What can you say about GI Joe… At least Mike Bay’s not in charge. Sorry turtles.
Anyhow, if you saw G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, (shut up you know you saw it) you know the titles don’t really make sense. Cobra didn’t really ‘rise’. Otherwise why would they need to ‘retaliate’? Whatever.
As to continuity, something the cartoon tried harder at than this franchise, the baroness is nowhere to be found. Boo, I like Sienna Miller. But I guess the nanites ate her and Duke has moved on with the help of the Rock with whom he has two kids. I might have gotten all that confused but I think that’s basically what’s happening. Since like half the first movie apparently didn’t happen you might be surprised they remembered Zartan was disguised as the president. So that’s at least a problem to solve.
This movie really wasn’t that good. The Rock is a great asset to summer action movies but the thing looks like it was all shot in the same landfill. And apparently world leaders will meet to discuss nuclear disarmament is said landfill.
The Snake Eyes subplot is more interesting than the main one, and features a nifty ninja fight at the top/sides of a big mountain; however I am sooooo over RZA playing a martial arts master. Give it up dude, you are not an asset onscreen. Just make sure the soundtrack comes correct.
Basically this is a big, stupid summer movie that gets by on the Rock’s charm and Ray Park’s(snake eyes) moves. I didn’t like Storm Shadow half as well as I did in the 1st one. Ray Stevenson plays a eurotrash bomber fellow whose point is I guess to make sure there’s a big guy to roll around with the Rock. Bruce Willis is also some girls dad or something?
It doesn’t really matter. That could be the theme for this movie. 3 out of 10 but still fun.