G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

I love this movie so much

Wow! Such a good movie.

hyped garbage

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Enjoyed the pace of the movie. For all GI Joe fans it is slightly disheartening as the characters were not well built. Graphics were good for 2009. Cast was strong but like mentioned earlier the characters were very weak. Portrayal of animosity and romance was fairly platonic. The villains were great escape artists and the hero's were good seekers. Almost the entire movie was a prolonged hide and seek game and GPS was almost always used to locate the enemy. Anyhow, now that watched GI Joe rise of cobra, I may as well watch GI Joe Retaliation.

Two soldiers, Captain Duke Hauser and his partner, Ripcord, are ordered to transport special warheads created by an arms' manufacturer controlled by James McCullen. When they are attacked, they are saved by a special forces unit known as G.I. Joe. The leader of G.I. Joe, General Abernathy is on the trail of an organisation called "Cobra", While Duke and Ripcord train to join the Joes. McCullen is secretly working for Cobra and plotting to recapture his metal-eating "Nanomite" warheads. Duke, Ripcord, and the rest of the unit must stop the launch of these warheads before Cobra uses them to take over the world.........Firstly, anyone expecting anything more than an effects laden action movie with two dimensional characters and a wonderfully over the top plot that makes barely any sense should look elsewhere, this is a big budget film based on a toy franchise.But unlike the dreadful Transformers films, at least the action scenes are coherent, and some of the characters you can warm to ever so slightly.But for the most part of the film, it's the good guys playing it straight, with Marlon Wayans playing the annoying comic relief, and Quaid as the couldn't care less General, and the bad guys turning it up to eleven in the scene chewing stakes.Eccleston really hams it up in a Richard E Grant in Hudson Hawk style, but my word, Levitt is seriously miscast as the Nazi-esque Doctor.But it's a lot of stupid fun, and it's what you'd expect from a Stephen Sommers film. This lies somewhere between The Mummy and Van Helsing for entertainment. The action sequence in Paris is well edited and fun, and the final attack on the villains lair is over the top bilge, but you can't help but enjoy it.So all in all, it's rubbish, but for an over the top action film about toys, you could do a lot worse......

I was ten years old when the GI Joe cartoon came on back in the 80s and I thought it was great back then. When I watched this reboot, my first reaction was that it has no respect for plausibility or physics. There are many examples but one of the worst was the ballistic missiles. Marlon Wayans steals some kind of SR-71 knockoff Cobra plane and proceeds to chase and shoot down two ICBMs.Stupid, right? Ridiculous in several different ways? That's what I thought until I happened to rewatch one of the 1985 cartoons: "Red Rocket's Glare." In the cartoon, a ballistic missile is about to launch from California to Washington, DC. Roadblock, one of the GI Joes jumps onto the missile to disarm it. The Crimson Twins are in hot pursuit and they also jump on. The missile launches with three guys on top of it and they hang on.Flint and Lady Jay are in an F-14 flying around. Someone radios to them that this particular rocket has launched. So they say "On our way" and the afterburners light up, naturally allowing the jet to catch the ballistic missile.The missile has apparently gone up as high as it's going to go and come down again with Roadblock and the two Cobra guys hanging onto it, still fist fighting and exchanging quips. Flint then shoots a sidewinder at the flying missile and somehow it knocks the missile warhead off, instead of exploding itself. Then the missile luckily lands in the Potomac and everyone is OK.My point is, the dumbest and most unbelievable stuff from the movie pales in comparison to how stupid everything was on the TV show. Actually they cleaned it up a lot in terms of plausibility. You think nanomites are dumb? In that particular show I discussed, Destro has invented something called a photon disintegrator that fits in a backpack and makes a whole city disappear. And he is going to use them to destroy every capital city unless every country surrenders their nation to Cobra. That's it! No further explanation! When this is the source material, it's impossible to criticize the movie for being implausible. It might help to watch some of the old cartoons to recalibrate your sense of what is just too stupid.

When the closing music started to die down Henry rose from his chair and smiled, "That was a fun movie.""A no brainer," Kristl said, while she pocketed her hand-held. Henry frowned at her, "I never expected you to use a hand-held during a movie.. I thought you would consider that to be a sin.""I am guilty I confess it. But then this a movie that doesn't require your attention at all. There is nothing much going on besides non stop action.""Well, it is an action movie, so that would be pretty much essential.""I agree.. Although it would be nice if this movie had something more to deliver but action packed scenes.""Well, there is the story of these two ninja warrior types who were opponents.""The story of the two fellow students, one good and one bad, fighting each other throughout the movie? Where did we see that before?""Well..""Or the two lovers who break up, in which one ends up with the bad guys and the other with the good guys, just because the one disappoints the other because he doesn't keep her brother safe in a combat zone? Where have we seen that before? And...""Well. Listen here, Kristl... This is an action movie nothing more or less.. So why the criticism? Just a popcorn movie that is all spectacle and no brains. What else is needed?""I understand that.. but listen. These movies are made with millions and millions of dollars. They are filled with actors, filled with action and filled with specials effects..I mean.. geez they even topple the Eiffel tower at some point.""Yeah.. that was fun.""Now with all these resources at their command. With all the money involved.. how much would it have cost to hire a good writer to write a good script?""Well. It is a movie that doesn't require a good script.""Fair enough.. So..... Let me rephrase it.. Could they not have written a script that does not look like someone stole pieces from other scripts and put them together to make one new, but badly arranged, script? The white and smart mouthed black side kick? The spurned love? The two students who are each opposites? The love affair between that black sidekick and the red head who at first is cold to the advances of the first, but then of course over mellows..The plot, almost stolen from a random James Bond movie? The bad guys who seem runaways from a Marvel comic? And so on and so on.""Eh.""..If we just accept that movie makers do not feel obliged to put time and effort in a proper script and dialog and we let them get away with it, then they will be churning out bad movies. We should not stop criticizing someone because it is just a fun action movie. That is what I belief.""So you feel like you could change the world by mere criticism?""Well.. maybe we could... what else is there left?""How about.. having fun?""You have yours.. and I have mine..""Let's drink some coffee on that."