G.I. Joe : Retaliation (2013) Review

 

Well, it was a better improvement over the first one, with new casts; and adding The Rock definitely improved your failing franchise. The action scenes were much better, more logical and enjoyable rather than the first film over-the-top cheesiness and those were definitely thrown out of the window in this one.

Removing Stephen Sommers as the director and hiring John M Chu was clearly a good decision. You can see the movie was directed by a different director for the sequel and it was a good decision. Still, this movie was riddled with a lot of campiness, and a plot that seems to be taking inspiration from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

The funny thing that I noticed while I was watching this movie is that how the plot was really similar to Captain America: The Winter Soldier. An evil organisation who everyone think is dead but actually is running behind the scenes and slowly planning for a world domination, with the final act involving weapons of mass destruction that can target millions of lives? Hmm. Even the Cobra and Hydra symbols are similar. Since Retaliation came out first, I guess the Russos might have taken their inspiration from an unexpected movie. Maybe. But hey even if they did, at least they did it better.

And hey, this film got Adrianne Palicki in military gears and leather boots. That was definitely a an extra point.

6/10