The Green Lantern - Movie Review

The ring of power is on planet earth ... this ring possesses the power of the will, the only means to stop fear from spreading throughout the entirety of space and time. However this is not 'Lord of the Rings' and there is a lot more rings of power than the solitary 'one ring' that Middle Earth fought over. A lot more... 3599 to be exact. Between them their owners are guardians over the entire universe, each monitoring a sector of space and guarding it from many foes; chief of them being the power of fear. You may have already guessed that 'The Green Lantern' is not a standard piece of superhero fare, stretching itself in terms of scope and size well beyond our own world and creating a universe of potential storylines. Consider this the 'DC Comics' version of Thor in terms of its scale and you should have a rough idea of what 'The Green Lantern' should be aiming to achieve. Sadly though, what it aims to achieve it falls way short of, the vast array of problems that face 'The Green Lantern' totally overpowering the highlights that flicker beneath the surface.

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X-Men: First Class - Movie Review

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You know how it is. You wait a hundred realms to get the superhero movie you always dreamed of, and then it finally arrives when you least expect it. That movie brings out a superhero that you love, the hero you will rout with for the rest of your days. Through the spiders, bats and iron, all undeniably great characters with great films already behind them (when the creative team gets there heads together), I still never really felt that I was a converted fan of the hero himself. For every Spiderman there was a Doc. Oc... For every Batman there was a Joker... For every Iron Man there was a Obadiah Stane... okay, so the last one isn't true but still I'm completely sold on Tony Stark.

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