I was prepared to write off "The Green Hornet" as just another superhero movie, aimed at comic-book readings kids. Well, I was partly wrong. The film now playing at the Fandango Galaxy multiplex in Carson City is aimed at the lower levels of intelligence, but along the way offers some humor and an incredible chase-crash-shootout scene. So all is not lost when sitting in the Galaxy stadium seats.
The star is Seth Rogen as Britt Reid (no relation to our senator), a playboy son of a newspaper publisher who dies of a "bee" sting (murdered, that is). Britt takes over the family mansion but can't get a decent cup of coffee until his father's driver Kato, (Jay Chou) makes him one on a post-modern gigantic coffee maker. Turns out Kato is a mechanical whiz as well as a martial arts expert.
The two team up as crime fighters after beating up on some muggers they encounter. Thus the Green Hornet is born — no cloaks, just green eye masks. And a spiffy spreedy limo complete with machine guns and fire throwers.
Britt hires Lenore "Casey" Case ( Cameron Diaz ) as a secretary and falls for her. Meanwhile, Benjamin (Christopher Waltz) is the crime boss of LA and is out to get the Green Hornet.
The usual plot developments climax in a car chase scene which dwarfs heretofore marvels of his genre. It ends up in the printing section of the newspaper Britt inherited from his father (wrongly accused of helping Benjamin).
Well, much of the film is a set piece for Britt and Kato to pal around and do good deeds. The hack parts are foreseeable, the romance fiery and Kato the most interesting person in the movie. Acting is OK, but nothing to attract Oscar awarders.
But I often wonder these days how movie heroes manage to always have just a one-day scrim of a beard? Do they have razors that leave 5 o'clock shadow (as it used to be known)? Either you shave it off or let is get up to 10 o'clock. Oh, well, it's probably just a special effect.
— Seth Rogen as Britt Reid/The Green Hornet, a wealthy newspaper publisher who is secretly the masked crimefighter The Green Hornet.
— Jay Chou as Kato, a personal mechanic who becomes the Green Hornet's valet and sidekick.
— Christoph Waltz as Benjamin Chudnofsky/Bloodnofsky, a paranoid Russian gangster who plans to join all of the crime families of Los Angeles together to organize a "super-mafia."
— Cameron Diaz as Lenore "Casey" Case, the love interest of Reid and Kato.
— Tom Wilkinson as James Reid, Britt's wealthy father and successful newspaper publisher
— Edward James Olmos as Mike Axford, the managing editor
— James Franco cameos as the rival drug dealer Danny "Crystal" Clear
Written by: Seth Rogen; Evan Goldberg Based on "The Green Hornet" by George W. Trendle
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