The green hornet - 2011

:lol: This crazy stupid thing called Green Hornet is rather funny :-) I liked it. I'm not a great Seth Rogen fan honestly, but he's ok in the role of Britt Reid. What I really liked was Jay Chou as Kato. Cool character, cool and cute actor [on youtube I found many music videos too! He's really cool :-) ]
The story is simple: Britt is a rich guy, so spoiled, living a wasted life until his father dies. He hated his father (Tom Wilkinson, always a pleasure) so he fires all the people in the house that worked for him. He knows nothing of anything, he just took for granted all the things he had. The first morning after he fired everyone he wakes up and there's a horrible cappuccino waiting for him, and he gets angry. He learns from his maid that 'Kato' made it before, even though Kato's job was to look after Mr Reid's cars. Britt calls Kato back and everything begins. He is a sort of genius who can invent and build all sorts of things (like the machine that makes the cappuccino, to all sorts of gadgets for the cars that not even Batman or James Bond have stuff like that). One night Britt sees a couple being attacked and he shouts to help them, getting into trouble, and Kato saves him with his special sight that take everything in allowing him to choose what to do, and his super-fast movements :lol:
They run away from the police and once home Britt is so excited that comes up with the superhero-idea: let everyone think we're bad but instead we'll help people! He now owns the Daily Sentinel newspaper, and has them write a lot about this, calling himself the Green Hornet. He doesn't know what to do next, when lenore (Cameron Diaz) comes looking for a secretary's job. She's not just beautiful, she's smart too, and expert on criminology, so they use her to figure out what the GH "will do". They do everything she says, but this way they go against big L.A. boss Chudnofsky (Christopher Waltz). Problems start when Kato invents a sort of stun-gun for Britt, but he takes offense, like: why, you don't need a gun but I do?and all that sort of things, because he seems to think that they're equal, the idiot :rollingeyes:  then Kato and Lenore sett for a date ( do I remember correctly if I say that she asked him out? I think she did :D quite understandable too :D and of course he liked her the second he saw her :D ) , and immediately Britt asks her out but she refuses.
Kato lies to him to secretly go on a date with her, but is deeply troubled when she mentions that in her opinion the GH will be dead very soon because he managed to piss off the big criminals and they'll go after him now. Kato is worried and goes to Britt suggesting caution. They fight because Britt insists on 'I'm the hero, you're just the sidekick' and of course Kato replies 'you're nothing without me' which is true, Britt only supplies the money but he himself does nothing. They fight and kick each other until they fall into the pool (and Kato can't swim! How cute, this makes him human after all :-D) and they separate and don't talk to each other anymore. Lenore is angry at them because Britt fired her but then Britt talks to politician Scanlon (David Harbour) and learns that his father 'helped him' controlling the news for him. He's shocked but doesn't want to be bribed so he asks for Lenore's help and hires her again (under her conditions: double money and no more avances). They try to bust Scanlon hiding a recorder in Britt's jacket; when he meets again with him, Scanlon confesses everything, even having killed his father because he had limits and didn't like him working with Chudnofsky: Scanlon confesses because he has already agreed with Chudnofsky to have him killed that same night in that same restaurant. For some reason Chudnofsky 'hired' the Green Hornet to do it (not totally sure why, he wanted him dead before...).
Kato agrees and goes alone but of course he has no intention of killing Britt, he helps him escape and after a long chase and many bullets fired they reach the Daily Sentinel building. Britt wants to put online what he recorded, but no matter what he said before he now finds out that he is NOT a journalist and failed to record the conversation. When the police arrive, Scanlon pretends he's the victim and the GH the criminal, he would get away with everything, but Kato kills him throwing him off the building with the remaining half of his car on top of him. They escape and take refuge at Lenore's house. They confess everything and she realizes she's been the mind behind the GH all along. She plans a way to help them: Britt has been shot, so when at a public speech Britt names I-didn't-get-his-name (Edward James Olmos) in charge of the Daily Sentinel, Kato appears and pretends to shoot hin in the GH's name so he can go to the hospital :-)
The two guys are friends again although it's not clear if Kato and Lenore will keep seeing each other...
I liked Waltz, he was funny and scary at the same time :-p but mostly I liked Kato and I want him and Lenore happy together :-D