Green Lantern: A front-runner for the worst movie of the year.: "Like Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Martin Campbell's The Green Lantern (Warner Bros.) begins at the very beginning: the origins of the universe. And like The Tree of Life, The Green Lantern relies on extensive voice-over as it links those cataclysmic intergalactic events to the life of one mortal, vulnerable man. True, The Tree of Life doesn't include a giant many-tentacled villain named Parallax who subsists on the fear of his victims, or a magical glowing green ring that lends its wearer superhuman strength and the ability to fly, or a purple-blooded alien crash-landing in a swamp. But Malick is rumored to be preparing a six-hour director's cut, so you never know.
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