The green hornet

Eren Gurel
 H4A

Why this movie?

I’ve seen this movie a week ago in the theatre Pathe Schouwburgplein and I still
remember a lot of the plot. I went to the movie, because I have seen a trailer on
pathe.nl and that showed that this film was nice. There are 2 versions of the movie
the 3D version and IMAX 3D. I went to the IMAX 3D version. I found the movie very
entertaining to watch, there’s a lot of action and comedy in it and the quality of the
movie was very good (IMAX).

General information
Directed by: Mihel Gondry
Produced by: Neal H. Moritz
Written by: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Music by: James Newton Howard
Cinematography: John Schwartzman
Editing by: Michael Tronick
Studio: Original Film
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release date: January 14,2011
Budget $120million
Gross revenue $56,100,000

Cast

Seth Rogen as Britt Reid, a wealthy newspaper publisher who is secretly the masked
superhero ‘The Green Hornet’.

Jay Chou as Kato, a personal mechanic who becomes the Green Hornet’s best buddy
and sidekick.

Christoph Waltz as Benjamin Chudnofsky, a Russian gangster who plans to join all of
the crime families of Los Angeles together to a "super-mafia."

Cameron Diaz as Lenore Casey. Both Reid and Kato are in love with her.

Tom Wilkinson as James Reid, Britt's rich father and successful newspaper publisher
 On the left you see Kato, he is dressed
as the sidekick of The Green Hornet
Dressed in Black.

On the right you see The Green Hornet

dressed in green of course.

The film location was in Hollywood, LA.

The story is told in a chronological order.
The scene that stick the most to me was
the last action scene. Where kato and britt hurried to the newspaper office to upload
a file that will stop all the crime in Los Angeles. And the whole mafia was chasing
them and gun fire here and there. It was just too much to explain. You could say
that a big part of the movie was action but also comedy played a huge role in it. I
had laughed several times when I was watching the film.

Review by: Katy rich

source: http://www.cinemablend.com/

The Green Hornet is the combination of a lot of things we never expected or

necessarily wanted to see working together-- the writers of Superbad, the director
of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the star of Knocked Up, and a second-tier
comic book property known primarily for bringing Bruce Lee to American television.
It's still unclear why exactly we need The Green Hornet again, especially in this era
of superhero overload, but the movie The Green Hornet, shaggy and inconsistent as
it is, makes a pretty good argument for its own existence all the same.

I saw The Green Hornet at an advance screening earlier this week, and I'm not
allowed to tell you too much about it, though to get into specific details would
require untangling the movie's messy script, an effort that's not really worth it. I'll tell
you that the audience I saw it with-- mostly regular people, a handful of critics--
were with it the whole time, laughing consistently and engaging in all of the action
scenes in exactly the way they were meant to. It's not a hard movie to get on board
with-- after some strained exposition scenes establishing the character of spoiled rich
boy Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) and his newspaper magnate father (Tom Wilkinson) he's
grown up resenting, we jump into the now-familiar origin story of a man compelled
to do good in the world by donning an outfit, picking up some cool weapons, and
kicking bad guy ass. 

Screenwriters Rogen and Evan Goldberg proved with both Superbad and Pineapple

Express that they've got a knack for writing funny, tender friendships between men,
and they've done it again in all the scenes between Britt and Kato (Jay Chou), the
mechanics whiz and martial arts expert Britt adopts as a sidekick. Chou acquits
himself remarkably well in his first English-language role, and Rogen's natural
likability shines through with Britt, a character who never quits figure out how to
stop being so selfish even when he's ostensibly out fighting crime. Like any good
Rogen and Goldberg movie The Green Hornet is best viewed as a platonic buddy
romance, and the scenes between Britt and Kato as they play with their high-tech
toys or even deal with their own issues of jealousy are the best parts of the film by
far. 

The problem with the movie is in the writing about everything else, particularly the
big evil bad guy plot that drives the second half of the film. Christoph Waltz, in his
first role since the iconic Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, shows glimpses of
comedic skill from time to time, but the character is generally too underwritten and
underutilized to make much impact. And Cameron Diaz, playing Britt's secretary and
totally the brains behind the Green Hornet operation, is sparky and pretty but
underused as well. 

The good news is that Michel Gondry, coming off the underperforming but tender Be
Kind Rewind, acquits himself quite well as an action director, and tosses in some
trademark moments of whimsy and imagination that do a lot to augment the slack
script. The story, for all its moments of inconsistent logic and tired cliches, is swift
and economical, and Gondry directs with a practical eye that still leaves a little room
for more inventive moments. Best of all, the comedic energy rarely flags, with
Gondry trusting his actors to build their own rapport together but also hitting the
beats of the jokes just right. It's not the funniest movie you'll see or the best action
movie, but the hybrid works well for the most part. Even when the script feels shaky
or certain emotions or plot developments unearned, the movie stays entertaining.

It was smart of Sony to hold The Green Hornet until January, a release window when
there's rarely anything worth seeing out there, and when a movie that's as
misshapen but endearing as The Green Hornet should be able to do well. Though I
wish it were a better movie, and especially that Rogen and Goldberg had brought in
someone with a better sense of action pacing to write the script, I'm rooting for The
Green Hornet on behalf of everyone involved. It's not that this is their best work, but
they all deserve a hit, and in it stronger moments the movie reminds us of why we
liked all of these guys so much to begin with. 

The film is made for amusement purpose only that by the plot isn’t that good. But
that doesn’t mean that this movie is not worth watching. The quality is great but I
feel scammed of the 3D part. I find the 3D not as realistic as in other movies. I did
had high expectations for this movie but overall I still enjoyed watching it. So I rate
this movie a 7 out of 10, if you like comedy and action this is a movie definitely
worth watching.