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Other than the outstanding job by both Sarsgaard and Strong (Hammond and Sinestro) I thought the film to be uninspiring (not that movies have to be anything other) and lack-luster (something movies should never be). I walked out feeling apathetic towards the entire thing.
I like Reynolds, but he is pretty much a "DeNiro" actor ... one note, same character in every movie. Sure, he does well at doing what he does well, but not too much "acting".
The constructs were weak. The solution to Parallax was cool, but no-one else thought of trying that?
Not a bad movie, not a great movie, just personally wanted more meat with my mashed potatoes.
Finally saw this movie. Wife and I watched it after watching Thor (a few weeks ago) and before watching Cap (yesterday). I didn't enjoy that much, the special effects were cool enough and the end scene was fun with Sinestro putting on the ring. But after we were done, wife said "we should have watched Thor again!"
I just kept thinking, does no one at DC have a DVD player? Have they not watched IM or Thor? DC has the characters but outside of a Nolan directed Batman, they can't put out a good comic movie.
Saw it on a plane and thought it was ok. I can't say I thought Thor was head and shoulders above it.
I'm not sure they needed Hammond, sinestro, AND parallax. I have a hard time thinking of any comic book movie with 3 different villains that was good. I guess you could argue that sinestro is not a villain here but they certainly spent a ton of time on his story.
