Seth Rogan produces and stars in the new action flick, The Green Hornet this week.
After on hour and forty-eight minutes, I was walking out of the theater literally talking to myself saying, "Sheesh, hope we don't have to go through that again!" Good gravy man, are we really out of ideas to the degree that we have to go see Seth Rogan as a supposed superhero?
TGH is based of course on the 1960's TV show of the same name. A young son of a media tycoon has to take over the newspaper that his father founded after his untimely death. Trouble is, all Britt (Rogan) wants to do is party and womanize. Britt then meets Kato. Kato was his fathers most trusted employee. Kato is also a mechanical genius who invents amazing gadgets, and he is a martial arts expert. This role is what made the late Bruce Lee a star at the time.
Together Britt and Kato somehow decide to become crime fighters under the name of The Green Hornet, and his side nameless side kick. The rouse is, they operate under the assumption that they are the bad guys, so they can infiltrate the gangs on the street. OK, I've spent enough time on the basic premise of this thing, let's get on with some serious wood-shedding.
Where to begin. Rogan is terribly cast. The script is so juvenile it seems to be targeting 14 year old boys. The story is... well lousy, and it is so busy trying so hard to be so many different things it's just a mess. It's trying to be funny, charming, exciting, suspenseful and ten other things, and it ends up being none of them. Lots of good people in this movie too. Oscar winner Christoph Waltz as the villain, and Cameron Diaz as Lenore, Britt's secretary. By they way, Diaz looks fifteen years older than Rogan here, and that really falls flat. I don't think she's supposed to be. Bad casting again, not her fault.
Tons of action, in fact way too much...very fatiguing. Silly punchlines and just a big bag of mess here. This idea is really not very good, and Rogan who can do really funny work at times, is hopeless to pull this off in his own movie.
The Green Hornet. Hoping against hope I fear. Hoping for one and done.
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