Be advised that this review contains some spoilerish details.

DC Comics' Green Lantern finally makes it to the silver screen via Casino Royale director Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds as test pilot Hal Jordan , the first human chosen to wear the power ring and join the Green Lantern Corps.

A cocky pilot for the family aviation company of his lifelong friend and ex-flame Carol Ferris Blake Lively ), Hal encounters the dying alien Abin Sur Temuera Morrison ) who bequeaths his power ring unto him with the declaration that the ring has chosen him, a choice the amiable but reckless Hal finds curious at best.

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After the ring bonds with him and he speaks the Oath, Hal is transported to the Lanterns' home world of Oa, where he meets the great warrior Sinestro Mark Strong ), the towering drill instructor Kilowog (voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan ) and the scholarly Tomar-Re (voiced by Geoffrey Rush ). Hal endures what seems like a whole day of training before quitting, saying that the ring made a mistake choosing him. Still traumatized by the boyhood memory of his pilot dad's ( Jon Tenney ) fiery death, Hal must conquer his fears if he's to serve as a Green Lantern Meanwhile, scientist Hector Hammond (played by a heavily made-up Peter Sarsgaard ), the son of an ambitious U.S. senator ( Tim Robbins ), is brought in by the government (in the person of Dr. Amanda Waller , played by Angela Bassett ) to study Abin Sur's remains. Abin Sur had been mortally wounded by the planet-killing Parallax , and his remains bear traces of the cosmic entity's fear-thriving energy, which infects Hector. He soon develops telepathic powers, his skull swelling to a gargantuan size and driving this already odd man into utter madness. Hal must defeat both Hector and Parallax if he's to overcome his fears, save the world and prove himself worthy of being in the Corps.

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Last summer gave us the DC bomb that was Jonah Hex and this summer offers the colossal disappointment that is Green Lantern. The epitome of spectacle over substance, Green Lantern is a cosmic mess and a huge letdown given the source material it had to draw from. Indeed, X-Men: The Last Stand and Wolverine are better than Green Lantern. This was DC and Warner Bros.' best bet yet at establishing a deeper bullpen of big screen superheroes beyond Batman and Superman, but the film is bad enough to possibly kill any hope for ever seeing The Flash or Justice League.