10 Worst Comic Book Movie Climaxes

Of the many, many mistakes made by the 2011 film version of Green Lantern, one of them was choosing Parallax to be the main villain. Parallax certainly deserves to be depicted on film and might have worked as a looming background threat, but placing him front and centre in the first movie was a stupendously bad idea. That's not even counting the character's horrible design that can be best described as "space faeces".

After being built up for the entire film, the final battle between Hal Jordan and Parallax is over in less than five minutes. It's an unrelenting bombardment of CGI as the hero fights off the cosmic fear-dung by summoning catapults, Gatling guns and jet planes, most of which happens in space rather than in the more tangible city environment. Sure, it limits collateral damage, but it's not exactly entertaining to watch two glowing blobs float around against nothing.

Then Hal defeats Parallax by essentially faking it out and punching the creature into the sun. Yeah, this terrifying cosmic being that has haunted the Lantern Corps for centuries? The one they've been holding captive forever and that dozens of Lanterns before weren't able to fight off as a team?

Yeah, it turns out all you needed was one guy and a big fist. It's such a lazy and nonsensical end to the movie, and wastes one of the Green Lantern Corps' biggest foes as if he was just another villain of the week.