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A team lead by an American (of course), based in the Saraha Desert, fighting a Scottish bad guy working out of an underwater base under the North Pole and features two arch enemy martial arts brothers - one Asian, and one of No Fixed Origin.
Not that any of that is all actually important...
Let's face it, you have forked out your hard earned for the action, and for the most, part G.I. Joe : The Rise Of Cobra delivers in a slightly less big-budget but oddly more fun way than the recent Transformers 2.
Why
this is has very little to do with the action itself, which is
competent but never really spectacular - no matter how many underwater
explosions, jet packs, action heroes in super-suits and collapsing
Effiel Towers appear on screen.
It all comes down to the
characters themselves; they might be barely two dimensional, but at
least there is some actual character there:
The leader has an angsty past full of heartbreak but he still fights on. The sidekick is sort of funny Dennis Quaid (as the general in charge of the Joe's) chew up the scenery like it was made out of chocolate. The women look sexy as they blow stuff up. The evil scientist is hideously disfigured (and, as played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, astonishingly hammy).
Christopher
Eccleston also does a solid job of slumming it as a villain, who is
supposedly secretly running a terror organisation, but sticks his
company logo on all the terrorists gear. A mysteriously pointless Brendan Fraser cameo aside (in fact, Stephen Sommers slips in quite a few references to The Mummy if you keep an eye out), there is not a whole lot to think about with G.I. Joe : The Rise Of Cobra. If you are seeing a movie called G.I. Joe, chances are that's exactly how you like it. DVD Special Features
Commentary by Director Stephen Sommers, featurettes
including "The Big Bang Theory: The Making of G.I Joe" and "Next Gen
Action: The Amazing Visual FX" plus a look at the Design of G.I Joe.
Meh.
Conclusion:
Movie 70% Extras: 80%
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