The Green Hornet [M]

When his father passes away, it falls upon Britt to follow in his dad’s footsteps and take over the family business. But unfortunately Britt is not cut out for the job. When he befriends a talented engineer that worked for his father, an unholy alliance is forged and the two decide to become superheroes by taking over the criminal underworld. But they’re about to discover that it’s not going to be as easy they thought. 

My brother and I were bored today so we decided to escort ourselves to the movies for a nice quiet afternoon of action, violence, and explosions. We received all this in The Green Hornet. “What happens when you corner a hornet? You get stung!” 

When his father passes away, it falls upon Britt to follow in his dad’s footsteps and take over the family business: the family paper. But unfortunately Britt is not cut out for the job. However, when he befriends a talented engineer named Kato, the two form an unholy alliance and, through a simple act of vandalism, decide to become superheroes by taking over the criminal underworld. Using the family paper to gain public awareness, Britt becomes The Green Hornet and with Kato at his side, he’s taking down the underworld, one thug group at a time. But when the head of the underworld becomes threatened it starts to get ugly, and soon Britt realises that he’s not cut out for the hero job either. 

This was actually not a bad movie. It had a light-hearted comedy script, plenty of action, car chases, gadgets and all that stuff, as well as some rather gruesome deaths. 

Seth Rogan stars as Britt and he was rather entertaining. I admit that about halfway through the movie, you just start to become sick of his voice, but all in all he was rather funny and just a big kid. 

Jay Chou stars as Kato, and really this film was all about him. He was meek, convinced of his own brilliance, silent, but deadly. He was just awesome! 

Starring Cameron Diaz, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz, David Harbour, and James Franco, The Green Hornet was a fun action movie filled with cool gadgets, awesome special effects, heaps of explosions, a few gruesome deaths, and plenty of comedy. We saw the action in 3D, which made it all the more exciting, but we’ll still need to rent it when it comes out on DVD before we decide whether or not to add it to the collection.