G.I Joe: Retaliation Trailer – Come for the Ninjas, not for the plot

I hated the first G.I Joe movie. I hated everything from the first trailer on Superbowl Sunday, to the end credits of the film. I hate the suits, I hated most of the actors, and I hated the completely preposterous plot. Well this is the second go around, and it seems things are going in a different direction. New director; gone is Stephen Sommers, and in is John Chu who has directed two “Step Up” films and the Justin Bieber documentary/3D concert film “Never Say Never”- already I am cringing. The main star does not seem to be Channing Tatum, instead they placed an actor who actually has some charisma on camera, and that is action star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

So it seems they are going for the obligatory sequel procedure, that now everything has to be super big, and super important. Instead of destroying the Eiffel Tower like they did in the first film; in what I called a “Gatorade” missile: this time, they have taken over the United States Government, with awesome looking Cobra flags on it. Cobra Commander: who was criminally underused, and whose story arc made absolutely no sense was played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and he is not listed as being a member of the cast. Never the less, they got rid of that stupid plastic mask, and placed the metal shield that he should have in the first place.

Thinking back to the first film, I forced myself to remove images from my mind so they would not give me nightmares, the scenes I do remember fondly, are the scenes with Ninjas Snake Eyes, and Storm Shadow. They both are returning, and it seems there will be ore Ninja action in this film, than the previous one. Well at least they got that going for them, because the Bruce Willis cameo and completely lame joke, almost made me vomit.