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Yes, lots of odd devices not fully explained. Here is one more film of this kind which is only worth for the visual effects and digital animation as a matter of fact in large profusion sometimes tiresome. The story is a mere pretext to the display of these effects and animation. This is a more than ordinary story in this kind of movies. The honourable guys and the evil ones (the former very good and the latter very bad) are typical. The story develops itself through a series of violent episodes some absurd and even unintelligible. A group of malefactors called the Cobra who are the owners of a high technology intends to lay hold on the world using nanomite warheads. The Joes are a special team of the good ones who fight the Cobra to prevent that they reach their aim. A detail of this is that the man who runs a company that sells those warheads to NATO gives them also to Cobra. Nothing more dull-witted.

Yeah, I'm sorry. But, this movie was kind of a huge disappointment for me as someone who wasn't really into G.I. Joe as a kid. But, as a fellow geek, I was expecting for this movie to at least get me interested into the franchise. Unfortunately, this isn't the G.I. Joe movie that I was looking for at all. Aside from the casting choices of Dennis Quaid as General Clayton M. Abernathy/Hawk and Christopher Eccleston as Laird James McCullen XXIV/Destro and the characters of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, the rest of the cast weren't that good of portraying the characters at all. And, I didn't like what they did to the Cobra Commander and the Baroness in this movie. Plus, Marlon Wayans wasn't that funny in this movie.So, if you're like a fan of Stephen Sommers, you might find at least four cameos from the cast members of the Mummy 1 & 2. But, you're not gonna get as much excitement from the Mummy movies in this movie. It's best to just skip this movie and go watch the cartoons instead.I'd give "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" a 5 out of 10.

Well there have been tons of reviews, mostly mixed so I will try to keep mine brief. The Good: They included a nice roster of Joe characters, and that felt pretty balanced. The cobra operatives were also well chosen for this initial movie offering. There are a lot of fast paced action scenes and thankfully you can at least tell what is going on from scene to scene. The Bad: Oh boy, well the look of the film is all wrong….this looked and felt like Sci-Fi and not a Military inspired movie. I don't have an issue with making the team international to a point, but I think I would have kept the team true to its American origins and let the international aspect be filled in by ancillary characters. The character connections: brother, sister, lover whatever seemed really off to me and don't work in the movie at all. The Ugly: The pacing was way too fast, and no time was given to reflect on the situations, sometimes too fast just doesn't work. The origin stories, both Destro's, Cobra's, Duke's and Snake Eyes were just awful. None of them resonated or made me care about the characters. I think a clear mistake was trying to move this story into the future and not keeping in mind that these characters and situations are a product of Reagan's 80's and that if you are going to move it forward to a different time you have to update all elements accordingly. To clarify, create a world where you have jingoism as its heart where the shadow of a cold war and a looming threat of terrorism is constantly lurking in the background….ya know…like the world we live in today….more or less.