I wrote my review on IMDB.com in this thread.
My review is below miamiloverg's message since I replied to it.
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by miamiloverg (Mon Aug 17 2009 15:35:22)
Trair actually made the movie look aight... In my opinion I thought, "Hey, at the very least it will be entertaining... and in many way it was." I was crackin up like crazy... it was hilarious: the cheesy one-liners, horrible effects circa 1980, and not to mention the crazy all over the place story line. Hopefully this movie will make some money so that if they MUST do a sequal at least the effects will be 21st century quality.
It is so sad that this movie happened to a great group of actors...
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by Devillicious14 3 days ago (Sun Nov 15 2009 00:24:37)
UPDATED Sun Nov 15 2009 23:29:25
@ miamiloverg - You took the words right out of my mouth. My younger siblings and I were going to see it in the theatres until my dad said it sucked (his tastes in movies are often the same as ours) so we waited until the DVD release. We watched it this evening. No surprise that my nephews and my brother-in-law liked it. I was bored many times and caught myself daydreaming through ACTION scenes. Who daydreams through action scenes?! That's a first for me.
At first, my siblings and I would make sounds or grin at the lame dialogue. However, halfway through the movie (either because it was getting worse or because we knew it wasn't going to get any better), we started laughing out loud and commenting on the different parts.
There was no depth to the characters, lots of confusing/off the wall action, horrible and corny dialogue, lame effects, and gee, the doctor was a bad guy?! No way! With those looks and that maniacal laugh near the end (that cracked us all up) I would've never guessed.
The main reason why I wanted to see it was because one of my favorite Korean actors (Lee Byun-Hun) played Storm Shadow in it. If you've seen IRIS or A Bittersweet Life, you'd see why I like him so much. His fighting and acting is superb but G.I. Joe gave him a lousy script and character to work with so nobody got to see the real Byun-hun in action. - And WHY in the heck did his shirt get ripped off?
That is all.
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Storm Shadow (Arashikage)
One thing I didn't mention was the fact that ninja are Japanese, right? Last I checked, Byung-Hun was Korean. Not like I cared that much. However, when Storm Shadow (Byung-Hun) was a child in Tokyo, he spoke KOREAN! The kid who played Storm Shadow as a child was Korean too but still... Why would a ninja speak Korean? Meh, just thought I'd mention that. I found it more amusing than annoying. Probably because the whole movie was a joke.
Just for the heck of it, I checked up "ninja" on Dictionary.com and here is the result:
nin⋅ja
[nin-juh]
–noun, plural -ja, -jas. (often initial capital letter) a member of a feudal Japanese society of mercenary agents, highly trained in martial arts and stealth (ninjutsu), who were hired for covert purposes ranging from espionage to sabotage and assassination.
My rating: 3/10
Synopsis
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 organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.Information Source: Yahoo! Movies
That's the best synopsis I could find. It's not worth me searching any longer.
Thoughts? Go ahead and comment. Tell me if you agree or not.
~ Devillicious
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