cherbo

Maybe there's a reason that they decided to skip critics screening, deciding, wisely i might add, that they'd vote unanimously that this film is xi bei jia lat. i.e. really damnably bad.

I've enjoyed stephen sommers movies in the past - the mummy series and the scorpion king, but g.i joe suffers from bad pacing, really crummy casting and stupendously sub standard computer graphics. The lead especially is just gut wrenchingly wooden and i'm dumbfounded at the casting of marlon wayans. Just looking at wayans with the redhead, made me think of wayans in the white chicks. oh yeah! she looks like the wayans brother. well done casting....

This movie would satisfy the young average movie goer, but if you're looking for a grittier gi joe, which from the recent trends of comic- movie adaptations was what i expected, this isn't it. For the kids, it'll probably be a blast.

Not a lot of people feel this, but the way films are made have changed since the beginning of the millennium. From blocking, cinematography, film stock, writing, pacing, everything is different. So it's really refreshing to watch michael caine do his thing in this oliver stone horrorfest. What might have been over the top campy shtick in the 80s becomes infinitely watchable.

I agree about the similarities to the shining but doesn't quite match up. The comments about the burning car i don't agree with. It's inserted to show michael caine getting unhinged the more he suspects he's got a pet killer hand out there.

A great movie to check out. Really fun.