G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

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PG-13

8/7/20091h 58m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ When all else fails, they don't. ~

Overview:

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

Director:

Stephen Sommers

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$175,000,000.00

Revenue:

$302,500,000.00

Key words:

government
technology
hostage
laser
warhead
president
revenge
murder
attack
terrorism
explosion
scientist
evil
cobra
2020s

Cast

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

~ as ~

Heavy Duty

Christopher Eccleston

~ as ~

McCullen / Destro

Lee Byung-hun

~ as ~

Storm Shadow

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

~ as ~

The Doctor / Rex

Sienna Miller

~ as ~

Ana Lewis / Baroness

Rachel Nichols

~ as ~

Scarlet

Ray Park

~ as ~

Snake Eyes

Jonathan Pryce

~ as ~

U.S. President

Saïd Taghmaoui

~ as ~

Breaker

Channing Tatum

~ as ~

Duke

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Reviews (2)

JPV852
Written 4 year(s) ago
5
Entertaining in parts but a mess of a plot with some shoddy visual effects even by 2009 standards. Some stunt work was alright but nothing that really stands out and none of the cast really were all that memorable. Did appreciate some of the nods to the cartoons but otherwise just very forgettable. 2.75/5
GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
1
People like me were waiting for a GI Joe movie for decades. It was instead kind of a hack that could have been any other movie.

I don't think that the distaste came from the fact that the movie could never live up to memories of childhood play. I think that the distaste came from the knoweldge that Larry Hama had decades of fun and wonderful stories to tell, he had written an entire little universe... and the movie was nothing like it.

It hardly even resembled the cartoon.