The Green Hornet

After the suspicious death of his father, flighty L.A. party guy Britt Reid (Rogan) takes over the family media empire. With the help of martial arts expert and inventor Kato (Chou), Britt reinvents himself as vigilante crime-fighter The Green Hornet, posing as an actual criminal. The pair set their sights on a corrupt District Attorney and generic (though amusingly-played) city crime lord Chudnofsky (Waltz). Co-writer Rogan injects too much meaningless comic babble and slacker sensibility to the story, and along with over-the-top slo-mo action sequences and lame one-liners, takes too much of the edge off of a good concept. And baffling is why Diaz would accept the role of a meaningless female assistant.