In brightest day, in blackest night…

My rating system:

5 = Perfection.
4.5 = REALLY good, but lacking that oomph to make it 5.
4 = Great.
3.5 = Above average. Definitely worth a look.
3 = Average.
2.5 = Below average. If you like its genre, you probably would like it.
2 = Not terrible, but not something you would like.
1.5 = Bad, but still worth checking JUST to make fun of how bad it is.
1 = BEWARE! EVIL! NOT EVEN WORTH MAKING FUN OF! WILL LITERALLY MAKE YOU SICK!

Rebellious test pilot Hal Jordan freezes up during a combat test, resulting in the crash of his plane. The sudden strike of fear stems from the plane accident that caused the death of his famous Air Force pilot father. As Hal tries to ignore his fears, he is suddenly transported to the location of a crashed alien spaceship. Inside is an injured Abin Sur, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, a sort of intergalactic police force. Abin Sur, with his dying breath, declares Hal as the new Green Lantern of his sector and gives him his decoder ring – erm, I mean Green Lantern ring, which gives the Green Lanterns the power to bring constructs into reality via their imagination and willpower. Now, Hal must learn exactly what it means to be a Green Lantern as the Corps’ greatest danger, Parallax, sets its sights upon Earth…

Now for the review:

The special effects in Green Lantern are a mixed bag. When they look good, they look really good. When they look bad, they look really, really bad. The CGI work for the Green Lantern Corps’ headquarters planet Oa looked well-done, albeit not shown that much. The rest, however, looks like something out of a video game cutscene. A really nice looking video game cutscene, mind you, but a really bad looking silver screen CGI scene. I don’t understand how the CGI looked so good in the trailer yet resulted in this ugly mess in theaters.