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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure
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Actors:
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Matt Malloy,
Robin Atkin Downes,
Chris Edgerly,
Andy Milder,
Brian Bloom,
Bumper Robinson,
Leigh Allyn Baker,
Wally Wingert,
Andrew Kishino,
Josh Robert Thompson,
Patrick Seitz,
Charles Fathy,
Dave B. Mitchell,
Pete Sepenuk,
Grey DeLisle,
Steve Blum,
Roger Craig Smith,
Nancy Truman,
Rodney Saulsberry,
Chopper Bernet
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Rating:
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(4.7/10)457
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Plot Summary:
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An elite military constituent comprised of unusual operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an ruin organization led beside a shaming arms dealer.
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Richard KuipersPlaying more like a highlights reel from an established franchise than a movie intended to launch it, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra interrupts its barrage of CGI action for only the barest minimum of anything resembling character development. Still, young auds switched on to precisely this sort of entertainment should turn this futuristic, military-themed pic into a significant worldwide hit and help toy company Hasbro -- also suppliers of raw materials for the Transformers films -- to its second merchandizing bonanza of the summer. Paramount's unwillingness to screen for critics, however, suggests something less than confidence in its big-budget investment.
Launched in 1964 as a series of plastic military figures and reworked in comic and cartoon fo...
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Betsey Sharkey There are a few things we should go over on the G.I. Joe front before you lock and load for the nearly two hours of supersonic warfare that is Stephen Sommers' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. First the plot, and this will probably surprise you: Well-equipped bad guys want to take over the world; well-equipped good guys fight back. Cool futuristic machines, weapons and CGI make for lots of excellent exploding and imploding everywhere. You guess who wins. Next. Don't call them G.I. Joes. They're just Joes, like Cher or Madonna, I guess. And like those superstars, they come with fantastical, out-of-this-world staging. The next thing to keep in mind is that Dennis Quaid's Gen. Hawk, who runs the super-secret Joe project, loves his Joes, as in...
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