Joe, You're Cool!

The last big stop on summer, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The trailer looked very cool and this is a must-see movie of August. The movie is based on Hasbro's action figures--similar stuff like Transformers. G.I. Joe is directed by Stephen Sommers, the director of The Mummy, one of my childhood movies. So, I saw the super cool poster and watched the movie.

The story is about a secret elite team who faced a major threat from the terrorist organization Cobra. Cobra was backed by an ambitious businessman James McCullen. McCullen made an advanced warhead with Nanomite--some kind of microscopic metal-consuming bugs. The secret team, G.I.Joe, needed to save the world if that Nanomite falls to the wrong hands. McCullen with his evil mind, worked on both sides-the good and the bad. He had an ambition to be the hero of the world and made his family name remembered.

The movie was so action-packed and cool. The action started right from the beginning until the end. The movie was so loud and intensely decorated with Alan Silvestri's score. The story itself was very interesting though it seemed to take elements from The Day The Earth Stood Still with that cannibal bug. The story lacks motive for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Destro. Why did he become Destro? Why did he became obsessed with Nanomites? The casts were quite star studded from Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, and Sienna Miller. Miller was so different from her other characters in her other movies. In the first bit of the movie, Tatum was very bad. How come he became a soldier with the attitude of a lazy boy? But after he joined G.I. Joe, he got better. Unfortunately, the CGI effects in this movie were not good enough. The Eiffel Tower scene was quite good though. But most of them were still visible to the eyes as a computer effect unlike previous effects-filled summer movies such as Terminator Salvation, Star Trek, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. However one thing did catch my eye: Rachel Nichols. She was marvellous with her red hair. The way she drove her bike in Paris (although I think it was a CGI), was incredibly stunning. She definitely became one of my favourite. As the ending was very open, a sequel is a must. So, I'm waiting for the second installment with Rachel Nichols returning as Scarlett. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: rated B+.