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Starring:
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph
Gordon-Le…
Review:
I don’t know what to say about the acting, writing and directing
in G.I. Joe because I couldn’t find any. There were scads
of pretty people posing awkwardly in military chic and tossing out
lame one-liners. Take this exchange between Army pals Duke
(Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans):
Ripcord: “I’ve been thinking.”
Duke: “I warned you about that.”
To be fair, not thinking is good advice if you line up for
G.I. Joe, the next phase of Paramount’s Cash for Clunkers
campaign, begun with Transformers 2. You know, we lay out
the cash and the studio thoughtfully supplies the clunkers.In a
tight economy, why do we lavish cash on movies based on plastic
battle toys? Maybe we just want some dumb fun. Too bad they left
out the fun part. There are special effects, lots of them,
but…
Rating: 0 Stars
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