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movie review - The Green Hornet

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2019.05.11

Sometimes they make a movie where they just land on a personality and a broad plot line and start rolling the cameras. Such is The Green Hornet, which features Seth Rogan as a spoiled twit who decides to spend money on a hazily-conceived crime-fighting spree. The movie is hamstrung by a vanilla script and an unengaging main character. I felt like maybe this project started with some better source material like a comic book series or perhaps a book but the translation failed somewhere along the way.

Not recommended.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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