Starring Ryan Reynolds as DC Comics’ Hal Jordan, this film is tailored for comic nerds before any other demographic.

Sure, families might go, kids will want to see it and even the old girl will go to check out Ryan Reynolds, but as far as plot, action and characters are concerned, this film is for comic fans.

Hal Jordan is an arrogant and irresponsible test pilot and after a demonstration involving him crashing a fighter jet, he quits his job.

Meanwhile, the audience learns through wordy and fast-paced narration about the Green Lantern Corps, a collection of warriors from all over the universe who keep intergalactic order with the green energy of will.

Up against them after breaking out of his prison, Parallax (an entity that harnesses the yellow energy of fear) is determined to destroy the Green Lantern’s home planet as well as Hal Jordan’s home planet of earth.

It all sounds very complicated, especially if you aren’t a fan of the comics.

But if you have read the odd DC comic, you might have come across Hal Jordan before.

Alternatively, if you paid enough attention to television show The Big Bang Theory, you would know that awkward-but-likeable nerds Sheldon, Leonard, Wolowitz and Raj are all big fans of the comic (and as such you might have picked up bits of comic information sub-consciously).

But for the majority of the film-watching world, people will be asking: “Hal who?”

Reynolds does enough of a job with what he’s given in introducing us to Hal but the script is quite watered down to suit Reynold’s type of acting and humour.

Blake Lively supports well as Carol Ferris, childhood sweetheart and romantic object for the film, while Peter Sarsgaard is well equipped to take on the grotesque and formidable villain Hector Hammond.

Also lending their voices as intergalactic characters are Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), Geoffrey Rush and Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile).