Le Frelon Vert

Elvis Mitchell makes his Movieline debut with a review of Eric Rohmer's The Green Ray, Rohmer's 1986 action thriller based on the French comic-book hero Le Rayon Vert, who paralyzed criminal brutes and masked villains with a perfume atomizer that sprayed a fine mist of pine scent that rendered them faint and vaguely disconsolate.

No, I appear to be mistaken. It's The Green Hornet that Elvis is reviewing. It sounds like a fine film to take the kids and grandma to, and then just leave them there, while you go do something else.



When Cameron Diaz rushes in breathlessly half an hour into the movie, it?s as if someone just remembered the movie needed a woman. And when Christoph Waltz, as the petty, jealous bad guy Chudnofsky, isn?t engaged as an actor, his suavity turns into contempt ? here, it?s what Mary McCarthy once called an oily virtuosity. [Seth] Rogen hasn?t stepped up his game that much. Despite his obvious pride in his new Lean Cuisine physique, his Britt Reid is still hobbled with a slacker?s posture. Even Rogen?s gift for turning any environment he inhabits in into a clubhouse doesn?t help.



This bodes ill for the proposed remake of Merrill's Marauders, starring Rogen in Jeff Chandler's old rugged role and to be shot on location in the leech-infested waters of Charlie Sheen's Jacuzzi. Oh well, some things are just not meant to be.

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/01/le-frelon-vert.html

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