Ryan Reynolds plays cocky pilot Hal Jordon. Hal gets cosmic powers when a dying alien grants him a powerful ring. Accepting the ring also means becoming a Green Lantern – a group of galactic police who use the power of ‘Will’ to battle fear and evil.

I’m a fan of superhero movies and comic books so I can say with confidence that this movie was almost complete rubbish. It’s hard to pinpoint what I hated the most.  It’s a tie between the preppy unlikable characters and the cookie-cutter superhero genesis storyline.

Let me start with the good, don’t worry- this’ll be brief. Ryan Reynolds does the best he can with such a thin script, the 3D visuals were, at times, stunning and thankfully the film is only an hour and forty-five minutes.

Despite Green Lantern’s unique origin story, the team of writers manage to make him a poster-boy for superhero clichés.  Hal is a hot-shot pilot with a semi-tragic past who gets superpowers, saves the day and gets the girl.  Oh, wait, it’s unique because it’s in 3D, right?

What really irritated me about this film were the characters. Hal Jordon is a good-looking, relatively successful, popular guy who gets superpowers. His ex-girlfriend (Blake Lively) is a beautiful, successful, sexy and talented woman. The bad guy, Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard) is a smart, unattractive, loner who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  So the preps are the heroes and the geeks are the bad guys? You lost me.

The film’s attempt at character development is limited to some daddy issues thrown here and there.

Other characters do things for no apparent reason and the shift from the space scenes to the earth scenes made me wonder if the projectionist accidentally spliced two different movies together.

While I said the 3D effects were kind of cool- overall the special effects were cartoony and seemed to still be in pre-production.

The film ends with the promise of a sequel. If the second one gets made, lets hope the filmmakers make a few changes.