I didn’t really say anything about Hector Hammond.  Frankly, I feel he was totally wasted.  The film’s attempt to make him some sort of avatar…nothing less than the Silver Surfer to Parallax’s big-ugly-planet-sized-cloud-that-we’ll-call-Galactus…really doesn’t work.  Hector could have been a villain for the entire movie; as it is, we have this whole Daddy didn’t love me subplot that doesn’t work.

This is a weakness.  Hector Hammond is a good villain in the comic books, but his immobility is a hindrance in the more action-packed medium of movies, so we’re never treated to is fully immobile form.

I completely forgot to mention something that really bugged me about the film: Hal’s baffling entrance as Green Lantern.  He suddenly bursts through the wall while Hector is attacking security guards.  WHY? Near as I can figure, his ring simply detected the trouble and told him to go there.  Now, that’s a new ability for the power ring.  Actually, two new abilities:  the power ring can detect trouble, and it can cover vast holes in the plot!

So, Hal’s will-sense was tingling, and he bursts through the wall… wait, why would he bust open a wall?  Without knowing what he’s smashing into, he could hurt someone or make the trouble worse.  It’s a bizarre scene.