![]() ![]() The action sequences here are… okay, I suppose, which is kind of disappointing seeing as how this is a Green Lantern movie. There are some moments where the film genuinely soars and becomes exciting (such as the third act), but these moments are few and far between. Why couldn’t we have just had a straight-up Jon Stewart origin story that didn’t get bogged down by so many pointless things surrounding it? It’s there that the movie starts to introduce some pointless sub-plots and starts to make the initially simplistic story into something far more complex than it needed to be. To tell you the truth, the first twenty minutes or so of the film are stellar, but it immediately takes a nosedive as Hawkgirl shows up. The setup is actually quite great in this film. I was hoping that director Jeff Wamester would seriously surprise me with a gripping, emotional, and exhilarating origin story of Jon Stewart as the Green Lantern, but instead, he presents us with a boring, shallow, one-dimension, messy film that, while gorgeously animated and featuring some truly excellent voiceover work, is proof that we may never get a truly good movie based on the iconic character. It’s weird because I do enjoy a large number of these films but, because even the best of the series can be mediocre, I wasn’t even remotely excited to click play on this movie. This line of DC Universe Animated Originals has been quite hit or miss, with a few of them being seriously exceptional ( Batman: Under the Red Hood) whereas some ended up being total duds ( Reign of the Supermen). To be completely honest with you, I didn’t even know that Green Lantern: Beware My Power even existed until today when I watched the film, and that’s saying something because I am almost always totally up to date with all of the upcoming superhero movie releases, whether they’re live-action or animated. Now, with the aid of the light-hearted Green Arrow, Adam Strange and Hawkgirl, this reluctant soldier must journey into the heart of a galactic Rann/Thanagar war and somehow succeed where all other Green Lanterns have failed. Unfortunately, the ring doesn’t come with instructions – but it does come with baggage, like a horde of interplanetary killers bent on eliminating every Green Lantern in the universe. Recently discharged Marine sniper John Stewart is at a crossroads in his life, one which is only complicated by receiving an extraterrestrial ring which grants him the powers of the Green Lantern of Earth. Features the voices of: Aldis Hodge, Jimmi Simpson, Ike Amadi, Brian Bloom, Jamie Gray Hyder | Written by John Semper, Ernie Altbacker | Directed by Jeff Wamester ![]()
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