The Green Hornet

If you like Seth Rogen, go see The Green Hornet.

The Green Hornet was an interesting movie. Kato was quite a fun character to watch. The fight scenes, although often drawn out, were mostly very intense. They were shot really well and I enjoyed the unique way that Kato saw the fights, weapons outlined in red. It reminded me of the Sherlock Holmes scenes where Robert Downy JR would pre-choreograph the fight in his head using his awesome deductive reasoning skills.

Seth Rogen was hardly playing Britt Reid.... he once again played Seth Rogen. This is ok, however, if you like Seth Rogen. A lot of the comedy was low-comedy, i.e. a lot of men were kicked and/or hit in the junk.

I felt the daddy-issues were resolved a little too quickly, but it made for an interesting plot-twist. The story was time-realistic. I thought that was clever as well. When Britt knocks himself with the Gas-Gun, he is out for 11 days and wakes up with a much fuller beard. Another time, Britt is thinking, piecing parts of the puzzle together and it takes him a little bit. One of the characters says something like "I can see by the look you've had in your eye for the last 5 minutes that..."

Back to the fight scenes... they were gruesome but not graphic. People getting crushed inside of cars, stabbed with table-legs, etc. but there is minimal blood. I thought Christoph Waltz's character, Chudnofsky/Bloodnofsky was very 1-dimensional and terribly clever. He was so simple, not complex at all, yet altogether likeable as a villian.

Some of the funniest parts of the movie were subtle lines, like Waltz's explanation of the double-gun or why he wants to wear red.

I personally enjoyed seeing Edward James Olmos, but cliche, he was James Reid's number-2 man and when Britt inherited it, he tried to run the company instead of letting Britt (reminds of Jeff Bridges character in Iron Man.) They do address this issue and work it out, which was a clever change of pace.

All in all, I give the movie 3.5 stars. Worth seeing at least once, but if you aren't a Seth Rogen fan, you'd be fine to wait for it to come out before seeing it.

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, and intense sequences.