the Fretless Bass reviews: The Green Hornet.

Movies are made to make you pumped up after you see them, so you tell all your friends, "IT WAS AWESOME!!!!" So when you are a reviewer, you need to wait a little bit and think hard about the movie before you make conclusions. This was especially the case with The Green Hornet (flawless transition), which is as action-filled, and adrenalin-charged as any movie. I came out of that movie loving it, but after some thought I came to the conclusion that The Green Hornet is a "meh" movie disguised as a really good one.

First off I will continue my vendetta against 3D, in which The Green Hornet was filmed. I don't think it was even made for 3D, the lack of 3D moments tells me that they just made it into 3D in the editing room. Truth be told, 3D didn't ruin The Green Hornet, it would have been just as mediocre without the influence of Avatar. What really grinds my gears is how the production team obviously thought it would help the movie. 3D isn't for every movie. Avatar and 3D worked well together because Avatar had really good visuals, but 3D isn't what made that movie (Let me clarify right now, I thought Avatar looked fantastic, and I saw it without 3D, it did stand up on its own without it. What I hated about Avatar was its predictability and the plot). So the production team thought 3D would help The Green Hornet, but the truth is, 3D didn't affect the experience for me at all.

Detail time. The Green Hornet was entertaining, but will I remember it in a year, no. Why? My biggest issue was that there was this whole deal where both main characters liked their secretary, and were jealous of each other over her, and they resolved it, but I didn't get any closure on the issue. The movie didn't even give the resolution its own scene, just at some point it said, "Ok, that's over, now back to the gun violence." Which is another thing, for heroes, the protagonists seemed to have no problem pumping their enemies full of lead. This would be ok if the movie were a morality play. "Is fighting crime worth hurting so many people?" or, "Can violence to stop violence be justified?" But no, the movie shows these men brutally killing people, and portraying them as totally moral heroes.

I also didn't like the predictability of the movie. I'm not going to tell you about the plot points I predicted because I don't want to spoil it for you. I predicted how the movie would go from the third or fourth scene.

Lastly, Seth Rogen was a perfect choice for the main character; the movie may have fallen short, but Seth was fantastic. Sadly, Mr. Rogen's performance did nothing to make the sting of this hornet enter my soul. Perhaps if the movie had more of a message, or if I believed the heroes were doing good for the right reasons, I may not have just crucified it the way I did, but nay, this hornet has no sting.