Fernando Mexia, the pen.
If you love the saga of The Mummy and enjoyed the sequel to Transformers it is likely that GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is the film you were expecting this summer to kill the bug-paced action and display of special effects. A film with a script very undemanding officially presented on the big screen to the successful toys Hasbro , that body of elite U.S. soldiers who fight day in and day out the dangerous Cobra and his minions. A battle seen in cartoons to liven now Dennis Quaid ( The Day After Tomorrow ) or an increasingly popular Channing Tatum ( Step Up ).
The secrecy practiced by Paramount with the press to hide the critics the debut of the "Joes" before the official release, to avoid negative reactions, ultimately lacks merit. Unwarranted fear in view of the result in box office reviled by the media Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, possibly one of the worst stories of recent years but now exceeds 800 million dollars of revenue worldwide. GI Joe is directed to the same audience and is defined with a series. To its credit, the script is something more elaborate than the last robot; against him, the special effects are not as caring as they should.
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra introduces the audience to the heart of the secret organization of elite military launched by U.S. to combat global threats in the shadow which highlights potential technology conventional security forces. Some special forces led by General Hawk (Quaid) who recruit by accident a couple of valiant soldiers, Duke (Tatum) and Ripcord (Wayans Marlons), in order to protect first-and-back-after-a sophisticated weapon nanotechnology able to shatter anything that was his path. The rest of the unit Joes protagonists are "camouflaged" Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and the technological Braker (Saïd Taghmaoui). Surprise is a brief cameo by Brandon Fraser, an avowed fan of GI Joe and friend of director Stephen Sommers, who asked him to give him a bit part in the story while they were filming the third part of The Mummy.
The beautiful Sienna Miller will face "sweet" the universe opaque Cobra, which is defined as the film progresses, perhaps most interesting about the production, which ends in a disturbing way, an ending that does not stand without a sequel.
Fans of the series of drawings and those who played with the dolls could be left feeling disappointed by the superficiality with which addresses some of the characters or the role that some, such as General Hawk, which is half the movie KO and is limited to harangue his pupils without being directly involved in the action. Nor fundamental decisions. The affair entrelos characters Tatum and Miller which aims to move the conflict between good and evil to an emotional level is sometimes misplaced. The story does not stop at the origins of the mysterious Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow down with (Byung Hun Lee), dating back to childhood in a martial arts school in Japan.
Special effects, on the other hand, show inconsistent, with sequences quite collected, such as persecution on the streets of Paris and the resulting destruction, though often suspended in the little details are what eventually define the quality of a product . Of note is the finish of some images, more of an aesthetic game that has little to do with the resolution reached by Michael Bay on Transformers.
