Directed by:
Michel GondryCinematography:
John SchwartzmanComposer:
James Newton HowardCast:
Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz, David Harbour, Edward James Olmos, Edward Furlong, Jamie Harris, Chad L. Coleman (more)VOD (3)
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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. But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves – protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets. The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves, and with the help of Britt’s new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they begin hunting down the man who controls LA’s gritty underworld: Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). But Chudnofsky has plans of his own: to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all. (Columbia/Sony)
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For me, a massively pleasant surprise. Green Hornet was a lot of fun, both with the straightforward jokes and with the way it mocks itself (when the villain puts on a red robe and a gas mask is just hilarious… though not everyone will share that opinion) and other films in the genre (the ending similar to the fateful conclusion of The Dark Night). Gondry made it incredibly brisk and playful, like the fooling around of boys unbound by ethics. And the reflection on how the media manipulates with public opinion is not as cheap as you would expect from a comic-book film. I watched it in 2D, I don’t think the 3D version could be any better.
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Strange, but it works. The best thing about Green Hornet is Christoph Waltz who you will just fall in love with. The action is choice, with Gondry often pulling extra treats out of the hat. In fact, I got what I expected. All right. Chudnofsky, kiss my ass. Put your lips to my ass and kiss it. French kiss it. Tickle it with your grey whiskers. I got bittersweet news for you. You're washed up. You're old. You're boring. You're not scary. You dress like shit. It's over for you, okay? That's the bitter news. Now the sweet news is: You can retire. You can go play golf, eat dinner at 3:00 in the afternoon, play with your grandkids, drink Metamucil, old people shit. Okay? Look at me. I got a name people can say. My name’s Danny Clear. I deal with crystal meth. People call me Crystal Clear. It’s easy. Check out my kick-ass hangout here. I got shit loads of glass everywhere. I got a see-through piano. Look at my boys. They're pimped out. We got Gucci, Armani, another Gucci, tailor-made. This is what you need to get to the top today. Not hard work. Not looking like Disco Santa Claus. You need charisma. You look like my Uncle Greg. Very nice guy, but, he's a dentist. Now consider this your retirement letter. Boom. It's over. See you way out.
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The Green Hornet is a brisk and bracing ride that strongly evoked the atmosphere of last year's Kick-Ass. It delivers a perfect action spectacle and a large number of fights and chases. Poor Kato, growing up in a poor neighborhood and having such a jerk for a boss (played brilliantly by Seth Rogen). Christoph Waltz is awesome after Inglorious Basterds and here he got me again, Mr. Chudnofsky vs. Mr. Bloodnofsky. In short, a film with a classy cast, music and effects that is more action packed than a driving school final test.
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I have to say, I definitely expected a bit more from this movie than what I ultimately got, but in the end, it's not all that bad. It's just not that special. Christoph Waltz is absolutely excellent, and it's great that he can poke a little fun at himself. Seth Rogen doesn't really stand out in this and is rather annoying. I was quite surprised that Michel Gondry's direction is overly conventional for the genre. This resulted in a rather unremarkable piece that will likely be forgotten.
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Yup, the hillbilly rhetoric and horny teenager humor are more or less Rogen's trademark, which is certainly not a complaint by me. However, the script full of infantile humor is tamed by Gondry in the end. He put the perfect stamp of exaggeration on it and turned all that instantaneous crap into a perfect hit, which pleases especially during the action, when playfulness, original ideas, and wit are combined. No, this wasn't supposed to be the second Kick-Ass, but it definitely is the third Iron Man.
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