The music for the film might as well have been nonexistent. Completely bland and wasted, which is a damn shame since every superhero film these days require a recognizable theme to it for fans to pair the film with.

The acting presented was average around the board. There were no standout performances worth noting.

I admit Green Lantern is a tricky hero to bring to the big-screen. I'll say right now that I absolutely love DC and its heroes. However, turning them into live-action often results in much goofiness, with the obvious exception of Batman – and I guess Superman as well. Rather than invoking a sense of awe whenever Hal Jordan as Green Lantern created constructs with his ring, I just felt like I had to keep myself from chuckling at seeing poorly CGI-ed weapons and so forth. Which, I admit, might have been on purpose considering they’re being made from Hal’s mind and wouldn’t necessarily look that great. That doesn’t change how goofy it was, though. As a fan of the character, however, I thought it was pretty neat to see what he would make next during action scenes.

There were numerous writing and editing issues within Green Lantern. The film starts out with a massive information-dump of the Green Lantern comic history squeezed into a brief one minute. Already the people not familiar with the character would feel lost as they struggle through the next five minutes of back-story talk that expects its audience to know exactly what they’re talking about. It was as if they were trying to shove as much of the back-story as possible into the beginning so they could get to the actual plot. That honestly would have been more acceptable if not for the very boring story they gave us.

The ultimate problem with Green Lantern as film was the weak writing and small-scale plot. Fans that are familiar with the Green Lantern mythos expected a story that involved the larger-than-life Green Lantern Corps as Hal learns how to be one. Admittedly, that is present in the film – for all of twelve minutes. Most of the film dealt with Hal trying to overcome his fears and become a hero. Also admittedly, that would have made for an interesting character arc. However, the poor writing for the movie resulted in many boring scenes that barely covered the change in Hal’s character. The film also randomly introduced plot point and then dropped them later on without word or reason, when one would have expected them to come up again to help develop Hal. Even characters suffered from this, as some are introduced as something important and disappear for the rest of the film.

But, hey. It’s a superhero movie. Was its action any good? Well…kind of. The action scenes were very short, and few and in-between very boring character chatter scenes. Even the ending fight lasted only about five minutes.

For this DC Comics superhero-based movie, I give a:

2 out of 5

Ultimately, Green Lantern is not a bad film – for a TV movie. For a big screen summer blockbuster? It was just a massive disappointment for those excited for it. There are a few cute moments here and there, but not enough to save this boring mess of a superhero movie.

Also, the 3D was crap.

I cannot honestly recommend this film to anyone in good conscience unless you’re younger than 11-years-old. Maybe you’ll get a kick out of it then.

Green Lantern was produced by DC Entertainment and De Line Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.