There ’s a very simple psychometric test to project out if you ’re drop dead to enjoy G.I. Joe : revenge . suppose a kid , playing with his toys , creating an epic , albeit not only coherent adventure for them ; then imagine someone turned everything that kid imagined into a big - budget movie . If that sounds horrible to you , do n’t go see this movie . If you understand why this is the highest compliment I can pay G.I. Joe : Retaliation , you should go ahead and buy your tickets now .
Retaliation improves upon its predecessor in pretty much every way of life imaginable . get going are the Accelerator suits , non - epic railcar chases and Marlon Wayans . Retaliation feels like G.I. Joe — not like the cartoon , not just like the comic , but what people loved about the franchise ( especially the plaything ) . Director Jon M. Chu gets it . It ’s like he made a checklist about what made G.I. Joe limited , and decided Retaliation was gon na have all of it . Which means we get :
• A few covert Joe missions
• A few widget that are a little turn out there but not wholly unbelievable
• Ninja engagement
• the great unwashed pullulate at each other
• Unique - look military fomite round each other
• More ninja fights
And Retaliation packs all this and more into its trim , just - under-100 - minute run sentence . Between the entertainment on sieve and the fresh tempo , there ’s practically no time to think about the film ’s secret plan hole and problems . I ’ve number a few in the spoiler - y musings department below , but let me insure you , when I realise them , I thought , “ Well , that does n’t make much sensation , but I ’m having such a good prison term . Who cares ? ”
Which is another way Retaliation amend on the master . Here ’s a few more things revenge has / does better / does rightfulness more than Rise of Cobra :
• likable characters
• Cool Cobra agents
• Made Cobra Commander look awesome
• Made Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow seem like badasses while they were adults
• A at the same time goofy and cool Cobra secret plan to take over the mankind
• A at the same time idiotic yet diabolical Cobra weapon they habituate to take over the world
• raise the stakes almost immediately ( i.e. had stakes )
revenge is n’t a perfect movie by any means — no one ’s going to confuse it with Citizen Kane — but it ’s a completely sold action at law movie while being a serious-minded love varsity letter to G.I. Joe fan . But it ’s not submissive veneration — Chu truly cherry find fault the gist of G.I. Joe , and brings out its best to the big projection screen in a way that should entertain hardcore fans and mass interview alike .
Assorted Non - Spoiler Musings :
• The Rock was carry to be in a live - activity G.I. Joe movie . I cognise he had a grapple calling before this , but this is his on-key vocation .
• The fact that Chu somehow made this movie mesh with the nonsense of the first one , while somehow still being this entertaining , pee me feel he should advance should kind of special Academy Award . “ Best Transformation of Shit into Gold ” or something like that .
• I detest that Channing Tatum seems like a likeable , rum guy cable . He was a black hole of play in the first Joe movie , but between this and 21 Jump Street , he seems like a genuinely comical , aware dude . I HATE THAT . LET ME HATE YOU , CHANNING TATUM .
• Oh , one more thing — I personally would n’t recommend seeing it in 3D. The action scenes are edit so nimble that the 3D actually makes them a little gruelling to follow , which is a shame . But it may have just been me .
various SPOILER - Y Musings :
• Another thing I loved — people continue their blinking masque on part of the time . I know doer are paid big bucks and showing their face is part of the deal , but it makes a world of difference . Ray Stevenson ’s Firefly was so much more daunting with his masquerade party on .
• I have utterly no theme why they countenance Walton Goggins be an awesome bastard of a prison warden with a ton of with child line — it ’s completely unnecessary to the flick — but it was still awful . Walton Goggins is the best .
• speak of awesome people , Jonathan Pryce understandably had a lot of fun in the role of Zartan as the president , and it express .
• Flint was kind of a non - entity though , correct ? Not only was his reference a second of a neophyte , the actor — well , everytime I saw him , all I could intend is , “ That ’s a mediocre photocopy of Karl Urban . ”
• Thought : Cobra Commander did n’t fathom like Cobra Commander ( which is hunky-dory , because that would have been terrible in a live - action movie ) but he verbalize like Cobra Commander . Well done .
• Holy diddly-shit Duke really died . I hear the rumor , and hoped it was true , but then … he and Roadblock were so awesome . Here is the magic of G.I. Joe : Retaliation — I neglect CHANNING TATUM . Although him being in cathexis of Joe after the first movie is still ludicrous .
• One plot of ground point that was such nonsense I was forced to muse it : The Zartan / Storm Shadow inception story . Almost as dumb as the Duke / Baroness thing from the first movie , but it only takes up about a minute of arc of screen time .
• Man , I was n’t a big fan of turning Storm Shadow into the honorable anti - hero so soon , but I ca n’t say it did n’t match my nerd mentality in a particular way when Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow contend back - to - back .
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