When you see this tagline, you definitely know where it come from. Yes. G.I. Joe. Today, I went to watch the movie all by myself. With no friends and family. Only strangers is sitting right beside me. Funny thing is most people that watch the movie is alone. Not many couple were there or even a group of friends decided to hang out at the cinema. I assume most of them were just only college student who decided to have a break and go catch a movie.
If you were wondering who is who on the movie or you simply have no idea who is who. Let me do the speaking here. From clockwise: Storm Shadow, Baroness, Neo Viper, Cobra Commander, Snake Eye, Duke, Scarlett and Ripcord.
Overall, the movie is trimmed well and nice fighting scene. Besides, a cool CGI effect on the movie. Most of you may have watched the trailer, maybe you know it. The Eiffel Tower felt down after some incident. The sound effect was definitely great. No doubt about it. And the jokes from Marlon Wayans was definitely must watch.
Firstly, I have no idea what this movie is all about. Reason to it is because I didn’t watch any of the animated series. Not sure whether Malaysia got show the series before or not. As far as I know, I don’t seen one of the series in television. So, let’s begin the review. Shall we?
[ Spoiler is inside the review as well ]
So, the story begins long time ago. Maybe few hundreds year back, where we haven’t born into this world. So, Mc Cullen was a traitor to the country for selling the weapon to the enemy and Lord Louis XIII. Because of that, he was forever been masked with a steel mask. From there, he was been named as a Destro.
Back to future, where the Mc Cullen’s descendent – James Mc Cullen succeed the weapon design and selling it to the NATO. He created a nanotechnology with his research in MARS that it can destroy the whole city. NATO decided to buy the weapon from MARS. Duke and Ripcord was assigned to send it to the NATO safely. On the route, they was attacked by the Cobra in which leaded by Baroness aka Ana Lewis aka Duke’s ex-fiancée which casted by Sienna Miller. Hot chick coming along in this movie. Follow with it, is the appearance of the Joe’s to rescue Duke and Ripcord and protect the weapon/warhead. Heavy Duty, Scarlett, Snake Eye and Breaker was there to prevent the warhead from being stolen by the Cobra.
The Joe’s bring along Duke and Ripcord to the Pit in the middle of Egypt, if that I am not mistaken because I assume that after I saw they flew passed the Pyramid of Giza. Mc Cullen is being called and appear on a hologram form to ensure that the warhead is safe and sound. The truth is Mc Cullen is activating a tracking device for the Cobra to hunt it back from the Joe’s.
Just my assumption. Maybe I am right, maybe I am wrong...
Duke and Ripcord decided to stay with the Joe’s because they think they are one of a kind. As far as the movie goes, all the member of the Joe’s are the best of the best in the world and one of a kind style. For example, Snake Eye is talented with the ninja skill, Breaker is the geek in the team, Scarlett is the most intelligent in the team and so on. Duke and Ripcord undergo a intensive training to qualify being a Joe’s. Well, they passed with a flying color and top of the list with the highest in the Joe’s. Both of them will be wearing the Delta 6 Accelerator when there is a mission.
“Evil never look so good”. Quite a nice tagline for the Cobra. Well, I have to agree with it because of Sienna Miller acting as the Baroness. She is hot. I think she is much more hotter than Megan Fox. Sorry, Megan Fox’s fan out there. Just look at the poster, look how hot she is. Anyway, this is not a popularity contest. Besides, the Storm Shadow aka half-brother to Snake Eye is quite awesome with the skill of the shuriken flying around.
Alright, enough craps. Let’s move on. So, the two Cobra’s I just mentioned decided to attack the base camp of the Joe’s and to take back warhead. The Cobra finally retrieved the warhead after destroy a certain part of the base and head to Paris to look for Ana’s husband who was a researcher in particle acceleration. He was forced to activate the warhead and begin the plan to takeover the world.
If you were the Cobra’s, what will leave the Frenchmen in jeopardy and will remember it forever? Just like 9/11 in USA, World Trade Centre is the most memorable thing for the US. So, what do you think it will be for the France? Cheese? Napoleon? Eiffel Tower. I assumed most of you have watched the trailer and the answer definitely will be the Eiffel Tower.
Cool CGI effect...
The Joe’s were unable to stop the Cobra from destroying the Eiffel Tower. Cool CGI effect and credit to them very much. And besides, here is where Marlon Wayans have most lame joke ever for the movie. I mean in the France’s scene. Can’t tell much about the jokes. But you definitely must watch it and laugh it out loud. After the destruction of the Eiffel Tower, the Joe’s were arrested by the Anti Terrorist of France and were later bailed out by their Commander, General Hawk. They were ordered to return to the base camp.
Matrix in G.I. Joe...
Later, Breaker was able to track them down on their location. The Joe’s planned to attack the base camp of Mc Cullen under the Arctic. Meanwhile, Duke was captured by the Cobra’s before that in France. Mc Cullen ordered the Cobra Commander to launch the other three warhead to three separate location – Beijing, Moscow and Washington. After the launch of the warhead, the first one which headed to Beijing easily been destroyed. This show how much they like Beijing.
Ripcord was the expert with Air Force. So, Mc Cullen left the Night Raven at the cave. Ripcord control the Night Raven to track down and destroy the remaining warheads. The rest of the Joe’s are looking for a path to enter the MARS camp. While, Heavy Duty leads the navy squad and attack from outside the MARS camp.
Just so you know, this is the Night Raven.
Baroness started to remember back about Duke and herself during the romantic times. Well, Cobra Commander tried to insert the nano-mites inside the body of Duke, he revealed himself as Rex Lewis aka Baroness’s brother. So, I assume this whole movie is just another revenge plot and also to destroy the world. Duke blame himself for not being able to protect Ana’s brother, Rex after he swore to protect Rex from any harm during the proposal. End up, Rex didn’t die and he turn his own sister into a bad ass.
“When everything fails, they don’t”. Certainly this tagline say it all. Enemy were down and out. The victory belongs to the Joe’s. But I assume they will return with a new sequel to it. Why?
- Destro aka James Mc Cullen and Rex Lewis was captured and seal inside a cubicle. There might be an escaped plan for them by the other member of the Cobra.
- If you watched the movie, before the end of the show – the President of USA was a fake one after Rex Lewis had him transfiguration. The real one? Died.
Guess what’s the ending song? By Black Eyed Peas from The E.N.D – Boom Boom Pow in a remix version. Well, that’s was before I leave the hall. Is a good recommendation for those of you who disappointed with Transformers 2. My rating for this movie was 3.5 out of 5. Worth its gold people. And Sienna Miller is hot!!!
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