GI JOE- The Rise of Cobra
August 11th 2009 12:46
Dir: Stephen Sommers
Genre: Action, Adventure,Science Fiction
Running Time: 118 mins
This is a ‘Boys Own’ adventure flick of the best kind. Lots of whiz bang visual effects, heroes and villains slugging it out in exotic and fantastic locations, a plot line that requires an IQ in single figures to follow and weaponry and military outfits that leave nothing to the imagination.
This film is a great romp into a futuristic world protected by the GI JOEs. Their mortal enemy McCullen, with an appalling Scottish accent, played by Christopher Eccleston is superbly evil – clearly modeled on every American Banker interviewed on TV over the past twelve months, even down to the suit. Yes, he’s thoroughly evil – to the very core. For the eagle eyed too there’s some fun with cameos played by Brendan Fraser and Kevin J O’Connor.
Sienna Miller plays the wonderfully evil Ana aka The Baroness, vamping it up any time she’s on screen. Any claims that this film is just for little kids is very much mistaken. Her dominatrix persona and penchant for easy violence makes her an ideal foil for her ex fiancé Duke. Any similarities to TV soaps here is purely coincidental.
This film is at its very core an animation with a wide range of quality voice talents. In other words this film will not, and was never intended to, pick up any Oscars. Get over expecting this to be something that it was never intended to be and enjoy it for what it is, great fun and high jinks while the heroes and villains wear cool action gear. However, it does hit the mark in many ways – it’s a great kids film, its pure escapism, it looks fabulous, everything blows up at least once, all the good guys, well most of them survive to fight another day. For the uninitiated, the film leaves us hanging for the next gripping installment of this soon to be megabucks franchise.
This film is definitely a winner from my perspective. This is a boys/guys film, and I had a great time watching it. Leave the girls at home or shopping while you escape for a while into a world of high tech gadgetry and ninja nonsense, in the not too distant future.
3.5/5
Genre: Action, Adventure,Science Fiction
Running Time: 118 mins
Channing Tatum aka 'Duke' leaving nothing to the imagination
This is a ‘Boys Own’ adventure flick of the best kind. Lots of whiz bang visual effects, heroes and villains slugging it out in exotic and fantastic locations, a plot line that requires an IQ in single figures to follow and weaponry and military outfits that leave nothing to the imagination.
This film is a great romp into a futuristic world protected by the GI JOEs. Their mortal enemy McCullen, with an appalling Scottish accent, played by Christopher Eccleston is superbly evil – clearly modeled on every American Banker interviewed on TV over the past twelve months, even down to the suit. Yes, he’s thoroughly evil – to the very core. For the eagle eyed too there’s some fun with cameos played by Brendan Fraser and Kevin J O’Connor.
Sienna Miller as 'Ana' . This really is a kids film , honest.
Sienna Miller plays the wonderfully evil Ana aka The Baroness, vamping it up any time she’s on screen. Any claims that this film is just for little kids is very much mistaken. Her dominatrix persona and penchant for easy violence makes her an ideal foil for her ex fiancé Duke. Any similarities to TV soaps here is purely coincidental.
This film is at its very core an animation with a wide range of quality voice talents. In other words this film will not, and was never intended to, pick up any Oscars. Get over expecting this to be something that it was never intended to be and enjoy it for what it is, great fun and high jinks while the heroes and villains wear cool action gear. However, it does hit the mark in many ways – it’s a great kids film, its pure escapism, it looks fabulous, everything blows up at least once, all the good guys, well most of them survive to fight another day. For the uninitiated, the film leaves us hanging for the next gripping installment of this soon to be megabucks franchise.
This film is definitely a winner from my perspective. This is a boys/guys film, and I had a great time watching it. Leave the girls at home or shopping while you escape for a while into a world of high tech gadgetry and ninja nonsense, in the not too distant future.
3.5/5
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