Fantastic!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Kato is Britt Reid's driver. They fight against vicious power together. There are two mean stories in this movie. First story is that a bad guy try to destroy the whole city, and kidnap Casey. Kato and Britt go their lair through the signal launcher in Casey's cloth. Second story is that Kato and Britt rescue Mary from King. At the same time, they help jimmy to reseize his father's business. Like typical American Hero movie, there must be an important people for this hero be kidnapped by bad guy, and hero go into bad guy's liar and try his best to rescue the hostage. Always the episode here is climax of movie. In hero movie, almost every hero have an assistant. And this assistant has different character from the hero. Like Kato use KongFu to fight with enemies. On the other hand, Britt fight with enemies by the crutch that can destroy enemies' any weapon. There are many fighting episodes. You can get the different characters between Kato and Britt in these episodes. American like hero movie, for they growing with frontier culture. They advocate individualism, like the hero never make deal with anybody, never surrender, never complain. They always have cool face and deep sound. American belief that god bless the people who help himself. So the movie editor set the hero's characters such as individual, no love, no more words. Like Batman, Spiderman, Superman, all these "man" have similar character. That is the American taste. You can find little boy wear a superman costume, or t-shirt printed a big spider logo. Frontier Culture been printed in little children's mind stably. And it will influent American from gesture to big decision in whole life. After 200 years, it didn't ever change or devastate a little. Even movie technology developed so much, from black and white no sound to 3D. From Bruce Lee's Green Hornet in 1966 to Jay Chou's Green Hornet in 2011, there are so many differences that we can not deny. However, the hero spirit never changed.

Considering the cultural milieu in which this show was produced and the budgetary and technological limitations involved, this is probably the 2nd greatest not-for-laughs super-hero TV program ever produced, second only to George Reeves' Superman program.(It is superior to Reeves in terms of production values.) Although mostly formulaic, the stories were tightly plotted and disciplined, delivering good super-hero type action with a little drama, and with every episode having at least some kind of hook or gimmick to add to the fun.There are occasional quips or smart remarks, but the show was played completely straight and the Hornet and Kato were never made to look silly or ridiculous. In fact, Our Heroes actually looked cooler than most traditional superheroes in their masks and business clothes, since tights do not translate well onto the screen.Every episode had at least 1 fight scene, many having 2 or more fights, and many of the fight scenes were truly excellent when compared with other shows of this period. Often the fights involve multiple foes and transpire in warehouses, with the Hornet's hat miraculously staying on throughout the fight...these things played out like the wonderful fight scenes in old Republic movie serials, where the stunt-men kept their hats on by means of spirit gum.Speaking of the fights, every episode features Bruce Lee doing some great martial arts moves, and usually you can hear him yelling as he delivers the blow, to great effect, I might add.Generally, the cast was competent to excellent, with Van Williams being an acceptable Britt Ried but a most excellent and badass Green Hornet...he definitely seems to get into his role of intimidating criminals, which is great fun to watch.Bruce Lee's acting skills were probably not fully developed at this time, nonetheless, his Kato is good enough and he had a good screen presence.Those who like their heroes to display a lot of angst and conflicted emotions, who like extended shots of characters staring off into nothingness with vague expressions upon their faces, perhaps with cloying music rising in the background, such as can be seen on more modern television shows, will not like the GH. Emotions are underplayed on this show. It is a matter of some debate as to why a show this well-produced was a ratings failure and only lasted 1 season. I blame it on 3 things: 1. This show was broadcast opposite 'The Wild, Wild, West' which had premiered 2 years earlier and was a fantastically HUGE hit with young males, the exact demographic GH's producers sought. Opposite WWW, GH never had a chance for good ratings.2. For some reason, this show has a cheap-looking opening credits sequence, with a kind of slide show presentation and the corny voice of Batman announcer (and GH executive producer Bill Dozier) narrating the whole thing. I think viewers might have seen the credits and thought they were in for another Batman...and Batman was already losing viewers when GH premiered in 1967.3. At 1/2 hour per show, there was not enough time to develop villains into really baroque pulp-fiction type characters, such as on Wild, Wild West, nor was there time to develop the Hornet's relationship with his buddy Kato or his sexy secretary Miss Case, nor was there time to have more complex plots. Improvement along any of these lines would have made the show more successful.But taken as it is, as a half hour of straightforward, honest, non-camp superhero fun, satisfying our need for tough yet fair heroes, the Green Hornet stands alone as a gleaming artifact, sufficient in itself, tantalizing for what it could have been.

Like almost anyone else, I was drawn to watching this series because of Bruce Lee. I will give you a spoiler, I have more respect for Bruce Lee than I did before, for different reasons.I am more than willing to overlook some of the low production issues or campiness that any show had in that era. Star Trek and Doctor Who's producers did not spend much on the sets and by todays standards the special effects left quite a bit to be desired, yet these shows were great because of the cast and the fantastic plot lines of the shows. Yeah, Batman was campy as Hell, yet, Adam West and the rest of the cast seemed to be having a great time and the show had such an enthusiasm that it was difficult not to get swept away with it.I have seen other reviews that have condemned ABC for pulling it. In looking at it I can see why ABC canceled it. The real issue is that Van Williams, the lead, gives performances that are as stiff as a board. He does not put any emotion into his acting. The result is that the stories tend to drag and be kind of flat. There is not energy that there is with other shows.There are two cool things with this show.You can really see the evolution on scene fighting. Bruce Lee goes first with his rapid, Kung fu which here more than maybe even his movies has a grace that is almost close to ballet. Elegent and powerful at the same time. Then Williams will fight and his style is closer of the old cowboy movies barroom brawler. The Hornet fights with a slower style based less on speed than force. It is like Ying and Yang and really cool.The last really cool thing thing is of course Bruce Lee. Unlike, Williams he puts "emotional content" into every scene he is in. One little known fact about Bruce Lee is that he was a former child actor in movies in Hong Kong. But here you really to see that not only was an excellent martial artist he was also very underrated as an actor. He really had acting chops.I came to this conclusion only because the rest of the show was pretty mediocre. Lee could rise above the mediocrity and really shine. That is why I have more respect for him than I used to.Let's face it, if anyone other than Lee had been Kato, this show would have trashed and no one would have heard of it.In summary, Lee was awesome the show left much to be desired.

My husband and I love watching the Green Hornet reruns in the AM. Doesn't matter how many times we have already seen them, we just enjoy watching them over and over again.I was sorely disappointed when I unwittingly purchased the DVD's that were bootleg copies because the quality stunk. I would rather wait til they come out on DVD or VHS with good definition rather than the fading in and out which is so prevalent with bootleggers.I think the best part about the Hornet is figuring out which of the three masks Van Williams is wearing and in which episode. Or even the night and day thing of getting into the car. Or the time that the Hornet gets shot in the arm and amazingly he jumps in the car as the Hornet with the same vip and vigor he always displays, no pain in the arm or anything.They are a great source of enjoyment for all and will withstand the test of time, just like the Wizard of Oz.