Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone

For a silly vanity project, this comedic fantasy may be worth a look as family entertainment. A Texas Nissan dealer named Charlie Clark stars in and co-wrote the tale of a wannabe luchador (masked Mexican wrestler) who finds himself in the middle of a supernatural struggle among ancient powers. He's far less prepared to become THE ONE than Keanu was in The Matrix. His training and the big battle ensue, per the usual course of events for these things. They even play Eye of the Tiger behind the training sequences. The rights to that song may have been the most expensive part of the production.

There are a few laughs along the way, variably offering a fantasy adventure and spoofing the genre. Telling the two apart from moment to moment may be up for debate. Perhaps the basis for one of those drinking games of downing a shot whenever some trope appears. The cast is largely unknown, except for a supporting role from the legendary Danny Trejo as one of Charlie's mentor immortals. He gets in one line during the second half that's almost worth whatever time his fans spend watching this on its own. Someone named Marko Zaror plays the biggest baddest villain with a typical sort of plan to rule the world and eliminate all humans. He looks like a young Arnold Vosloo, which should serve him well for landing a string of heavies' roles in low-profile flicks. Clark's acting career seems less likely to thrive than his dealership, though he comes across as a likeable lug. They show clips of his actual family, adding to the warm-fuzzy factor of the project.

Think of this as plying the Spy Kids franchise waters, on a lower budget, and with a quality somewhere between the delightful first and lamentable third installments of that series.

It has some funny juvenile humor. It feels like a mashup between a Marvel comic book, Kung Fu martial arts, Mexican comedies films drenched in cheese. My favorite parts were with Danny and the homage to the guy's mother during the end credit. The end credits touched me.

Needless to say that I hadn't heard about this 2021 movie titled "Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone" prior to sitting down and watching it here in 2023. I stumbled upon the movie by random chance, and seeing that the movie had Danny Trejo on the cast list, then of course I opted to sit down and watch it.

Writers Charlie Clark, Michael D. Olmos, Brian Douglas and Rafael Antonio Ruiz put together a fair enough script and storyline for the movie. I will say that the movie was watchable, though it wasn't particularly much a movie that appealed much to my liking and preference in entertainment.

The acting performances in "Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone" were okay, and they had some good actors and actresses on the cast list.

Visually then "Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone" was actually a nice surprise. The special effects and visuals in the movie were good, and definitely added a layer to the movie and thus helping to make it more watchable.

I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as "Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone", I just happened to not be a part of that particular target audience. While the movie is listed as an action comedy, I have to say that director Michael D. Olmos failed on the comedy aspect, because it was hardly present throughout the 82 minutes that the movie ran for.

My rating of director Michael D. Olmos's 2021 movie "Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone" lands on a five out of ten stars.

It's never good when the producer of an action movie is also the star- in this case a guy who's 50-something thinking he can play the brother of 20-somethings- but I watched this cuz Danny Trejo. Imagine Big Trouble in Little China but without good actors or a good script. The plot revolves around setting up supernatural fights, which themselves are well done, but there's nothing new or imaginative in this story or its characters. (Is anyone else tired of magic + kungfu movies?)

Not very good. The whole thing feels like a kids film from the 80s. The comedy is very scarce and the bits that exist are not funny enough. It's basically a cheesy action film with a video game plot.