An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 16 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDennis Quaid took the role of General Hawk on the insistence of his son, a fan of G.I. Joe.
- GoofsThe President's "American" accent slips back to Jonathan Pryce's native English accent several times.
- Quotes
Heavy Duty: [about handling the accelerator suits] Careful. They're worth millions of dollars each.
Ripcord: [in a suit] Millions of dollars. Got it.
[falls out of the van]
Heavy Duty: [annoyed] Jesus.
Ripcord: My bad. My bad. Won't happen again!
[Ripcord gets run over by a car]
- Crazy creditsPart of the closing credits appear on a giant metal G.I. Joe logo. Visible on this logo are other military logos, including old G.I. Joe stickers, the US flying stars, and the G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 (2005) Sigma 6 designation.
- ConnectionsEdited from Black Hawk Down (2001)
- SoundtracksBoogie Bumper
Written by Scott Morris (as Scotty Morris)
Performed by The Charlotte Swing Band
Courtesy of Prime Entertainment Group
By arrangement with The Orchard
If you're expecting to see a direct adaptation of the GI Joe cartoon, then that's not what you're going to get here. This is an upgrade in technology and that could actually be quite entertaining for the first hour of the film. It's a big problem when you could tell that a lot of work was put into the special effects and not so much on the character development. I honestly couldn't care for anyone in this movie and it didn't help that they were so annoying.
The plot is very simple. Basically all you need to know is that there are two sides, GI Joe vs. Cobra and they are fighting against each other. You are easily able to identify who is on which side.
The movie is directed by Stephen Sommers that previously did The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and Van Helsing. I actually haven't seen any of the movies in The Mummy series but I have seen Van Helsing and I did like it the first time I saw it. When I watched it recently it was actually quite dull. So, he isn't exactly a great director.
I guess I can briefly talk about the performances. You can't expect the acting in GI Joe to be anything special. In fact, it's quite terrible. No one is believable with these remarkably cheesy lines from the script. Even Dennis Quaid didn't impress me in this. I suppose this is a flaw that would be blamed on the writers, rather than the actors. I do know that Channing Tatum is terrible in anything that he's in. Marlon Waylons was also in it doing the comic relief. I thought that he was funny at times, but mostly his jokes and just fell flat. I can't say more about the performances that hasn't already been mentioned.
The special effects in GI Joe were actually quite good at times, but it looked very fake at other times. Still, it saved it from becoming a complete disaster. I could say that I hated every scene in the movie, with the exception of the Paris scene which was the most fun I has with GI Joe and people seem to agree with me on that.
And of course it ends with characters holding guns and walking towards the camera because it's a stereotypical brainless action movie.
To conclude this review, I'm going to give GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra a 4/10. Still if you are a fan of brainless action movies, you might actually like GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but I still was very bad in my opinion.
- bramb600
- Aug 26, 2009
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- Also known as
- Dark Sky: First Strike
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Box office
- Budget
- $175,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $150,201,498
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $54,713,046
- Aug 9, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $302,469,017
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1