provides atleast a bit of eye candy reminiscent of her role in the Mask . Other than that you just get bored with all the comical style direction and poor slapstick humour.
Movie Details-
Directed by Michel Gondry
Produced by Neal H. Moritz
Written by Seth Rogen
Evan Goldberg
Based on The Green Hornet by
George W. Trendle
Fran Striker
Starring Seth Rogen
Jay Chou
Christoph Waltz
Cameron Diaz
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography John Schwartzman
Editing by Michael Tronick
Studio Original Film
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) January 14, 2011 (2011-01-14)
Running time 119 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $120 million
Gross revenue $217,249,389
Theater seen from- Crown theater , Calicut city
Audience recommended to- Die hard Green hornet Fans( if there are any), Die hard Seth Rogen fans( who after this movie don't exist) and really bored people and also die hard Cameron diaz fans ( am sure there are millions)
Final word-
I am going for 2/5 for this movie . Go for this for the only reason imaginable - Cameron Diaz ( oh yeah ;).
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