The Green Hornet
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: January 14, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
17
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJan 14, 2011
The high point might be the opening scene, before the stars arrive on screen. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyJan 13, 2011
Hiring this sensitive fantasist (Gondry) to make the superhero saga The Green Hornet is like hiring satirist John Waters to make "Rambo." Hard to think of a more mystifying mismatch of filmmaker and material. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreJan 12, 2011
A violent, clumsy, jokey, badly-plotted and miscast mess. Read full review
30
SlateDana StevensJan 14, 2011
Sadly, these small bursts of beauty seemed so at odds with the movie's general crushing mediocrity that they were like quickly squelched protests against it. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJan 14, 2011
Gondry's update of vigilante crime fighter The Green Hornet's escapades is above all an exercise in frustration. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 13, 2011
There's nothing here but a concept and a marketing and merchandising strategy, at the center of which somebody - oh, no - had to come up with an actual movie. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJan 12, 2011
An almost unendurable demonstration of a movie with nothing to be about. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJan 12, 2011
Billed as an action comedy, The Green Hornet isn't funny, and the action is often too frenetic to make any impression. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJan 13, 2011
The film's only unqualified success is the end title sequence-because it's genuinely stylish, because it looks like it was shot in genuine 3-D and, most of all, because it's the end. Read full review
0
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJan 14, 2011
Such a feeble excuse for an action comedy that it's already taken pride of place in my upcoming worst-movies-of-2011 list. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickJan 14, 2011
Overblown, interminable and unfunny. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJan 13, 2011
May not be the most tedious superhero movie ever - the competition is admittedly tough - but it is certainly in the running. Read full review
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