Movie Review: The Green Hornet

Synopsis: Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of LA's most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene - until his father (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime.

Really more of a parody of super hero movies than an actual super hero movie, it's sort of a campy, spoofy, origin story that is occasionally entertaining and fun with a few laughs, but nothing really special. It does have a very nice visual style to it and some decent action though.

At times it goes a direction that is a totally different take on the genre and has a bit of inventivness to it, but overall is sort of uneven. I do really like Kato as he delivers some nice ass-kickings with dry wit and worked very well as a sidekick to the overbearing Rogen character. I would probably see a sequel to this if they made one (they won't) just for Kato. Seth Rogen is OK I guess, but most of his one-liners are a bit flat and I only got a few laughs from his obnoxious character. Cameron Diaz is here but she doesn't do a whole lot frankly.

I also think it runs a bit too long and could have done with about 15 or 20 minutes chopped off.

Overall it's a decent, ocassionally funny action/bromance that has some nice flashy lights, whistles and bells to keep your interest but is probably pretty forgetable soon after.

6/10