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Jun 15, 2011 · The movie stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, a test pilot who proves that humans are better at flying fighter planes than computers. His fellow pilot is Carol Ferris ( Blake Lively ), the daughter of the tycoon Carl Ferris ( Jay O. Sanders ), who manufactures the fighters.
25% Tomatometer 250 Reviews 45% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings Sworn to preserve intergalactic order, the Green Lantern Corps has existed for centuries. Its newest recruit, Hal Jordan (Ryan ...
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Green Lantern Reviews. Whenever this Lantern returns to terra firma (too often), its imaginative flights are ground down under the Warner overlords’ demographic-pandering heels. Full Review...
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By Samantha Nelson
Posted: Jul 23, 2022 3:00 pm
Green Lantern: Beware My Power is available on Blu-ray and digital on July 26, 2022.
DC Comics have filled the ranks of the Green Lantern Corps with a large and diverse roster of humans and aliens serving as intergalactic peacekeepers, but adaptations have mostly centered on the Silver Age Green Lantern Hal Jordan. Green Lantern: Beware My Power, the latest film in DC’s Tomorrowverse animated movie continuity, aims to formally pass the mantle to Marine Corps veteran John Stewart (Aldis Hodge) — a natural choice given the character has been part of comics canon since the ‘70s and was a core member of the Justice League animated series. Unfortunately, the film fails to live up to its own lofty ambitions, delivering a muddy moral message and a story bogged down by far too many other characters.
This triggers the first of many sequences in the film where the heroes initially fight to show off their powers and relative strengths before realizing this is all a big misunderstanding. Wamester and writers Ernie Altbacker and John Semper seem to assume viewers have a knowledge of DC characters that extends well beyond the current DC animated film continuity, introducing Martian Manhunter (Ike Amadi), Vixen (Keesha Sharp), and Green Arrow (Jimmi Simpson) with relatively little explanation before sending John and Green Arrow into space to investigate what happened to Hal Jordan (Nolan North) and why his boss Ganthet (Jason J. Lewis) needed to hand-deliver John’s ring.
The investigation, which starts out satisfyingly twisty, puts them into the middle of a war between the planets Thanagar and Rann, a retelling of a 2005 event by Dave Gibbons. This isn’t the only extremely dense comics event that the writers are trying to jam into a film that clocks in at less than 90 minutes and also seems to be setting the stage for a future meta-gene-focused plot. The overstuffed story does a disservice to John, stealing his spotlight in favor of introducing a constant stream of new characters that have to awkwardly recite their backstories. Powerful comics villains are reduced to nameless minions for the assembled heroes to fight or are dispatched far too easily so that the plot can swiftly move onto the next phase of the rapidly escalating stakes.
Green Lantern: Beware My Power leans into the cosmic scale Green Lantern stories are capable of by drawing from two major comic book arcs. Unfortunately, writers Ernie Altbacker and John Semper and director Jeff Wamester can’t actually live up to their grand ambitions, failing to do those storylines justice while also robbing John Stewart of a sati...
Green Lantern is not the worst superhero movie, but far from the best either. For me it was just a mildly average and somewhat bland movie, that didn't live up to the potential it had.
Entertaining but superficial superhero thriller. Read Common Sense Media's Green Lantern review, age rating, and parents guide.
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Jun 16, 2011 · “Green Lantern” is rated PG-13. (Parents strongly cautioned). It has bloodless violence, including a scene of patricide that may be too intense for wee viewers.
