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| Ryan Reynolds is Hal Jordan in Green Lantern. |
By Clarissa du Plessis
Green Lantern 3D (Directed by Martin Campbell). With Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins.
If you are a big fan of comic book movie adaptations such as Spider-Man or Superman, you know that in some cases these adaptations will include a thin to moderate layer of cheese.
Luckily Green Lantern’s movie adaptation takes it easy on the cheesy-ness (think extra thin cheese) and delivers a good comic-to-movie offering.
Ryan Reynolds portrays Hal Jordan, a test pilot with a big chip on his shoulder. His father died in an airplane accident right before his eyes when he was a kid and as an adult he is still haunted by the memory.
After messing up a huge contract opportunity for his childhood friend Carol (Lively), Hal heads to his family for a birthday party, but gets whisked away afterwards – in a green forcefield bubble.
Hal ends up next to a harbour where a spacecraft has crashed. He finds a badly injured alien and even though he manages to drag him to shore, it is obvious that the alien is not going to live. Said alien then gives a green ring to Hal, telling him that the ring chose him.
Hal soon discovers that this magical ring chose him to become part of the Green Lantern Corps, a group of beings tasked with protecting the universe with the aid of the magic powers of their rings.
And there is a really ugly piece of evil heading closer to earth...
Green Lantern is a pretty cool movie with impressive special effects, a sleek design and interesting characters, and hopefully the rumoured sequel will happen (the hidden scene in the credits creates an expectation for this).
Green Lantern might not be the best superhero movie you have ever seen, but it could just come close.
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