GI JOE RETALIATION ("RETALIATION IS ON YOU!")

Cast: The Rock, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis.

Director: John M Chu.

After making us wait for so long the Joes are back; this time with an extra member in particular, Roadblock (The Rock).

The Cobra Commander and Destro are locked up in a “high security” prison. Zartan is trying to bring them out (impersonating the President) with the help of Storm Shadow and Firefly. Snake eyes is trying to bring Storm Shadow back to the blind master for punishment. After a dramatic turn of events it’s upto Roadblock along with Lady Jaye, Flint, Snake eyes and General Joe Colton( Bruce Willis) to prevent the Cobras from executing their master plan.

Talking about the Cobras’ “master plan”, the thing that the film lacks is a master script, it does not have a script at all rather; nothing atleast that you can call a script. Things keep happening, bullets keep getting fired, bombs explode and you sit there wondering if it’s a movie or a montage of action sequences taken from you tube.

Logic goes for a toss considering the free run that the GI Joes and the Cobras have across the globe. May be the scriptwriters forgot that the only people safeguarding the American citizens are not just the Joes, there are a few departments called the police, the military etc. There are a lot of such instances all the way through. Everything just happens!

Channing Tatum is in the movie just for the sake of it and nothing more and I have no idea why The Rock and Bruce Willis signed up for this project that was not going to be beneficial for them performance wise or otherwise. The last thing that you can look for in the film is feel; it’s more like a bunch of robots fighting against each other.

The only saving face element in the film is the nice visual effects along with a few action scenes but it’s highly doubtful if that is going to satisfy even the GI Joe fans.

Iam giving a 2/5 for GI Joe Retaliation. Take a nap after the movie starts, wake up towards the end and still you can figure out the plot.

IMDB Rating - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1583421/?ref_=sr_1

Rating Scale (Out of 5)

Less than 2                   -           Unwatchable.

2 to 2.25                      -           Below average.

2.5 to 2.75                   -           Average.

3 to 3.25                      -           Good.

3.5 to 3.75                   -           Really Good.

      

4 to 4.25                      -           Great.

4.5 and above               -           Extraordinary.