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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.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009