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Ror Reviews: The Green Hornet |
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Sunday, 16 January 2011 05:40 |
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This is gonna be a divider! And for many reasons, not just the "fans of the Green Hornet will hate/non fans will like" theory(which of course is valid), but even if this was the first time any of us had heard of the character, Michel Gondry's movie is still the type to divide audiences. Is it an action movie with comedic elements? A comedy with some action? A parody even? Make absolutely no mistake, it's a comedy. Green Hornet is played for laughs throughout. It's not complete farce, and SOME drama creeps in, but don't expect the director or the cast to take the film or themselves seriously at all. Good job it's damn funny then eh?
The opening scene is a corker, with the villain of the story Chudnofsky(Christoph Waltz) dropping in on a rival in the drug trade(a great cameo from James Franco). In this scene Chudnofsky is established as |
