G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra Blu Ray

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra Blu Ray Review

I had some reservation about the quality of G.I. Joe prior to the viewing. The studio behind G.I. Joe refused to screen the movie for the critics before the wide release in the theater. This is usually done to prevent bad reviews reaching the public before the release in the theater. The reason cited by the studio was that Transformer’s sequel received fairly poor reviews by the critics and they did not want the same for the G.I. Joe film. After watching the film, I feel it’s on par with Transformer sequel. It’s not bad but it’s not great. All the great special effects and stunts are present in the movie based on Hasbro’s toy and animation franchise. Even so, it is not one of the better movies to be released this year.

The movie revolves around a not very nice arms manufacturer and dealer named James McCullen. His company develops a nano tech weapon to be sold to NATO. However, on the day of the sale, he masterminds the heist of the weapons and threatens to unleash it on the World. He comes through on the threat by using Cobra to unleash the weapon in Paris. To counteract Cobra, G.I. Joe is dispatched to stop the Cobra and McCullen. The two forces collide all over the World. Cobra intends to steal the weapon and G.I. Joes intends on preventing them from unleashing the nano weapons.

The plot is not the important part of the film. It starts with convoluted story of long line of McCullen arm dealer from the 17th century to present day. And, add few cheesy revenge factors from main characters to round out the overall plot. All of it serves as an exercise to showcase the special effects in car chase scenes and fighting scenes. These scenes are very well done. The big budget of the movie shows up in a very good way in the action sequences. Not so much in acting. The two main leads, Marlon Wayans and Channing Tatum are awful. Marlon Wayans should stick with the parody films instead of action. I just can’t buy him as an action hero. Channing Tatum is no better. Had the movie had solid leads and more original plot, it could have been a decent movie. Instead, it’s just another mindless action movie with big budget.

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