Review – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

I watched this movie on Thanksgiving, which turned out to be appropriate for a couple of reasons. First, I was thankful I wasn’t in a theater next door to this at a multiplex. Even in a world full of noisy movies, this one stood out. Occasionally plot developments briefly intrude, but for the most part this is just one elaborate battle sequence after another, a relentless parade of action movie clichés. I was also thankful that I’d been a Joe fan when I was a kid, because it helped me get the inside jokes that were the cleverest this picture ever got. Oh, and I was thankful when it ended. Mildly amusing