The Green Hornet (2011)

The Green Hornet (2011)
Director: Michel Gondry
Writers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz
Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team.

Forgettable retelling of The Green Hornet, the story revolves around Britt Reid whose left his fathers newspaper and media empire when his father dies after a bee sting. Not wanting to give up his playboy styled excessive ways, Britt doesn't take direct control over his late fathers business, instead he ends up forming a crime fighting team with his fathers butler Kato. After giving himself the moniker The Green Hornet and tackling a few minor crimes, he learns that his late father was mixed up with a corrupt politician who protects the cites biggest crime boss.

Such a let down this wasting the fantastic talents of its director Michel Gondry. The key problem is how much they've dumbed down the character of Reid/Green Hornet and the script in general (in my eyes Seth Rogen was badly cast as the central hero and Cameron Diaz is cringe worthy as an air head secretary) the film as good sets and glossy production values but it feels wasted on such a lame deja-vu feeling plot. Jay Chou does an admirable job as Kato, he does a few good little action set pieces along the way but overall a film I wish I had avoided.

(5 out of 10)