Koonel Reviews GREEN LANTERN  Koonel Reviews GREEN LANTERN  Did
it deserve all the hate?  Follow Koonel: By Koonel - 4/3/2012
We've all seen Green Lantern, so I'm not going to go through the
motions to recap the movie here.  I have recently watched this
again a couple of times because they're showing it on HBO all
the time now. I really think that this movie's faults are that
the director gave up about half way through the movie.  Martin
Campbell is a very hit or miss director. The first Zorro was
great, but the second was garbage. Goldeneye was awesome as
well. And while I wasn't a fan of the new take on Bond with
Daniel Craig, a lot of people seemed to like it.  What went
right: The fist half of this movie is epic. The battle with Abin
Sur and Parralax, the dog fight sequence with the jets, the
scenes on Oa, all of these are brilliant.  We are all in
agreement that Kilawog and Sinestro were bad ass. The costume
looked great considering the changes, even though the mask was a
bit weird. Visual effects and th