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The Green Hornet

2011

Michel Gondry

Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz ...

4.8

10,759

Action. Comedy By night, debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato. 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		William Thomas Empire	"High hopes of magic from the Gondry-Rogen pairing are dashed. Some neat touches aside, this isn’t so much eternal sunshine, more superbad. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Despite the rumors and the graveyard January opening, 'The Green Hornet' doesn't suck (...) Rogen doesn't make much of an action hero, but he plays his lack of superpowers for maximum fun (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"An almost unendurable demonstration of a movie with nothing to be about (...) The director of this half-cooked mess is Michel Gondry, whose “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is as good as this one is bad (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"May not be the most tedious superhero movie ever - the competition is admittedly tough - but it is certainly in the running"

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