Green Lantern Review

Green Lantern

Release Date: 4th August 2011 - Australia


Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures (presents)
De Line Pictures
DC Entertainment

Distribution
Roadshow Films


Genre: Sci-Fi/Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 114 minutes

Budget: $200,000,000

Box Office Gross: $219,851,172 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary
Hal Jordan is a talented but reckless test pilot who becomes the first human recruited into the brotherhood of intergalactic peacekeepers known as the Green Lantern Corps. Unfortunately for Hal, the Green Lanterns have no respect for humans as they have never seen a being so primitive that could wield the infinite powers of the ring before. The ring grants him superpowers. Hal has determination and willpower and has the one thing no Green Lantern has ever had: humanity. Hal has to master his newfound powers with the support of fellow pilot/childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris. He must defend his homeworld of Earth from an evil being

called Parallax, who is

intent on upsetting the

balance of power in the

universe as the fate of Earth

and humanity are both at

stake!

Cast
Ryan Reynolds - Hal Jordan
Blake Lively - Carol Ferris
Peter Sarsgaard - Dr. Hector Hammond
Mark Strong - Thaal Sinestro
Angela Bassett - Dr. Amanda Waller
Tim Robbins - Robert Hammond
Temuera Morrison - Abin Sur
Taika Waititi - Thomas Kalmaku
Geoffrey Rush - Tomar-Re (Voice)
Michael Clarke Duncan - Kilowog (Voice)
Clancy Brown - Parallax (Voice)
Jay O. Sanders - Carl Ferris
Mike Doyle - Jack Jordan
Nick Jandl - Jim Jordan
Leanne Cochran - Janice Jordan
Dylan James - Jason Jordan
John Tenney - John Jordan

Gattlin Griffith - Young Hal
Jenna Craig - Young Carol
Marcela Duarte Fonseca - Beautiful Girl
Jeff Wolfe - Bob Banks
Warren Burton - First Guardian
Salome Jems - Female Guardian

Crew
Director - Martin Campbell
Creators: "Green Lantern" Characters - John Broome

and Gil Kane (Uncredited)

Screen Story/Screenplay/Producer -
Greg Berlanti
Screen Story/Screenplay - Michael Green
and Marc Guggenheim
Screenplay - Michael Goldenberg

Executive Producer/Unit Production Manager - Herbert W. Gains
Executive Producer - Andrew Haas
Producer - Donald De Line
Co-Producers - Geoff Johns and Lucienne Papon
Production Designer - Grant Major

Illustrators - Rodolfo Damaggio,

Seth Engstrom, Fabian Lacey, Michele Moen,

Paul Ozzino, Justin Sweet, Chris Ross

and Alexander Laurant

Supervising Art Director - François Audouy
Art Directors - Iain McFayden,
Scott Plauche, Andrew L. Jones and

Carl Horner (Uncredited)
Creature Design - Neville Page,

Tully Summers and Aaron Sims
Set Decorator - Anne Kuljian

Property Master - Drew Petrotta
Costume Designer - Ngila Dickson

Assistant Costume Designers - Libby Dempster

and Carlos Rosario

Special Effects Makeup Supervisors -

Richie Alonzo and David Dupuis

Special Effects Makeup Department Head -

Joel Harlow
Director of Photography - Dion Beebe

Aerial Directors of Photography: Second Unit -

David B. Nowell and Phil Pastuhov

Director of Photography/"A" Camera Operator:

Second Unit - Brad Shield

Supervising Location Manager - William Doyle

First Assistant Director - Bruce Moriarty

First Assistant Director: Second Unit - Julian Wall

Additional First Assistant Director: Second Unit -

Michael Viglietta
Second Unit Director - John Mahaffie
Stunt Coordinator - Gary Powell
Special Effects Supervisor - Clay Pinney
Visual Effects Supervisor - John 'D.J.' Des Jardin

Visual Effects Supervisor: Peerless -

Kent Houston

Additional Visual Effects Supervisor -

Gregory L. McMurry

Visual Effects Producer - Alex Bicknell

Visual Effects Producer: SPI - Crys Forsyth-Smith

Digital Effects Supervisors: SPI -

David Alexander Smith and Peter M. Nofz

Previsualisation: Pixel Liberation Front -

Kyle Robinson, Duane Floch,

Raffael Dickeuter, Michael Graweri,

Diana Velasquez, Manitoba Mizobuchi,

Simon Halpern, Faris Hermiz and

Andrew Swihart

Animation Supervisor: SPI - David Schaub

CG Supervisors: SPI - Theo Bialek,

Ryan Laney, David Seager, Terrance Tornberg,

Craig Wentworth and Robert Winter

Supervisors: SPI - Francisco De Jesus,

JD Cowles, Benjamin Hendricks,

Stephen Marshal and Gomathi Ramalingam

Editor - Stuart Baird

Additional Editor - Christopher Rouse

Supervising Sound Editors - Karen Baker Landers

and Per Hallberg

Sound Designers - Christopher Assels,

Harry Cohen, Dino Dimuro,

Scott Martin Gershin, Peter Staubli

and Shannon Mills (Uncredited)

Re-Recording Mixers - Rick Kline,

John T. Reitz and Gregg Rudloff

Additional Re-Recording Mixers - Michael Keller

and Mike Prestwood Smith
Music - James Newton Howard

Ambient Music Design - Mel Wesson

Score Recordist and Mixer - Shawn Murphy


Review
GREEN LANTERN is a superhero picture that retells the story based on the original DC comic series. This movie is loaded with comedy and action sequences and got complimented by the talented acting of Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. Unfortunately, it got brought down by mild setbacks such as a cliched plot and overproduced computer-generated visuals, especially the suit that looks fake. Director Martin Campbell has never done a big-budgeted visual spectacle like this, and he deserves better than the mediocre script and visuals.

It is a good movie despite its shortcomings. It is left suggesting a possibility for a second instalment.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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