G.I Joe (1): The Rise of Cobra
| Released |
2009 |
Rating |
12A in UK |
| Director |
Stephen Sommers |
Writer/s |
Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett |
| Starring |
Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Jonathan Pryce |
| Source of story |
An action figure!! |
| Elevator Pitch |
An arms manufacturer develops a weapon which can deploy nanobots which eat whatever they touch, and with the help of some dastardly assistants including the sinister ”Baroness” intends to take over the world. Only G.I.Joe a secret advanced military organisation, can stop them. But nothing and no-one are quite what they seem. |
| Content |
Almost continuous violence with automatic weapons, swords, martial arts, shells, explosives, guns which sort of disintigrate things, and chases in cars, boats, submarines and aircraft. No sex, but people look lustfully at each other. |
| A View |
Actually Sienna Miller, later known only for having her phone hacked, was pretty good. But some of the characters were obviously intended to be, or had been, released as 12” plastic figures, which in some obscure way limited them. It is one of many ultra action films, so if you have a choice, choose something else. |
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