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- 2011
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 2011
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
Summary Britt Reid, son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato. They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives ...
Directed By: Michel Gondry
Written By: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, George W. Trendle, Chuck Pfarrer
- 2011
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 2011
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
The Green Hornet
39
7.5
Where to Watch
Summary Britt Reid, son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato. They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives ...
Directed By: Michel Gondry
Written By: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, George W. Trendle, Chuck Pfarrer
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
39
26% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
44% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
31% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
39
26% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
44% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
31% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Turns out, Michel Gondry has crafted an irreverently funny, ultramodern take on the 1930s radio serial.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 680 User Ratings
7.5
66% Positive
447 Ratings
447 Ratings
23% Mixed
156 Ratings
156 Ratings
11% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 680 User Ratings
7.5
66% Positive
447 Ratings
447 Ratings
23% Mixed
156 Ratings
156 Ratings
11% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
It's a strange, shapeless, rarely satisfying, but generally amiable movie in which everyone appears to be faking it as they go along, and almost-almost-getting away with it.
Too much. Too numbing. Too coy. And ultimately too violent.
The Green Hornet provides a half-hour's worth of mildly entertaining travesty before collapsing in a clamor of bombastic action sequences and lame wisecracks.
There's nothing here but a concept and a marketing and merchandising strategy, at the center of which somebody - oh, no - had to come up with an actual movie.
May not be the most tedious superhero movie ever - the competition is admittedly tough - but it is certainly in the running.
The Green Hornet's plot is alright but it could be a lot better. The characters throughout this movie are pretty fun especially Green Hornet (Seth Rogen) he brings a lot of energy to his character but Kato (Jay Chou) feels like a wasted character throughout this movie.
I thought the action sequences were quite fun and bloody, especially that one nearer to the end, that ones honestly brutal.
The funny moments were pretty hit and miss in my opinion, there's quite a few which work quite well and there's quite a few that don't but the ones that do, are actually pretty funny.
Overall, The Green Hornet is alright but it needs a better script and some more better and funny scenes with Kato, this is pretty much so he doesn't feel like a completely wasted character throughout this movie.
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I know, it was pretty hard for me to imagine Seth Rogan as a superhero too, but as it turns out things aren't exactly as they appear. In this 2011 re-imaging of the series, Rogan play Britt Reid, the son of a billionaire publisher, who (surprise surprise) is a big time party animal, with no real ambition in life. When his father passes away suddenly, Reid is given this huge empire to run and with no idea how to do it, he starts to lean on the people around him, people like Kato (Jay Chou). Reid knew Kato for years, but knew nothing of what he could create and nothing of the skills he was capable of. With Kato's help, Reid decided to take on crime in the city, only one problem, he **** at it. This film may be the most evenly scored film I've ever reviewed, because I can honestly say my like and dislikes were exactly fifty-fifty, most notably were the cast. Seth Rogan in the right setting is brilliant and in the wrong setting is just annoying as hell, with that hardly laugh and his never taking anything seriously, it is perhaps never more abundantly apparent as it is here. Cameron Diaz also adds nothing to the cast, but name recognition and a lazy one sided performance. On the other hand, Jay Chou was fantastic as Kato, he was clever, funny, exciting, and in my opinion he made this movie, it simply isn't a superhero film with him. Then there is Christoph Waltz, the man with the mesmerizing voice who forever capture our attention in Inglorious ****, and has been the quintessential bad guy in everything since. The bottom line is the new Green Hornet isn't without it's problems, but the story here is better than I expected it to be, there are some stand outs among the cast, and the special effects and fight scenes were hit or miss. This is the kind of film you'll be into or you won't. Just like my list, audiences are going to be fifty-fifty on the one as well.
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Am I seeing a completely different movie or is it that Metacritic doesn't have a poster for this movie? I mean the Green Hornet I am reviewing has Seth Rogen in it. Yep, that's possibly it. The Green Hornet needs to stay with the action and not the comedy. Out with the comedy, in with the action.
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This film is bad and boring. i watched it on the dvd and i didn't even enjoy it then. It had no quality and the characters were not well done and a little boring. I like Christopher Waltz being the bad guy and that's all i assumed from that movie. A bad movie and a great bad guy.
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Original Film,
K/O Camera Toys
Release Date Jan 14, 2011
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Protect the law by breaking it.
Awards
California on Location Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
World Stunt Awards
• 3 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 2 Nominations
