G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
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Back when I was young enough to play with dolls—sorry, “action figures”—G.I. Joe was just a modestly proportioned, multiply articulated World War II grunt, but since then he seems to have mutated into an ultrabuff, multiracial, gender-integrated corps of elite commandos. Loud, shiny, and critic-proof, this franchise launcher is basically Transformers minus the humanity. Dennis Quaid provides some ballast as grizzled patriarch to the troop of sexy young lock-and-loaders, Christopher Eccleston (Shallow Grave) slums as a bargain-basement evil genius, and Stephen Sommers (Van Helsing) directed. Expect more where this came from.
Credits
Director:
- Stephen Sommers
Cast:
- Channing Tatum
- Marlon Wayans
- Dennis Quaid
- Byung Hun Lee
- Sienna Miller
- Rachel Nichols
- Ray Park
- Said Taghmaoui
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agba
- Christopher Eccleston
Writers:
- Michael B. Gordon
- Stephen Sommers
- Stuart Beattie
- David Elliot
- Paul Lovett
Producers:
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
- Brian Goldner
- Bob Ducsay
