Seth Rogen isn't an action hero, but he plays one on the big screen. Jay Chou isn't a martial arts expert, but he always dreamed of being one.
The Green Hornet wasn't a blockbuster hit, but producers thought it would be. Out today on Blu-ray, in both standard and
3D forms, the film attempts to update the now legendary (though, not very popular) television series starring a then relatively unknown Bruce Lee, and succeeds on some levels while completely missing on others.
Staff reviewer Martin Liebman commented in his
The Green Hornet Blu-ray review , "It falls under the "Superhero" umbrella but plays more like a Buddy Comedy. Not in the least bit thematically dark; maybe a little sloppy around the scripted edges; and featuring a lame-o villain…, The Green Hornet works in spite of its shortcomings thanks to excellent casting and spot-on performances from its chemistry-laden leads." He continues, "Sony's Blu-ray release of The Green Hornet is, as-expected, rock-solid from top to bottom. Strong video, great audio, and a quality assortment of extras makes this disc one to own."
A fan favorite to its core, Robert Rodriguez's
From Dusk Till Dawn features George Clooney as a bad-ass criminal, and it don't get much better than that! One of the titles that Echo Bridge was able to pick up during the great Miramax sell-off, it has yet to be seen if the transfer of rights will result in better releases, or just more of them. Only time will tell.
Ron Howard may be one of the most inconsistent great directors of all time. He can give us classics such as
Apollo 13 and
A Beautiful Mind, and then turn around and put out
How the Grinch Stole Christmas and today's Blu-ray release of
The Dilemma. If you were unaware that the same director is responsible for all four of those films, then maybe there is good reason to believe he has an evil (and less talented) twin running around Hollywood.
For the
The Dilemma Blu-ray review , staff reviewer Jeffrey Kaufman concludes, "This is the rare case of an almost complete misfire by Ron Howard. Even when his films are flawed, as several of them have been, they are at least tonally consistent and seem to know what they want to be, for better or worse. The Dilemma is one of the oddest concatenations of styles in recent memory. The extremely talented cast just kind of flounders with material that is either not very funny or too hysterically dramatic."