![]() ![]() Is he "better" now? Why, because he found a new purpose with the Corps? Will he continue to struggle with that affliction the way real life vets do? Ending is a pretty straightforward "John has found his new mission and is happy" which just makes me wish they hadn't even included the PTSD. Topics like that deserve to be handled with care and respect, and while there's nothing offensive, I don't have any clue how John's relationship with PTSD has changed as a result of the story. His PTSD is barely relevant to the larger story (apart from a sequence where he almost murders Shayera and Hal attempting to corrupt John by saying he can tell John is sick of war and conflict too). Even John isn't developed to the level I would like.Īside from a minor arc about coming to appreciate what it means to be a GL, nothing is really done characterwise with John. Result is that everyone feels undercooked because the focus is spread too thin. Sinestro gets some backstory, as does Hal/Parallux who is the real "Big Bad" of the movie, but no one else in his group even speaks. Rann and Thanagar get a little fleshing out but then it's revealed that actually Sinestro is behind the conflict. We're introduced to the Green Lantern Corps and then almost immediately after it's revealed to have been destroyed. There's just not enough time to give all of these plot lines the focus they need. Just one of those could be a great movie but it's trying to do ALL of them, and the end result is underwhelming. BMP is trying to be a John Stewart origin story, and an adaption of the Rann-Thanagar War, Sinestro Corps War, and Emerald Twilight storylines. Story wise BMP is typical for a DC animated movie: First two acts are pretty good but the quality drops hard in the final act because they bit off more than they could chew. ![]()
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