Green Lantern: Critic Reviews

Cornball dialogue and poor characterizations drag down the successes of the incredible visual effects.

Darting between Earth and the rest of the cosmos, Green Lantern can be fun as spectacle (which is why kids may go for it), yet the whole movie is eye candy, and not much more.

"Green Lantern" is bad.

Reynolds - so good in recent movies like Buried and The Nines - just looks like a slice of inert beefcake.

Lantern rarely taps the charm Reynolds has shown in previous films. Consequently, it's hard to imagine why the nebulous Corps chose a cypher such as Hal as its savior.

Neither amusing nor exciting enough to ensure a long-running franchise.

Green, we're told at some point in "Green Lantern,'' is the color of will. Based on the movie surrounding that line, it's also the color of won't. Won't make sense. Won't satisfy a soul. Possibly won't make a dime.

Campbell's ADD style privileges spectacle over story -- so much so that the film never rewards the viewer for even trying to keep track of what is going on.

More "Daredevil" than "Dark Knight."

Mr. Sarsgaard succeeds in creating a real guy with real passions. Apart from him there's nada.

Half-campy, half-compelling.

Green Lantern opens with the words "Billions of years ago..." Take that as a sign of just how much time this ostensible action movie spends explaining itself.

...a pretty joyless comic book movie experience.

Apart from having no particular reason to exist onscreen, especially at these prices, it's not half bad.

"Green Lantern" does not intend to be plausible. It intends to be a sound-and-light show, assaulting the audience with sensational special effects. If that's what you want, that's what you get.

Only in fits and starts, mostly in the most earthbound scenes between Reynolds and Blake Lively, does "Green Lantern" offer traces of real personality.

The result is a deadly disappointment, despite Ryan Reynolds's cocky, muscle-flexing charisma.

About as enjoyable as an explosion in the mold lab.

A mind-numbing, misguided pandemonium that ranks as the biggest comic book misfire since "Batman & Robin" battled Poison Ivy.

As a disjointed rumble in the cosmos, it's both too much and too little, and too dorky looking. In this case, Green means stop.

Even in the brainless world of cinematic comic books gone bad, it's as bad as it gets -- a dumb, pointless, ugly, moronic and incomprehensible jumble of botched effects, technical blunders, and cluttered chaos.

Martin Campbell's visually lavish sci-fi adventure is a highly unstable alloy of the serious, the goofy and the downright derivative.

A relentlessly silly superhero flick with eyeball-rolling dialogue - set in vast, familiar-looking digital realms that look like rejected models from the second "Star Wars" trilogy.

"Green Lantern" isn't "Jonah Hex" bad. But it's silly enough to be part of the same "silliest Warner Brothers comic book summer movies of all time" conversation.

Campbell seems unsure of what to do with one of the most shopworn figures from the DC Comics stable.