Why so much hype?

not as good as all the hype

A different way of telling a story

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. G.I. Joe: Retaliation has insane action, one liners and some awesome fight scenes man to man between The Rock and The Punisher, Snake Eyes is awesome in the scene within the Mountains and Bruce Willis was pretty great. Overall people with the right expectations will enjoy G.I. Joe 2 but fans of the cartoon will be left disappointed i believe. (A+)

I have to say that the action scenes are very well done when they are pseudo real (5% of all the action) , and the vfx and color correction are very well done. That's all what I enjoyed of this movie. The story it's simply childish, How they solve important moments are ridiculous, some example: cobra leader stays years in a maximum security prison since a new prisoner arrive an let escape everyone after 10 minutes he just step in, they solve that the president of united stated is an impostor analyzing his body movement with a computer in 2 minutes, they cut with swords bullets shots by gun and machine-gun...if you can enjoy all that this is your film. Otherwise just muscle, nice girl who can be hardly a special forces than a model, lot of action and very dumb hostile who they are there just because they have to be killed. So for an audience of guys between 10 and 14 will be great.

I don't know if it was on purpose, but here they took an 80's property, gave it the same flavor as "Commando" with all its extreme scenarios, and gave it 10's level practical effects. This is one movie I obligated myself to watch it. Why? It had my favorite Joe in Roadblock, who was given the best possible casting (seeing how Michael Clarke Duncan's passing made him unavailable). It's generally accepted that Dwayne Johnson makes good with his time on camera in every role, and I loved every minute of it here. No argument that the plot is paper-thin...OK--RICE paper, but you take on that 80's mentality, it becomes a worthwhile guilty pleasure. Cobra Commander's few scenes showed him being more convincing than what we saw in the 80's cartoons. It was something interesting to see Jonathan Pryce as a good guy, though he's cast to primarily use his bad guy acting skills. Too bad we didn't get much of Arnold Vosloo. I enjoyed Flint (though in the cartoon, he was much higher in command) and Lady Jay. So overall, a good bit of "check your brains at the box office fun".

GI Joe: Retaliation is more commendable than most think.Its pace is perfect, just like its prequel; you can't go wrong with both The Rock and awesome Ninjas being in back-to-back scenes, all the action is fun and not overcut, the CGI is great, when you look closely, and the dialogue between the Cobra characters isn't all that villain-clichéd and boring. Everyone (except for perhaps Catrona) has fine acting, that shouldn't bore, and an addition of Bruce Willis into the cast was clever, even though he doesn't play a Frank Moses or Joe McClane. The high point of the cinematic aspect of the movie, the dojo-and-cliffside fights between the ninjas, is particularly well done and, when seeing it for the first time, thrilling.The only major flaw of the movie is its escape from the other prime GI Joe characters: Ripcord and Duke's wife are not hinted at all, nor is General Hawke (Dennis Quaid), which would make complete sense if he was given that in this film the Joe's are being "disavowed" so to speak, or undone. The fact that Tatum's character dies within the first 15 minutes of the film is not a flaw of the movie; it provides a realistic and not cheap push for the three survivor protagonists - That he appears as the main figure on of the movie's promo posters, however, is misleading.