Monday, January 17, 2011

Green Hornet

I decided to go see The Green Hornet on Saturday night, over The Fighter. Although The Fighter won a couple of Golden Globes and had several nominations, I decided I wanted to see something funny, rather than serious and see people hit each other. Well, I did laugh a few times in The Green Hornet, but there was a lot of people hitting each other, but somehow it was not the same. Actually when I left the theatre I was quite peaceful. Surprisingly, since the movie itself it not something you want to recommend a person go see, in fact a friend had emailed not to bother go seeing it. I read that this am, two days after I went to see it.
I don't know anything about the Green Hornet, I don't know remember the TV show, or anything else around it. I had heard it was based on a comic book, and there had been a TV show.  Seth Rogan played the spoiled, neglected child/man frustratingly well. You just wanted him to disappear with his attitude. On retrospect, he did his job, you did not like him, and in the end he saw the error of his attitude.
The hero, the person who holds it all together is Kato his nameless sidekick. He was fantastic. Funny, great fighting skills, and all produced with an amount of humor. Yes, the movie could have been funnier, yes, the movie could have had 'more'. But I did not regret going. I did laugh, I did enjoy it even with getting frustrated with Seth Rogan's character. I'm not going to say run out the door to see it, but I'm glad I went.
Three stars out of five.

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