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The Green Lantern

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With my flight delayed 6 hours in Hong Kong and my colleague's phone dead and thus not contactable, I decided to spend a couple of hours in the cinema - the choices were several, but I chose well enough with this lite faire, the latest in the comic book superhero films that finally delivers a reasonable reason to wear those 3D glasses. The Plot: Test pilot Hal Jordan ( Ryan Reynolds ) is a young man scarred by the death of his father in an x-plane crash before his eyes. He's young and extremely talented, but emotionally crippled by his fears. Bestowed in a flash of green light by a dying alien with a mysterious green ring and lantern, he is set to battle evil (played, in part by Peter Sarsgaard ) using the force - literally - of his will, as translated by the ring. In Summary: Worth seeing to pass just under two hours, and not at all a waste of time - particularly at HK movie prices equivalent to A$10. The muted love story with Blake Lively's character is very poorl