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G.I. Joe: Retaliation

G.I. Joe: Retaliation
G.I. Joe: Retaliation Rating: 49 out of 100 based on 43 reviews.
The film will feature the G.I. Joe Team coming into a conflict with Zartan, Storm Shadow and Firefly, all serving under the newly released Cobra Commander. Zartan (who is still impersonating the President of the United States) frames all G.I. Joe operatives as traitors to the United States, exterminating most of them and leaving a small group of survivors. Zartan and the Commander now have all the world leaders under Cobra's control, with their advanced warheads aimed at innocent populaces around the world. Badly beaten, outnumbered and outgunned, the Joes make a desperate plan to overthrow Cobra Commander and take back the world, with their secret black operation called the "Second American Revolution", which involves the return of the original G.I. Joe General Joseph Colton.
Cast
Ray Park

Snake Eyes
Byung-hun Lee

Storm Shadow
Walton Goggins

Warden Nigel James
RZA

Blind Master
Luke Bracey

Cobra Commander
Nick Erickson

President Picture Double
Production
Director:Jon M. Chu
Producer:David Ellison (executive producer)
Herb Gains (executive producer)
Erik Howsam (executive producer)
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (producer)
Brian Goldner (producer)
Linda Pianigiani (associate producer)
Gary Barber (executive producer)
Roger Birnbaum (executive producer)
Dana Goldberg (executive producer)
Paul Schwake (executive producer)
Stephen Sommers (executive producer)
Writer:Rhett Reese (written by) &)
Paul Wernick (written by)
Reviews for G.I. Joe: Retaliation
EmanuelLevy.Com
A follow-up to the awful “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” which was poorly directed by Stephen (“Van Helsing”) Sommers, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is at once a sequel and a reboot of the tale, based on the Hasbro popular toys.
Entertainment Weekly
As befits an elite commando squad loosely inspired by a 49-year-old series of Hasbro toy soldiers, the G.I. Joes in G.I. Joe: Retaliation are a team of government combat renegades so wholesome and upstanding that they make the A-Team look like unsavory...
Read review12 Apr 2013
Mania.com
I can’t call G.I. Joe: Retaliation a good movie – they don’t come much more messy and incoherent – but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t put a smile on my face. After the flat-out disaster of the first film, the sequel’s efforts to actually act like...
Read review29 Mar 2013
Crave Online
I watched G.I. Joe: Retaliation from beginning to end, all the way through to the last seconds of the closing credits, and I still don’t feel like I’m getting the whole story.
Read review27 Mar 2013
RedEye
At least once as kids, we all gave an action figure's head the ol' 360-degree spin. Watching the confusing 3-D sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," you know how that toy felt.
Read review27 Mar 2013
Articles
"Harder, more raw, really human-based." Those were the targets set by John Chu for his Dwayne Johnson-led GI Joe sequel - and you'll be able to find out if he's achieved them when GI Joe: Retaliation hits cinemas on March 27.
Sam Ashurst(totalfilm.com) - 2013-03-18
Having been shunted back from its original June 2012 release date by nearly a year, it had all gone a bit quiet on the G.I. Joe: Retaliation front. However, that’s all changed with the arrival of a new trailer.
George Wales(totalfilm.com) - 2012-11-03
With director Jon M. Chu‘s G.I. Joe: Retaliation opening June 29, Paramount has been amping up the promotional campaign this past week by debuting a ton of character posters and a great looking trailer. As a fan of the first film, I’ll admit the sequel l
Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub - 2012-04-24
Reviews for G.I. Joe: Retaliation
EmanuelLevy.Com
A follow-up to the awful “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” which was poorly directed by Stephen (“Van Helsing”) Sommers, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is at once a sequel and a reboot of the tale, based on the Hasbro popular toys.
Entertainment Weekly
As befits an elite commando squad loosely inspired by a 49-year-old series of Hasbro toy soldiers, the G.I. Joes in G.I. Joe: Retaliation are a team of government combat renegades so wholesome and upstanding that they make the A-Team look like unsavory...
Read review12 Apr 2013
Mania.com
I can’t call G.I. Joe: Retaliation a good movie – they don’t come much more messy and incoherent – but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t put a smile on my face. After the flat-out disaster of the first film, the sequel’s efforts to actually act like...
Read review29 Mar 2013
Crave Online
I watched G.I. Joe: Retaliation from beginning to end, all the way through to the last seconds of the closing credits, and I still don’t feel like I’m getting the whole story.
Read review27 Mar 2013
RedEye
At least once as kids, we all gave an action figure's head the ol' 360-degree spin. Watching the confusing 3-D sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," you know how that toy felt.
Read review27 Mar 2013
NJ.com
Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. If "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" had any more testosterone, it could grow hair.
Read review28 Mar 2013
CinemaBlend.com
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a stupid movie. Its plot is razor thin, the structure is utterly bizarre, and the exposition-laden dialogue regularly borders on the ridiculous. But when you realize that you just watched Dwayne Johnson ride on a tank that...
New York Post
The first one was a G.I joke, but the sequel “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” has enough hoo-ah to bring a satisfying blast of blockbustery summer to dreary March.
Read review27 Mar 2013
NOLA.com
It would be easy to wax derisively about the flaws of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," going on about how it all amounts to little more than so much big-budgeted, small-brained battlefield ludicrousness.
Read review28 Mar 2013
Shockya.com
A disjointed exercise in cosplay action theatrics that evidences the worst instincts of cobbled-together Hollywood overindulgence, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” by and large ditches the characters of its first big screen iteration, 2009′s ...
Read review27 Mar 2013
HollywoodChicago.com
“G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is the kind of dumb summer action blockbuster that works in the season when the kids aren’t in school and the movie theater is used as an excuse to get in the air conditioning as much as see anything approaching filmmaking.
Read review28 Mar 2013
stltoday.com
“Joe” is an honorable name, an homage to the average guy who raised the son of God as his own child. So good Lord, what did we do to deserve “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”?
Read review27 Mar 2013
filmjabber
You know you're in trouble when the best line of dialogue in an entire movie is a Jay Z quote. Then again, I don't know if I was in trouble. The new G.I. Joe: Retaliation is leaps and bounds better than its predecessor, with fast-paced action sequences...
Las Vegas Weekly
Maybe it’s not entirely fair to criticize a movie based on a cartoon for being cartoonish, but G.I. Joe: Retaliation is so ludicrous that it might not even convince a sugar-addled 10-year-old on a Saturday morning.
Read review27 Mar 2013
Mark Reviews Movies
This is not the first time we have seen a movie based on a collection of toys, but it's probably the first time the characters of such a movie have had the personality of their plastic counterparts. Like its predecessor, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is...
Read review28 Mar 2013
iHaveNet.com
Right in the middle of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," which is one sort of action movie, there's another, better one that lasts five or six very good minutes.
Aisle Seat
G.I. Joe: Retaliation was supposed to come out last summer. In an unprecedented move, Paramount Pictures abruptly pulled it a mere month before the scheduled June release date. There were three rumored reasons for this: 1.) to convert it into 3D; 2.)
Quickflix
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is easily the best film produced under the Hasbro banner, clearing the lowest cinematic bar perhaps ever known to humanity. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never director Jon M. Chu has been subbed in for the outgoing Stephen Sommers...
Read review25 Mar 2013
India Today
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is your typical mainstream Hollywood extravaganza in that sense. Just like the first film of the franchise, G.I. Joe: Rise Of The Cobra, it is also spectacularly brainless.
Read review29 Mar 2013
FirstShowing.net
Yo Joe...again! After Stephen Sommers' hokier-than-thou blockbuster G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - even that title shrieks hokey - there wasn't much they could have done to turn fans off of a live-action, G.I. Joe franchise more.
Read review28 Mar 2013
Richard Roeper.com
We’re so obviously looking at CGI trickery and stunt-work we just don’t care.
One Guy's Opinion
Gun fetishists should warm to this sequel to “The Rise of Cobra,” the dismal 2009 entry that initiated a would-be live-action franchise based on the long-lived Hasbro toy line that in turn spawned numerous comic books and animated TV series.
MovieCrypt.com
After yet another betrayal (sensing a pattern here), the covert operations team codenamed G.I. Joe is all but wiped out. Their enemy, COBRA, has launched a new plan to subvert freedom (check) and conquer the world (check). Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson)...
Read review31 Mar 2013
Atlantic City Weekly
I played with G.I. Joe action figures with my brothers as a kid but that, apparently, does not mean I am part of the target audience for the supremely silly movies made based on the action figures and later the animated TV series.
Read review3 Apr 2013
Maui Time
A year ago, I encountered a shelf of talking Dwayne Johnson G.I. Joe Retaliation dolls in Toys R Us. The Roadblock doll, named after Johnson's character and large enough to be considered a doll and not an action figure, uttered macho phrases from the...
Read review27 Mar 2013
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
What do you do when you have an epic scale action movie that didn’t necessarily thrill audiences like it was supposed to? Well, for starters, you could add Dwayne Johnson to the cast like Universal did for FAST FIVE.
Read review22 Mar 2013
Houston Press
If there anything that diminishes expectations for the movie you're about to watch like seeing "Hasbro" listed in the opening production company titles, I don't know what it is.
Read review29 Mar 2013
Screen Jabber
Lorenzo di Bonaventura, producer of this crappy sequel to the crappy 2009 hit, says: "It was important to find a director ... who would be able to take all the multi-layered characters and treat them with gravity."
The A.V. Club
Beyond general soullessness and stupidity—and all the other things associated with the phrase “in association with Hasbro”—the biggest problem with 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra is that it’s a lumbering beast, bogged down by too many characters...
Read review28 Mar 2013
ComingSoon.net
It's been three years since Stephen Sommers' "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" tried to bring the popular Hasbro action figure line and equally popular cartoons and comics to the big screen, and though only a few of the original cast members...
Slant Magazine
Nimbleness is next to godliness in the action films of Jon M. Chu. Those who can seamlessly glide, bend, and contort take control of time and space, creating their own gravitational pull.
Read review27 Mar 2013
Eric D. Snider
From what I recall of “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” – which is to say, from what I gather by reading my review of it – the 2009 franchise starter was silly but not terribly stupid, as if an enthusiastic group of 10-year-old boys had been given...
Flicks.co.nz
Brand-driven filmmaking is so pervasive in modern event cinema, it can be very difficult to set corporate agendas aside and simply enjoy a movie as an escapist piece of entertainment. Opening as it does with a giant 3D Hasbro logo...
TotalFilm.com
It’s a sequel few were demanding, but fewer still can ignore, especially with The Rock plastered all over the posters, dangling there like a dumbbell-loving carrot for fanboys who scoffed at Stephen Sommers’ ludicrous G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra.
Read review25 Mar 2013
canada.com
As disjointed and frenetic as a Saturday morning cartoon from Japan, GI Joe: Retaliation could very well bring out your inner child, in addition to your inner child’s attention deficit disorder.
Read review27 Mar 2013
SFX
This peculiarly unwanted and unwelcome sequel to 2009’s risible GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra has two things going for it: firstly, it’s better than its predecessor; and secondly it’s got The Rock in it.
Read review29 Mar 2013
Radio Times
This all-action, no-plot adventure picks up on the "to be continued" conclusion of GI Joe: the Rise of Cobra, and sees evil organisation Cobra frame the GI Joes for crimes they didn't commit and then sit back as the team is wiped out.
Empire
Fast Five was a good example of how applying The Rock to a tired series could bring it back to life. G.I. Joe, by opting for self-seriousness instead of knowing daftness, has squandered its secret weapon.
View London
Despite the combined best efforts of Dwyane Johnson and Jonathan Pryce, GI JOE: Retaliation (3D) is just no fun at all, thanks to poor direction, a shoddy script and a general lack of cohesion. GI Woeful.
Read review27 Mar 2013
Express.co.uk
Delayed for the purposes of a 3D conversion, the dull picture fails on the elementary level of mindless entertainment with only our own Jonathan Pryce livening things up as the US President who is taken hostage and replaced by a double from evil outfit...
Read review28 Mar 2013
Antagony & Ecstasy
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was the second-worst Hasbro-derived sci-fi/action movie of summer 2009, a very competitive title. I'd like to say that the franchise only had room to go up, but Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen would be sitting in the...
Read review30 Mar 2013
Digital Spy
Dwayne Johnson's introduction to the Fast & Furious films acted like a shot in the arm to the flagging car franchise, so producers of GI Joe: Retaliation were likely looking to pull the same trick twice by bringing him into their sequel.
Read review29 Mar 2013
WeLoveMovieClub.com
ภารกิจล่าสุดของหน่วย G.I. Joe ภายใต้การนำของ Duke จบลงด้วยการถูกหักหลัง โดยมีผู้รอดชีวิตมาได้คือ Roadblock, Jaye และ Flint ส่วน Snake Eyes ก็ตกเป็นแพะรับบาปของเหตุการณ์ครั้งนี้ ด้าน Storm Shadow ก็กำลังเริ่มต้นแผนการครั้งใหญ่ด้วยการช่วย...
Read review29 Mar 2013
Cast
Dwayne Johnson...Roadblock
Channing Tatum...Duke
D.J. Cotrona...Flint
Ray Park...Snake Eyes
Ray Stevenson...Firefly
Adrianne Palicki...Jaye
Arnold Vosloo...Zartan
Joseph Mazzello...Mouse
Jonathan Pryce...President
Byung-hun Lee...Storm Shadow
Walton Goggins...Warden Nigel James
Elodie Yung...Jinx
RZA...Blind Master
Luke Bracey...Cobra Commander
Nick Erickson...President Picture Double
Bruce Willis...General Joe Colton
Robert Catrini...Israeli Leader
Amin Joseph...Cobra Secret Sevice
Matt Gerald...Havoc
Ajay Mehta...Indian Leader
Raja Deka...Indian Expert
Nathan Takashige...Young Storm Shadow
Timothy Bruns...Honor Guard
W. Dante Ha...Kim Jong's Nephew
Benjamin Blankenship...Systems Officer
Dustan Costine...Cobra Trooper
Marcelo Tubert...French Leader
Ilia Volok...Russian Leader
Joe Chrest...Chief of Staff
Grant Goodman...First Son
Joanna Leeds...Intern
Jim Palmer...Clutch
Adam Vernier...Weapons Officer
Rey Hernandez...Cobra Secret Service
Tiffany Lonsdale...British Expert
Ravi Naidu...Chief Advisor
Dikran Tulaine...U.K. Leader
Geoffrey Howe...Cobra Trooper
Michael Howe...Cobra Trooper
Augustus Cho...North Korean Leader
Terry Dale Parks...Greeter
Naim Alherimi...Pakistani President
Douglas M. Griffin...Doctor
James Carville...James Carville
Ryan Hansen...Grunt
DeRay Davis...Stoop
Elana Justin...Intern
James Lew...Chinese Leader
Jun Hee Lee...North Korean Captain
Afemo Omilami...Chairman Joint Chief of Staff
Carrie Wong...Jhankri
Mikal Vega...Arch Angel Joe
Luis Echagarruga...Arch Angel Joe
Brelyn Plumbar...Roadblock's Daughter
Amaya Plumbar...Roadblock's Daughter
Erik Howsam...U.K. Staff
Han Soto...North Korean Guard (uncredited)
Eddie Hargitay...Tunnel Rat (uncredited)
Mike Mayhall...Prison Guard (uncredited)
Anthony A. Kung...North Korean Army Attaché (uncredited)
Elvin Yoshida...North Korean Carrier (uncredited)
Robert Remus...Sgt. Slaughter (uncredited)
Skipper Landry...French Courier (uncredited)
Evlin Lake...Beautiful Woman (uncredited)
Rene Fabre...Indian Football Carrier (uncredited)
Corinne Massiah...Roadblock's Daughter (uncredited)
Phil Austin...Cobra Trooper (uncredited)
Ladson Deyne...Cobra Commander (uncredited)
Stephen Livaudais...Army Sergeant Major (uncredited)
Trey Burvant...Air Force Commander (uncredited)
Jordon Michael Corbin...Pararescue Officer (uncredited)
Aaron V. Williamson...Chief Hannar (uncredited)
Fernandez Osvaldo...Insurgent (uncredited)
Tom Cain...German Prison Guard (uncredited)
Steve M. Hammond...Cobra Trooper Y (uncredited)
Phil Ortiz...Utility stunts (uncredited)
Mark Krutov...Russian Delegate (uncredited)
Skai Jackson...Roadblock's daughter (uncredited)
Sione Ma'umalanga...Insurgent (uncredited)
Rachel G. Whittle...Banquet Dancer (uncredited)
Jim Gunter...Prison Guard (uncredited)
Beau Brasseaux...Cobra Storm Trooper (uncredited)
John L. Armijo...Cobra Trooper (uncredited)
Michael AvMen...Soldier (uncredited)
Chip Carriere...German Prison Guard (uncredited)
Joseph Cintron...Cobra Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Edward J. Clare...Diplomat (uncredited)
Gene Kevin Hames Jr....Cobra Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Eric Hennig...German Prison Guard (uncredited)
WBBrown II...Cobra storm trooper (uncredited)
Laura Muse Jackson...Soldier (uncredited)
Cynthia LeBlanc...Banquet Guest (uncredited)
Elton LeBlanc...Dignatory (uncredited)
Ken Massey...COBRA Technician (uncredited)
Catherine Kim Poon...Japanese peasant (uncredited)
Carlos Retana Jr....Cobra trooper (uncredited)
Shawn M. Richardz...Bartender (uncredited)
Michael Patrick Rogers...Cobra Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Andrew Serpas...Cobra Trooper (uncredited)
Terry Lee Smith...Business Man (uncredited)
Brittney Alger...Bartender #1 (uncredited)
Nadi Berenger...Indian President's Assistant (uncredited)
Tom Bubrig...White House Staffer (uncredited)
Edward R. Cox...Banquet Guest / Dancer (uncredited)
Cody Dickinson...Violinist (uncredited)
John C. Klein...Gala Dignitary (uncredited)
Austin Naulty...Cobra (uncredited)
James Rawlings...Cobra Secret Service (uncredited)
Shawn Sanz...India President Security (uncredited)
Seth Sieunarine...Soldier (uncredited)
Nicholas Simmons...Cobra Secret Service (uncredited)
Stephen Daniel Wayne...Insurgent (uncredited)
Michael Wozniak...Lawyer (uncredited)
Annie May Gay...Red Ninja (uncredited)
Amy Le...Red Ninja (uncredited)
Michael O'Regan...Banquet Guest (uncredited)
Andre Allemand...Insurgent (uncredited)
Travis Wong...Cobra Ninja (uncredited)
James Ricker II...Technician (uncredited)
Kage Havok...Cobra Secret Service (uncredited)
Philippe Radelet...Banquet Guest / Waiter (uncredited)
Diezel Ramos...Soldier (uncredited)
Joe Rohaley...Cobra (uncredited)
Lauren Thomas...Bar Maid (uncredited)
Production
Director:Jon M. Chu
Producer:David Ellison (executive producer)
Herb Gains (executive producer)
Erik Howsam (executive producer)
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (producer)
Brian Goldner (producer)
Linda Pianigiani (associate producer)
Gary Barber (executive producer)
Roger Birnbaum (executive producer)
Dana Goldberg (executive producer)
Paul Schwake (executive producer)
Stephen Sommers (executive producer)
Writer:Rhett Reese (written by) &)
Paul Wernick (written by)
Composer:Henry Jackman
Cinematographer:Stephen F. Windon (director of photography)
Editing:Roger Barton
Jim May
Casting:Ronna Kress
Production Design:Andrew Menzies
Art Director:Luke Freeborn
Alan Hook
Sebastian Schroder
Tom Reta
Set Decorator:Cynthia La Jeunesse
Costume Design:Louise Mingenbach
Makeup:Martin Astles (special makeup effects designer)
Daina Daigle (hair stylist)
Marcos Gonzales (hair stylist)
James MacKinnon (personal makeup artist: Dwayne Johnson)
Suzy Mazzarese-Allison (hair department head)
Bart Mixon (special makeup effects artist)
Jessica Nelson (contact lens technician)
Perri Sorel (hair stylist)
Todd Tucker (special makeup effects artist)
Adam Gaeta (assistant hair stylist)
Lee Gren (graphic designer specialty tattoos: Tinsley Studio)
Stephen Kelley (makeup 3rd.)
Todd Kleitsch (makeup designer and department head)
Sandra Linn Koepper (key makeup artist)
Darryl Lucas (makeup artist)
Yolanda Mercadel (hair: second unit)
Gloria Belz (additional makeup artist)
Natasha Ladek (wig maker)
Rachel Solow (barber for Dwayne Johnson)
Erica Dewey (makeup artist)
Jack Lazzaro (makeup artist)
Rita Parillo (key hair)
Kent Richard (additional hair)
Kellie Robinson (makeup artist)
Annabelle MacNeal (additional makeup)
Kim Perrodin (makeup artist)
Crystal Ro (special makeup effects production coordinator)
Adam Walls (special makeup effects project coordinator)
Andrea Bowman (hair stylist)
Stacey Herbert (makeup artist)
Crystal Woodford (hair stylist)
Remi Savva (makeup artist)
Production Management:Ralph Bertelle (executive in charge of production)
Stewart Bethune (production manager: mountain unit)
Daren Hicks (production supervisor)
Sara Flamm (production supervisor)
Vincent Agostino (unit production manager: second unit)
Shuhei Okabayashi (production manager: Japan)
Richard Stirling (post-production supervisor)
Jason Pomerantz (production manager (IMAX Version)
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