Based off the comic strip, The Green Hornet stars Seth Rogen as Britt Reid, son of a famous newspaper tycoon played by Tom Wilkinson who dies after a bee sting and is left in charge of his empire, but one night he gets the idea to become a superhero with his aide Kato played by Jay Chou and run the story in his paper, but a local mob boss played by Christoph Waltz may have other ideas.
Okay, onto the good parts of the movie and they are some of the individual gags and chase scenes, for the most part these work on their own and the chase scenes are well directed but unfortunately they only work as individual scenes.
However the glue that holds this movie together; the script simply doesn't work at all, going from boorish to action to emotion as it goes on without any rhyme or reason to tie it all together and make the audience give two shits about anything happening on screen, as for the performances Rogen comes across as really annoying for most of the movie and just does nothing more than the stereotypical "overgrown man child who must learn to grow up well after he should've" routine that is REALLY annoying me to no end and Waltz really just does nothing more than the cartoon villain with his "I finally have Gadget exactly where I want him, hehehehahahaha" dialogue that is again very very annoying while Chou is given the impossible task of carrying the whole movie on his shoulders which he does rather well I must say, one can't help but think that if it wasn't for him the whole film would've been a total disaster.
All in all, as I said it has some good points but the script just doesn't work, 1 out of 5.
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