Let’s face it: you probably already know if you want to see this film or not. Go with your first instinct.
End of review.
Oh, you’re still here? Okay, here’s something else — if you’re a child of the 80s and you hated what they did with Transformers, then skip this movie. If you were at least okay with that, then see this movie.
If you’re not a childhood G.I. Joe fan but you want some mindless fun and you promise not to think over the plot too deeply afterward, then, see this movie. If you can’t make that promise, then you should probably skip it.
As for me, I had fun enough with it. I set my expectations fairly low, and it met them, while being a reasonable amount of fun in the process. The weaponry was suitably futuristic, the acting was satisfyingly over-the-top, and they threw in the destruction of a world icon — I love disaster movies, so that was right up my alley.
My chief complaint is that for a movie that even by genre standards is shameless in its setting up for a sequel, they dispensed with some classic characters in fairly cavalier fashion (though I suspect at least one will be making an improbable return from the dead).
On a scale of 1 to 10 “Yo, Joes!” I’d give it 7, which is 6 more than the movie gives us.
'80s Nostalgia · Films · G.I. Joe · War
