Starring: Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller, Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbai, Ray Park, Christopher Eccleston, Byung-hun Lee, Rachel Nichols, Dennis Quaid, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Certificate: 12
Genre: Action, Sci Fi
Awards: None
G.I. Joe's are a top secret military organisation who stop the nabbing of nukes from the enemies of justice and freedom. They all have silly names and this time nukes are being stolen by an angry scottish weapons manufacturer (Eccleston) so that he can sell them to somebody else. We follow Duke (Tatum), a soldier who wants to join the Joe's after he sees that his ordinary ex-girlfriend (Miller) has turned into a super villain.G.I. Joe is stupid. Nobody seems to even question how a perfectly ordinary person suddenly starts stealing nukes and beating up the best of America's military might. Duke actually seems to be more concerned with the fact that she has died her hair. The other Joes are mostly generic and boring. Snake eyes (Park) is the only interesting character who is tied with the "baddie's" mate Storm Shadow (Lee).
G.I. Joe feels like a cartoon one would watch on saturday mornings. We have cackling villains and stupid plots that feel like they were written by a five year old. It may be based on cartoons and action figures but other franchises have had better adaptations to film. However, if you're a fan of explosions you might like this.
**Pretty Bad
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