Green Lantern - It's called courage

This review is on Green Lantern Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Peter Sarsgaard. The director was Martin Campbell who also did Casino Royale and Goldeneye. This is one of the movies I have been hearing that a lot of people want to see. Before I get into this I have a real serious issue with superhero movies these days. They need to make a rule, only one actor per hero. Yes I am looking at you Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans. For those of you who don't know Evans played Johnny Storm or better know as the Human Torch. But he is also playing Steve Rogers/Captain America. He was also in The Losers, Scott Pilgrim VS. the World, all comics. Come on dude get some diversity. But what happens when they do a major cross over such as the Civil War. In the marvel universe that was a pretty big thing and what are you going to do when the Human Torch and Captain America need to be in the same scene? Yeah its stupid and it needs to stop. But I digress. The Green Lantern starts the movie off with Hal Jordan being reckless and mouthy, typical for a Reynolds character. Thank god he is reprising his role in the upcoming Deadpool film in 2014. Jordan is a pilot whom is flying fighter jets with his partner played by Blake. Against two unbeatable jets completely unmanned controlled by A.I.. Well Hal taking this as a challenge and does something stupid and this whole Topgun thing kicks in. An event that happened in his past triggers in his mind causing him to freak out. Sure it has a little relevance to the lesson in this movie but I honestly didn't give a rats ass about it. So skipping ahead and Jordan obtains his powers and is left with the struggle in his mind if he is worthy of such a gift. Will he let his old self get in the way of him becoming the hero the universe needs him to be? There is another major thing that I didn't really care for and that's his suit. It was completely CG, really? You couldn't make a decent Green Lantern costume? His suit was very distracting to me, and the almost cartoony CG at times took me out of the experience. But in a nutshell this was a good movie, I liked the growth of the characters. I felt a sense of urgency when the protagonist was causing its mayhem. Plus it kinda creeps me out. Reynolds did a good job playing sort of the same role he always does. But I truly think he was meant for Deadpool. I have mixed feelings about this movie. It was very fun to watch but flawed in ways that I felt I was nitpicking. I give Green Lantern a 2 1/2 out of 4. It was good and I really wanted to love this movie but we could only be friends...don't call me I'll call you. It was a nice first try on a DC comic going to film. Super Man and Batman can't be the only heavy hitters. Oh, stay after the first batch of credits there is a little surprise. Maybe a little teaser for a sequel?