The Green Hornet
Genre: Action
Director: Michel Gondry
Cast : Edward Furlong, Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz
RunTime: 1hr 30mins
Rating: PG
Movie Synopsis
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato (Jay Chou). They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid's shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britts new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.
Movie Review
Being Jay Chou's Hollywood debut, I would say it's pretty good. I'm impressed by his command of English in the movie.
That being said, overall I felt that the movie's storyline was not as good as I had expected it to be. But the entire movie and its effects made up for it.
Would recommend it to any superhero flick fans and Jay Chou fanatics.
Official Movie Trailer
Overall Rating: 4/5