The Boy Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Vadim Rizov
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The Green Hornet was supposed to be Michel Gondry's directorial feature debut in 1997, starring Greg Kinnear as Marvel's comic-book hero. As it was, it took 2001's Human Nature for Gondry to break into cinema, and Kato's first fight in the 2011 model is a retread of Gondry's video for The Chemical Brothers' 'Let Forever Be.' It's a nifty bit of trivia or validation that the project ended up with the same filmmaker 14 years later, but the project resulted from multiple corporate disputes, with reshoots and a shoddy 3D conversion to boot. The Green Hornet proves to be the sloppiest, most inept action franchise-launcher helmed by a frail visionary weirdo since Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. At least on that production, Jack Nicholson ran interference for Burton, sparing him from the worst of Warner Bros.' meddling. This is a film made by a director who is not allowed to be himself.
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(Dean on
Jan 14, 2011 2:36 PM)




If Green Hornet is as STOOOOOOOPID as it looks it will be the flop of the year, I thought it was bad enough when I heard that Seth (i can't act ) Rogen was picked for the part. Then it was down hill from there.
I can honestly say that I won't even buy the DVD let alone go to the theater.