G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF
COBRA
Credited
as the first “action figure”, G.I. Joe came to life in 1964 as Hasbro’s answer
to Mattel’s Barbie doll. There were actually four Joes—one for each branch of
the armed forces—and in the imaginations of boys everywhere, they fought Nazis.
Forty-odd years later, the Joes have evolved into an international band of
soldiers seeking to bring down the evil Cobra Command. In the first of what’s
likely to be a lucrative new film series, director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy series, Van Helsing) outfits actors Channing Tatum and Marlon Wayans in
“accelerator suits” that allow them to jump cars and busses in a single bound
as they and their team attempt to retrieve a suitcase containing nano
technology that a lunatic billionaire (Christopher Eccleston) plans to use for
world domination. After a first hour that plays like a bad TV show, Sommers
hits his groove with an over-the-top Paris chase sequence that in turn leads to
an underwater finale that’s absurdly overproduced, momentarily diverting, and
then instantly forgettable. The script—by Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, and
Paul Lovett— is full of embarrassingly bad dialogue, but a recent midnight
screening audience laughed benignly, as if to say that they hadn’t exactly been
expecting profundity and wit from a summer season toy soldier flick. (Chuck
Wilson)
I don't know anyone who even THINKS this movie is going to end up being any good. I might just go watch it just to see what kind of disaster it is. It has MESS written all over it.
Posted by: online cinema | July 21, 2010 at 04:41 AM