Movie review: The Green Hornet (2011)

Ahha…this is the first movie released in 2011 that I have watched, The Green Hornet, starred by Seth Roggen and the unusual Taiwan superstar, Jay Chou. This is the first time we are seeing Jay Chou in an English movie, so I’m kinda anticipating for that too. This is a good start for many films yet to be released throughout the year. This is a good film. It will never get you boring throughout the whole movie with a lot of intense action-packed scenes. For me, the pace and the development of the story progress very well in this less than a two hours movie.

The casts are great, except that Jay Chou is a bit wooden in the movie, but I can accept it, as his character is to be something like this, a cool guy whom invented a lot of cool stuff to aid the Green Hornet in his mission to fight crime. However, for the story, I still feels that Kato (the character played by Jay Chou) had more contribution to the story than Britt, the Green Hornet. He is the one get rid of all the bad guys with his skill in martial arts as well as on his invented cars and armors, while the Green Hornet seems to be the sidekick of him only. Furthermore, Kato is the one suggesting the name of ‘The Green Hornet’. Everything is from him. Well, then the movie title should be changed to ‘The Cool Kato’.So I think the movie seems to be get out of track, as all the stuff is by Kato, while Britt is accompanied with his newspaper company only with nothing to contribute on missions of The Green Hornet.

By the way, it’s a good movie, a lot of action-packed scenes like I have mentioned early, eventhough there are some scenes which show a bit over of cruelty, like guys crushed by falling car, eyes crushed by chair’s legs, etc. Action-based scenes do not really need those actually. The visual effects are great. There are some comedic stuff between the two main casts, alongside with Cameron Diaz, whom acted as the permanent secretary of Britt. I believed Jay Chou tried his best, a bit hard this time due to him lacking in English language. It is definitely fun, entertaining, worth-watching film. Out of 10 points, I rate this one 7.7.

You see! Even the movie poster itself is focusing on Kato (Jay Chou) whom is only the nameless partner of The Green Hornet, portrayed by Birtt (Seth Rogen).

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