THE GREEN LANTERN (12A)Rating: ll
ON ITS iridescent, green surface, Martin Campbell’s special effects-heavy battle of the planets is mindless guff.
Voiceover narration, courtesy of Geoffrey Rush, establishes the existence of a band of intergalactic protectors known as the Green Lanterns, who maintain peace and justice in the universe using superpowers granted to them by funky rings.
When an old adversary called Parallax re- emerges in the Lost Sector, venerated Green Lantern warrior Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison) is fatally wounded in the ensuring melee and his ring chooses cocksure United States Air Force test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) as a worthy successor.
Audiences will see through the technical wizardry and surmise that, like so many superheroes before him, Green Lantern smoulders but doesn’t catch light.
