disgusting, overrated, pointless

A Brilliant Conflict

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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Yes, lots of odd devices not fully explained. Here is one more film of this kind which is only worth for the visual effects and digital animation as a matter of fact in large profusion sometimes tiresome. The story is a mere pretext to the display of these effects and animation. This is a more than ordinary story in this kind of movies. The honourable guys and the evil ones (the former very good and the latter very bad) are typical. The story develops itself through a series of violent episodes some absurd and even unintelligible. A group of malefactors called the Cobra who are the owners of a high technology intends to lay hold on the world using nanomite warheads. The Joes are a special team of the good ones who fight the Cobra to prevent that they reach their aim. A detail of this is that the man who runs a company that sells those warheads to NATO gives them also to Cobra. Nothing more dull-witted.

I've never read the comics so watched this totally open minded. The acting is pretty bad, the story line is rather cheesy but the special effects are just fantastic and make the movie worth to watch! It is a simple bad-guys-want to destroy-and-rule-the-world scenario. Chris Ecclestone is one of the finer actors, and since I will always see him as Doctor Who, I got to say it's nice to see him in another role. Dennis Quaid is always okay, the fight scenes are really nice but the rest of the acting is really dreadful to watch. Again; awesome special effects, you will enjoy them very much. I'm off to watch the sequel now ;-)

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009): Dir: Stephen Sommers / Cast: Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller, Dennis Quaid, Rachel Nichols: Here is the latest attempt to bring a vintage cartoon to the screen and this one pretty much proves that salaries should be cut when it comes to crap such as this. The theme of this junk has always been about teamwork although the screenplay collaboration seems spliced together by kids. The Joe squad assemble and do battle against the Cobra Commander and his army. This all amounts to a lot of action, violence and superb special effects much expected in a Stephen Sommers film. Sommers is the one responsible for those flimsy Mummy films, and this is no improvement. The cast sleepwalk through the film with an ensemble that includes Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller, and Dennis Quaid. Could any of them have possibly seen this as a good career move? Most of them are interchangeable with characters that only hardcore collectors of the action figures will grasp. Watching a group of fraternity guys run around the woods with paint ball guns seems more entertaining this five minutes of this tripe. One wonders if this classic comic book could possibly be filmed effectively. It is more or less an excuse for another moron action film as oppose to a celebration of characters that would likely blow this film up. Score: 2 / 10