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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2009
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 58m
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 organisation to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos. (gijoemovie.com)

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2009
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 58m
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Rated 17 Aug 2009
1
4th
more like C.G.I. Joe LoL
Rated 03 Dec 2009
40
14th
Maybe if you liked G.I. Joe as a kid you would disagree with me but this film was crap. There is actually a scene where Channing Tatum drives by a funeral service for his buddy in the rain on his motorcycle with sunglasses on and it is quite possibly the dumbest scene in cinema history. They should have put Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the movie more because he was the best thing about it.
Rated 17 Aug 2009
0
4th
People have this in green tiers. I can't believe it. Seriously guys. Anything above tier 1 for this is downright unacceptable. What's going on? And I thought you guys were cool. Not enough can be said in 500 characters, and I don't want to even make a post with my review in the forums, it's just not worth it. This is a good film in the same way a turd is haute cuisine. Shame on you guys.
Rated 08 Aug 2009
29
17th
A lot more endurable and passable than I expected, but still overwhelmingly recurrent. The action scenes are decorously and properly endowed, but I'm not sold with any of the casting preferences, Channing Tatum to be precise. Oh, and Marlon Wayans.....stop trying. You haven't cultivated anything by just shouting, stomping and using unfunny phrases. The ninjas, mechanical suits and the supposed nemesis (*cough Star Wars cough*) also do not make the ranks. Just product placement for the series.
Rated 13 Aug 2009
5
42nd
A big, silly, corny, stupid, yet somewhat filling action blockbuster. Yes it is ridiculous and does have a script that seemed to be written by an eight year old. At least this movie is fun unlike Michael Bay's abomination.
Rated 16 Mar 2014
33
5th
I saw this at an outdoor theater coupled with Transformers 2. After the second movie was rolling credits we collectively got out of our vehicles and formed a circle. We joined hands and even as strangers made a pact to never speak of what had happened. I've kept my silence until now. In all honesty though, I overpaid for the box of skittles.
Rated 18 Feb 2011
75
58th
For all the negative reviews, people must have had excessively high standards for a movie brought to you by HASBRO. It really wasn't that bad, considering that it's based on a toy. It was an awesome, brainless action movie with lots of cool special effects.
Rated 29 Apr 2013
31
15th
I truly believe that every element in this movie is actually a metaphor for something, and it might seem a ridiculous CGI-actioncheese-fest on the surface, but all the metaphors combined tackle some extremely complex issues regarding the human condition and the universe we exist in. I just haven't been able to properly deciper the True Meaning of it all. Yes, I am afraid I might be too dumb to réally understand the G.I. Joe movie.
Rated 04 Apr 2012
42
13th
As an action movie, it's pretty poor. However, as so-bad-it's-good entertainment, it's quite fun. Bad CGI, over the top action sequences, bizarre one-liners, and a random critical darling (Gordon-Levitt) hamming it up adds to the insane cheesiness. Sommers obviously took what should have been a loose, fun summer action flick way too seriously, landing it squarely in camp territory.
Rated 21 Feb 2012
76
56th
Ok I can understand this not getting good reviews. It's a movie directed by Stephen Sommers about a toy line and stars Channing Tatum (neither one of whose names are actually names). But it's not Michael Bay-bad. In fact some parts are fairly entertaining. Kind of the cinematic equivalent to going to Taco Bell, ordering a number three meal and being pleasantly surprised it didn't lead to intestinal destruction and ten hours of making a run for the border.
Rated 09 Jul 2011
30
22nd
This was a serious chore to watch. The movie tries to be clever by inserting in a bunch of GI Joe references everyone would recognize but this comes off more as grating and idiotic than it is clever as the movie is naturally cliche as all hell. The casting is pretty god awful as well, who in the hell in their right mind thinks that it was good idea to hire Marlon Wayans for this movie? The action, which would be the movies saving grace, is also poor and forgettable mired with bad special effects
Rated 05 Feb 2011
32
7th
Ok, this is immensely bad. But I loved the red Joe.
Rated 23 Sep 2010
43
12th
Boring, silly film. Makes the animated film from the 80's look fantastic. It really seems as if a standard crap action movie that was already wirtten and someone wrote in a few JOE character names.
Rated 31 Jul 2010
15
3rd
My little brother: getting me to watch shitty hollywood action movies for over a decade. thx man. Nice message; the military industrial complex can better run the world than elected officials and diplomats. A fascist pile of poopy. Explosion fatigue/numbness kicks in after about 20 minutes. Can't say enough bad things really...
Rated 26 Jun 2010
20
6th
It's terrible, but kind of cool in a nostalgic way.
Rated 24 Jun 2010
86
42nd
I remember my younger brother and i yelling "SNAKE EYES!" as he jumped, no wait, DOVE, out of a chopper into battle. It touched my childhood soft spot. There were some weak points. But in the end it played out good. YO JOE!
Rated 15 Jan 2010
50
12th
The one bright spot in this movie is Byung-Hun Lee and Ray Park as the memorable Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes. Unfortunately they still receive way too little screen time and we get lots of Marlon Wayans cracking dumb jokes at the camera. The entire movie looks like it was pieced together by Hollywood producers who wrote ad libs directed by the hack Stephen Sommers. The CGI is also hilarious at times and is worse than what you would see in a game like Call of Duty Modern Warfare.
Rated 30 Nov 2009
14
2nd
Fearlessly exhibiting almost everything that a movie can do wrong.
Rated 19 Nov 2009
22
3rd
What do you get when a movie's only attempt is to be cool and fails? This pile of garbage. One of the stupidest movies I've ever seen. Being an action movie does not make it ok to suck. Why the hell is the CGI so bad and over used? Stephen Sommers is undeniably in Michael Bay's class.
Rated 08 Nov 2009
45
15th
For a summer action movie this was really boring. Did not care at all.
Rated 03 Oct 2009
71
29th
Going in with zero expectations this was a reasonably entertaining action movie. It's ridiculous but it's fast paced and doesn't take itself seriously.
Rated 01 Oct 2009
4
32nd
What did this cost? 10 grand? The CGI was amazingly bad. And the acting was terrible: Why does Hollywood insist on cramming awful actors like Tatum and Wayans down our throats? Still. I couldn't help but love a couple of the über-cheesy, über-ridiculous action sequences. The reasoning by the producers was probably along the lines of: "Let's dress people up in silly costumes and blow everything up... and then, uhm, sprinkle it with a few extra explosions and some even more silly costumes!"
Rated 11 Sep 2009
22
11th
Didn't even keep my attention long enough to remember the character's names. Maybe if I was a fan of the comic? Cobra Commander was the only one I remembered.
Rated 29 Aug 2009
41
16th
I have a feeling I would enjoy the film more if I were ADHD and taking antidepressants for my unrelenting sense of self-loathing. Tatum (the world's most baffling A-lister) and Quaid seem confused most of the time, and ruin the experience. Sienna Miller can't walk in heels (and if you're going to do it at the North Pole, you better be pretty damned impressive). And the characters' motivations were terrible. The one positive: I want a sequel so I can see more Levitt rightfully hamming it.
Rated 20 Aug 2009
66
46th
Cinematic mayhem!
Rated 19 Aug 2009
60
57th
Entertaining stupid fun.
Rated 13 Aug 2009
25
4th
This is cheesy, roll-your-eyes at material. The action is nonstop and it doesn't matter. The movie is embarrassing in every area from start to finish. The acting is terrible, the dialogue is terrible, the plot is terrible, the special effects vary from awful to decent. I would've loved this movie at six years old, but the fact that I'm not anymore means that it's just plain awful, and it really is that bad.
Rated 10 Aug 2009
40
3rd
The good: should keep the 15 & under crowd distracted (if not necessarily entertained) for 2 hours; Sienna Miller's outfits r very pleasing 2 the fetish community; the screen time given 2 the faceless "accelerator suits" is kept 2 a minimum; & kudos 2 Eccleston 4 managing 2 make a decent villain despite some of the worst dialogue & characterization this side of George Lucas' last 3 Star Wars flicks. The bad: EVERYTHING else. The ugly: so bad a sequel isn't inevitable, but still likely.
Rated 16 Apr 2023
70
46th
Top badass moment? A Mars a day really does help you work, rest and play, and trash Paris - always a plus. CEO of Mars, Doctor Who, tries his hand at a Scottish accent but ends up sounding like he’s really posh and from Yorkshire, so decides to throw lava lamps around instead. Meanwhile, Action Man (with real hair) turns up with all the cool gadgets my parents refused to buy for mine, thus stopping everything from turning into what looked like pea & ham soup. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 16 Oct 2022
50
29th
I just watched the dumbest movie ever made. Unfortunately, I also was born in the early 80's so I was a GI Joe fan as a kid and enjoyed seeing those characters in a live action movie. Still ... what's up with the robot mech suits? And shouldn't Baroness be German (or Austrian)?
Rated 19 Apr 2022
78
56th
Hyperkinetic action film marks Sommers’ most galvanising and exciting action film to date – like one of the mid-tier MISSION IMPOSSIBLEs, this is really just three or four good action sequences clumsily tied together with baffling exposition, but the excitement of the action (especially the Paris-set showstopper) and a fun cast leaning in to the silly (Miller’s catty, bitchy villain is a standout) makes the forward momentum powerful enough to forgive the flaws.
Rated 20 Jan 2022
54
9th
Might be the dumbest movie I've seen in a while. I didn't hate it, though.
Rated 24 Dec 2021
50
45th
(C)GI galore. All action with minimal character building. But it entertains none the less
Rated 30 Aug 2021
67
28th
I revisited this film in 2021 after only seeing it once when it first came out. I realized I couldn't remember anything about it, and that's for a good reason, this is an incredibly bombastic film that is forgettable because it's over-convoluted and lacking actual character or story depth. There's literally nothing here but CGI spectacle and flat, bombastic action. I am curious when I revisit Retaliation, because that one....I do remember much more.
Rated 04 Jun 2020
68
31st
Americans saved the world again!
Rated 25 Aug 2019
69
55th
The acting is universally dreadful here and the low budget production values are frequently distracting, but there's a lot of OTT action fun to be had here with the Paris scene a surprisingly excellent sequence.
Rated 28 Aug 2018
85
54th
Take a moment to appreciate the Brendan Fraser cameo. That fleeting moment before his entire life went to shit.
Rated 11 Apr 2018
55
22nd
G.I. Joe is all over the place and contains very little not found in other, better, action movies. However with Stephen Sommers at the helm there is an inescapable sense of fun and lighthearted comedy. The script is 95% quips and 5% cringy exposition to be sure. So take it for what it is. Brainless and not at all Taxing entertainment.
Rated 12 Mar 2018
72
47th
The accelerator suits were dumb.
Rated 19 Nov 2017
5
42nd
G.I Joe is a colossal, yet fun mess of a movie. Wether that was an over-arching villian, to laughably bad acting at times, to some okay CGI, Rise of Cobra missed what made the old show so popular, yet while targeting the same audience, but it's fair to wonder if that's ultimately what's the downfall of this movie, as anything based of an action figure toy line. If you can look past all the issues, G.I Joe is watchable. However, it clearly wasn't meant for the big screen quite yet.
Rated 04 Aug 2017
38
14th
Loud, boring, confused and full of plotholes, it sadly pushed back Tatum's stardom for a couple of years more.
Rated 31 Oct 2016
54
14th
54.000
Rated 10 Sep 2016
57
41st
I probably would've disliked it had I had my eyes glued to the screen for the full two hours, especially since the scenes I did watch seemed strangely disorienting at times. As background noise while doing homework, however, it worked like a charm. Some of the big explosions were fine, but I was kinda surprised by how bad a lot of the stuff looked. Even the plane that they got out of--meaning, I'm guessing, that it was not actually bad CG, but a real plane--looked off somehow.
Rated 05 Dec 2015
45
20th
C-
Rated 27 Sep 2015
73
61st
Aksiyon filmi olarak içinde ne ararsan var, görsel efektler ve teknoloji çok iyi kullanılmış sonuç başarılı olmuş.
Rated 19 Aug 2015
95
63rd
Directed by Stephen Sommers , G.I. Joe revolves around the story of McCullen (Christopher Eccleston), a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer and his weaponized nanotechnology, which when deployed can eat away an entire city much. On the side of the good guys is the international military unit known as G.I. Joe, a unit with every technology at their disposal. Why does the team's ninja still fight with swords when they have all this technology? I have no idea, but you decide it.
Rated 25 Feb 2015
65
12th
To predictable
Rated 18 Dec 2014
60
10th
Weak story. Cool action.
Rated 23 Nov 2014
25
9th
Yep, unfortunately this was really bad. Tatum should stick to comedies in my opinion because him and Wayans were awful. Along with most of the other cast as well. The story was plot-hole ridden, and the action was cheesy CGI. All of my nostalgia for the franchise was thrown out the window.
Rated 13 Nov 2014
25
4th
It's few thrills are the cavalier total destruction of London via kinetic bombardment and a random RZA cameo. Correctly treats Snake Eyes like the chump that he is.
Rated 15 Aug 2014
2
7th
G.I. Joe was never going to be a decent film and unsurprisingly it is awful. When the source material is toy action figures then what hope is there really for a viable film. People old enough to remember G.I. Joe won't like this film and realistically it doesn't need to be reintroduced to a new audience. Especially when you consider the competition of the Transformers films for example. Which are also awful. It's style over substance that amounts to nothing. Let's see how many sequels we get.
Rated 08 Aug 2014
75
90th
It was at the point where a ninja with a jetpack rocketed out of an underground missile silo in the middle of the desert that I turned to the person I was watching this film with and whispered, "This is absurd."
Rated 02 May 2014
5
3rd
When the source material is awful, there's really only one direction to go. Oh, why can't the adapt Robotech or Star Blazers!!!
Rated 29 Dec 2013
40
31st
Taken as a pure action film, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a fun movie. It's paced very well, it has some inventive and creative scenes, and it has enough characters to ensure that the fights are rarely the same. However, if you look past the pure "fun" aspect, you'll notice a severely lacking script, too many characters to pay attention to or develop, actors who don't seem to care a whole lot, special effects that are often lacking, and a film that works best as background noise.
Rated 19 Dec 2013
35
9th
Gave this exactly the time it took to eat my dinner, which seemed to be exactly as much time as it deserved. In case you're wondering I watched the Chase thorugh Paris, which was played cringeworthily straight, considering this is a universe where everyone should have gotten their shit together and have watched "Team America" by now.
Rated 16 Dec 2013
37
14th
The self-evidence that every single character displayed handling this new and formidable but crazy difficult technologies irritated the crap out of me. Plus, this script is just a mess, a pile of bad choices and irritating plot twists.
Rated 21 Oct 2013
17
8th
There are very few moments of cool and fun here, in between lots of nada and numb. *Preview*: #13#, re-2*, popcorn, pre-sequel, oldies(2), R1 }*{ #09#, popcorn, hype, story, (actresses).
Rated 01 Aug 2013
36
12th
Essentially a live-action cartoon whose frenetic pace and fun-loving attitude does a lot to make up for the bad acting, occasionally shoddy CGI and incomprehensible action.
Rated 03 Jun 2013
20
3rd
Wow, fuck this movie so hard. It was bad from start to finish.
Rated 21 May 2013
50
15th
Wow those are some cool toys. Essentially all that can be taken from this movie. Thanks for making the bad guy Scottish and with a terrible accent. And we would speak gaelic, not whatever the hell celtic is supposed to be. Lazy...
Rated 06 May 2013
65
7th
Right from the beginning till the very end of the movies, there is just so much happening in the movie. And yet, you realize, when the movie ends, it has gone nowhere. Good for action lovers. You will not get bored.
Rated 25 Apr 2013
45
17th
I was expecting a lot of dumb action and bad dialogue, but I was kind of expecting to enjoy that. But man, this movie is so goddamn stupid. To me, it was just boring. All the performances were bad, except for perhaps Gordon-Levitt's. The CGI was sometimes okay, sometimes absolutely awful, and sometimes so ridiculous that it was kinda awesome. I don't even really know what happened in the film now, because it just didn't make me care enough to pay attention. I can't really recommend it.
Rated 02 Apr 2013
67
8th
I did not grow up watching G.I. Joe nor did I have the toys. I have no frame of reference here. It's not offensively bad, but the acting is just sort of passable and the CGI is hit-and-miss. Very generic.
Rated 28 Mar 2013
40
9th
Silly, but not fun enough to back up the silly. I did enjoy JGL's eyebrow acting.
Rated 17 Mar 2013
10
12th
Piece of shit.
Rated 06 Mar 2013
65
30th
65 could be known by many as a score that's too high for this film! However, I, for some reason, seem to actually really enjoy this film as a film that you can watch just for entertainment and for nothing else. Yes it's not a great film, but it's built for nothing more than your entertainment. And it does well at that
Rated 09 Dec 2012
20
6th
Hard to fuck up more than this
Rated 22 Oct 2012
75
90th
Great action sequences and an ending that leaves you begging for more in a stunning cliffhanger.
Rated 16 Oct 2012
50
49th
The CGI is way over the top, overdone, but with decent effect. The story was at best ridiculous, but nevertheless was pretty exciting anyway. The acting is mostly unremarkable, and Sienna Miller looks like someone else. Marlon Wayans was an odd casting choice. OK Music. Tons of action and plenty going on throughout, so it's hard not to enjoy watching it, even though it really has a terrible plot that is full of stupid nonsense. The ending was rushed, and left unfinished for a follow up.
Rated 28 Sep 2012
35
12th
A bad action movie that feels longer then it actually is. For having such cool character designs, every character feels so generic and annoying. The car chase is kind of cool until even I, an uncultured American swine who has never left the U.S., noticed that Paris streets are not accurate and they're just trying to cram every tourist spot possible into one scene.
Rated 23 Jun 2012
30
1st
3 of 4 -- Entertainment. 0 of 2 -- Food For Thought. 0 of 2 -- Opens The Heart. 0 of 2 -- Sustainability Values.
Rated 06 Mar 2012
19
13th
Stephen Sommers really isn't very talanted, but people keep giving him small fortunes of cash to make very bland action movies, & so we have this. Tatum is a strange one too, with his stupid name, physique like he been built from Lego, & his boss-eyed face all very irritating as he spreads his talentless self all around this film. Admittedly there are worse movies about than this, but the awful script & performances, the silly situations & average CGI all make something of very low quality.
Rated 10 Dec 2011
58
31st
Surprisingly not as good as I wanted it to be, but not a bad movie.
Rated 25 Oct 2011
19
12th
never seen such a terrible mess of a maybe big action movie. it looks nice with some nice or good action scenes and a quite mediocre use of Visual effects as usual because it was a Sommers movie but a bit improvement. plot was not interesting at all with an awfully written screenplay. editing was bad and so was everything else. the characters and acting performances weren't good or likable at all. it was forgettable and awfully made. and that underwater battle?
Rated 12 Sep 2011
60
16th
Pretty good action, trite and predictable storyline, and hot women. Just one simple problem. Ice floats. And even Hollywood can't defy the laws of physics.
Rated 11 Sep 2011
60
6th
It was ok-ish, but then a bit awful.
Rated 05 Sep 2011
0
1st
Words cannot describe how utterly awful this film is. If Criticker did negative ratings this would get them.
Rated 26 Aug 2011
50
24th
JGL
Rated 23 Aug 2011
50
15th
About as smart as Tranformers, with none of the subtly.
Rated 06 Aug 2011
55
15th
The fact that they made this peice of shit with a clear eye to making a sequel is the most insulting thing of all.
Rated 03 Aug 2011
25
10th
Well... it had a lot of explosions...
Rated 17 Jul 2011
20
4th
derp
Rated 22 Apr 2011
50
9th
Not as bad as most people pretended, but still
Rated 17 Apr 2011
2
1st
Yeeeccchhh.
Rated 24 Mar 2011
30
12th
This is the type of movie you wait to see in theaters till everyone has seen it and there are only a few people there. Then you can be noisy by laughing and mocking it. It was a piece of shit, but worth every penny of my 8 bucks.
Rated 06 Feb 2011
80
44th
I wanted to like it more than I did. It had potential it did not realize. The effects where good.
Rated 17 Jan 2011
45
20th
4 worth experiencing
Rated 16 Jan 2011
50
1st
Thoroughly stupid
Rated 11 Jan 2011
32
24th
Compared to Bay's Transformers, this is harmless. JGL slums epically.
Rated 04 Jan 2011
40
59th
Aside from Channing Tatum not getting out of character for Notebook and his incessantly terrible acting, the film was quite good and a better parallel to Iron Man. It had great graphics and lots of action. The only points that seemed really week were the Nano-Bot Bombs (why do they keep going and going and going?)
Rated 29 Dec 2010
42
23rd
Can't understand what audience is this movie for...G.I.Joe is dedicated to young people, let's say straight - kids. Comics are close to the same audience so...WTF is going on? A lot of 'brutal' solutions, way too heavy for this age-range to bear without being affected. Acting poor as hell and if it comes to fights - definitely for adults. Guess that someone had only money in his/her sick mind. Beside that only thing that may want You to see it are special effects...at least major part of them.
Rated 24 Dec 2010
5
0th
G.I. Joe must be understood as an authentic measurement of our cultural values. Its appeal to the pop-commercial synapses also demonstrates livelier filmmaking than such utter banality as Iron Man and Star Trek and Harry Potter's Half-Blooded Chintz.
Rated 17 Dec 2010
15
11th
there is one good scene in this hole friking movie
Rated 09 Dec 2010
1
4th
lolwut
Rated 17 Oct 2010
20
41st
"Sommers seems to be operating under what he perceives as a pact between himself and his 11-year-old fanbase, to simply provide them with as much awesome **** as he's allowed to shovel at the screen." - Ryan Stewart
Rated 01 Oct 2010
84
22nd
good
Rated 27 Sep 2010
67
27th
This one came way out of left field. It's a terribly mediocre action flick that has nothing to do with "GI Joe" and hardly even makes sense. Shame on you Hollywood, for raking in all the 80's kids with this nonsensical piece of junk.
Rated 20 Sep 2010
35
33rd
corny
Rated 26 Jun 2010
9
55th
Final Rating: 9/100 (F) - This movie is reserved for the brainless only. With thin dialogue and a gunshot every two minutes, this movie totally insults my exceedingly high intelligence.
Rated 14 Jun 2010
60
32nd
look at the elements the director of the mummy franchise...a wayan brother..and alot of cgi in the trailers..what do you expect Hamlet...its fun, brain dead delight of just stupid catch phrases and unreal situations and of course over the top overacting...its got a few scenes I loved...but again its what it is

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