extravaganza "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' from the prying eyes of
critics and sneak-preview audiences. The studio says it hopes to avoid the
sort of brutal catcalls that greeted "Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen,'' a movie which, with almost $400 million in tickets sold, is no
one's idea of a victim.
The suits shouldn't have bothered: "G.I. Joe'' is a loud but proficient
slab of explode-o-rama summer blockbuster nonsense, perfectly entertaining
if you like that sort of thing, extremely skippable if you don't. The
difference between the "Transformers'' franchise and this is the
difference between the aggressively stupid and the acceptably dumb. In a
spirit of pure generosity, I've awarded an extra half-star to "Joe'' for
not being a Michael Bay movie.
Any resemblance to actual soldiers and actual warfare is accidental, of
course. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' is instead a simple and
simple-minded superhero comic book with a vaguely military theme. The
heroes of the super-secret international G.I. Joe team, taken from several
earlier incarnations of TV series and video games, include blandly
handsome Duke (Channing Tatum), ace flyboy and comic relief Ripcord
(Marlon Wayans), silent ninja fighter Snake Eyes (Ray Park), computer
genius Breaker (Saïd Taghmaoui), and brainiac Scarlett (Rachel Nichols),
all under the gruff command of General Hawk (Dennis Quaid).
Against them are a bunch of baddies bent on - what else? - world
domination, and they've got nano-bombs that can make a meal out of the
Eiffel Tower in minutes. They include Duke's ex-girl-friend the Baroness
(Sienna Miller), a sneering Scottish arms merchant (Christopher
Eccleston), and, of all people, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, that nice young man
from "(500) Days of Summer,'' as the supervillainous Doctor.
Park played Darth Maul in "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace,''
and he gets to restage that film's climactic duel, complete with
double-saber above a bottomless pit. Under the direction of Stephen
Sommers, whose "Mummy'' films are similarly hectic, deafening, and
disposable, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' avoids gung-ho jingoism and
commentary on real-world politics - thankfully, the movie understands it's
based on a line of plastic toys.
As such, it functions very much as the fantasy of a small boy with an
overactive imagination and a limitless budget - your average Hollywood
producer, say. At times it cheats: When Duke and Ripcord don high-tech
"accelerator suits'' and embark on a rock-em-sock-em chase through the
streets of Paris, we're moved way beyond both backyard play and genuine
soldiering.
That sequence, by the way, is state-of-the-art mayhem in which landmarks
collapse, buildings are incinerated, and hundreds of innocent bystanders
are apparently killed. The characters never stop to notice and, really,
why should they? It's just the French.
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