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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 159
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 114

Though arguably superior to its predecessor, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is overwhelmed by its nonstop action and too nonsensical and vapid to leave a lasting impression.

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 25

Though arguably superior to its predecessor, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is overwhelmed by its nonstop action and too nonsensical and vapid to leave a lasting impression.

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In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. -- (C) Paramount

Jul 30, 2013

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The filmmakers appear to have handed a dozen or so G.I. Joe dolls to a 9-year-old, watched him play for 110 minutes, and then shot a scene-for-scene remake.

March 29, 2013 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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What a blast G.I. Joe: Retaliation is! And then another blast, and another, in a series of concussive jolts that shred any conventional sense of story as thoroughly as anything since the last Michael Bay film.

March 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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When it comes to big and loud, this is the movie to beat for at least this week; what makes it entertaining is its unabashed wallow in these qualities ...

March 29, 2013 Full Review Source: MSN Movies
MSN Movies
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Plays like a tiresomely extended evening of channel surfing.

March 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
Time Out New York
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No go, "Joe."

March 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Detroit News
Detroit News
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Retaliation is less a sequel than an antidote to the calcified mound of crap that ostensibly inspired it.

March 29, 2013 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
TIME Magazine
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Bruce Willis, The Rock, explosions, comedy and action help this popcorn sequel rise above its more Sci-Fi predecessor, but even fans caught up in the action will occasionally find this live action film to be just a bit too cartoonish.

August 7, 2013 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

A very flawed film, but it's superior to the first installment in every way.

August 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

[Jon M.] Chu is a stylish director, and it's fun to watch him blow things up. He also paces the material furiously. For awhile, this strategy works. But, as with most movies that don't have any substance, the pomposity and spectacle grow tiresome.

July 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

I'd be hard-pressed to call any of it 'exciting'; mostly the film just chugs along, steadily going from one plot point to the next, neither engaging us nor boring us.

July 12, 2013 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
EricDSnider.com

This action-packed drama is as bland and forgettable as its predecessor.

June 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Big Hollywood
Big Hollywood

It's pretty bad. You don't need me to tell you that.

June 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Deadspin
Deadspin

Has a great deal more grace and goodwill than its predecessor. It moves well, offers up the occasional surprise, and never takes itself too seriously.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Dumb, hyperkinetic fun.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

I was prepared for the expected amount of flag-waving nonsense in this film, but one sequence with a Cobra member posing as the President of the United States is so offensive, it seems like it was an outtake from Team America: World Police.

April 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Scene-Stealers.com
Scene-Stealers.com

Dizzyingly entertaining celebration of fireballs, wire-assisted martial arts and high-calibre firepower has more grace and poise than Die Hard 5...will surely make up for those disappointed with the so-so 2009 film.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW

While it might be the height of critical cliché (and analytically wrong) to call G.I. Joe: Retaliation "a real American Zero," if the combat boot fits...

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Racket
Film Racket

Explosions and action figures.

April 11, 2013 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

This film had no use of the 3D.

April 10, 2013 Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum
Entertainment Spectrum

Retaliation isn't hatefully dumb - it's entertainingly dumb. But even after the umpteen millions it cost to make, it never comes close to capturing the imagination like three 3/4" action figures can.

April 10, 2013 Full Review Source: SFX Magazine
SFX Magazine

Marries the steroidal firepower of the US armed forces with the narrative sense and technical elegance of a twelve year old playing with his action figures.

April 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Moviedex
Moviedex

Tea Party paranoia about Obama's alien identity and fascist agenda apparently motivated this disappointing sequel, which pits the Joes against an impostor U.S. president (Jonathan Pryce) working for the evil forces of Cobra.

April 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

As to be expected, Johnson actually imbues his character with some humanity, but in the cacophony that is this movie, this doesn't really amount to much.

April 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

Routine action adventure but that mountainside battle is one for the record books.

April 4, 2013 Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com
jackiekcooper.com

The plot is just a thin outline providing opportunities for lots of shootouts, explosions, chases, kung-fu fighting and massive destruction (including the destruction of a major world city). But that is what you buy your ticket to see, after all.

April 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis provide performances that should be in the hall of shame under the category "Best example of going through the motions for a paycheck."


April 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly
Atlantic City Weekly

Audience Reviews for G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Originally intended to be released in the summer of 2012, G.I. Joe: Retaliation was pulled back because, presumably, they wanted to convert it to 3D, but many suspected it was to add more time for star Channing Tatum after his box-office domination that year. Well, wrong on both accounts, because maybe it was merely kicked back because, get this, it's not terribly good. I had the lowest possible expectations for the 2009 G.I. Joe movie but came away having a fun time; it was the right kind of enjoyably stupid. Well now it's just stupid. Cobra has kidnapped the president, inserted a doppelganger, and now wants to rule the world that to an evil satellite that drops giant metal rods into space as weapons. Why are these rods not part of the Earth's orbit after release? There are all sorts of gadgets here that make no sense but somebody thought might sell some toys. The central storyline is almost a knockoff of Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, a small group of Joes having to clear their names. Then because that isn't enough material to work with, there's a mini-movie about ninja warriors avenging their fallen master in the mountains, and of all people, the RZA is supplying lengthy exposition. The action sequences are absurd without having enough style to excuse the absurdity. Everyone is a superhuman but also incompetent when the plot demands it (ninjas can shoot flying knives but not a big person jumping off a wall?). Adding The Rock is always a bonus in my book; the man is charisma personified. But the storyline of Retaliation is so sloppy, the villains so lame, and the movie lacks the high-spirited imagination to keep the stupid at bay. I was never a G.I. Joe kid so maybe those with nostalgia will be more charitable than I am, but G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a poorly executed next step for a once-budding franchise.

Nate's Grade: C
October 3, 2013
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Nate Zoebl

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Compared to the first movie, 'G.I. Joe : Retaliation' wasn't meet everybody's expectation of a better sequel.. The death of Duke character at the beginning of the movie, and then the change of the leader into Dwayne Johnson wasn't as smooth as they predicted.. Truthfully, I must say that the scene stealer show is (and still from the the first movie) Byung-hun Lee as Storm Shadow and D.J. Cotrona who made a quite scene stealer performance as Flint.. Overall, I wasn't hope for another sequel of this movie but if Hasbro still want some profit maybe they can make at least another movie of this movie..
March 23, 2012
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