Disappointing 'Green Hornet' is a by-the-numbers action movie - Detroit Free Press

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We will all realize that for the vast majority of films, shooting in or converting to 3D offers absolutely nothing from a narrative standpoint, and very little visually. It just adds money at the box office through higher ticket prices.

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Hearing his name attached to a superhero movie -- starring Seth Rogen, of all people -- may have sounded incongruent, but at least it was intriguing. Unfortunately, all Gondry has come up with here is a surprisingly generic, bombastic action movie. Except for a few sequences that carry a bit of his flair, this movie could have been made by anyone.

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Because the script comes from Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who cowrote "Superbad," the first half of "The Green Hornet" feels as if it's meant to play like a Judd Apatow-style bromance -- one with elaborate gadgetry. But as the film wears on, it devolves into a numbing onslaught of automatic weapon fire, shattered glass and explosions. Just as it should be reaching an engrossing climax, it grows more repellent.

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