G.I. Joe: Retaliation - Not pleased

I am a fan of the original cartoon. The first one is OK for a movie adaptation to me, beside they TOTALLY RUINED Baroness' character.

She's my favorite cartoon female villain; in the cartoon she is cunning, charming, and ruthless.She is both a brave fighter and a master of disguise. In the movie she was portrayed as some poor victim of some nanomites and lover of Duke.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Glad the 2nd one didn't have her. It's more like a reboot rather than a sequel, most of the casts were changed. While I don't like some characters' portrayal in the first one, I still think they should have kept General Hawk and Scarlett.

Duke died around 15 mins after the movie started. Not much plots were connected beside Zartan became the president. The style off the film also changed, beside the super orbital strike weapon Zeus, there is not much super weapons and super technology like in the first one. Roadblock is cool, Jaye is portrayed well. Flint is OK, and Bruce Wills is Bruce Wills.

The first few battles are cool. Zartan's ambush, Firefly came to the rescue and the best of all, Snake Eyes and Jinx carried Storm Shadow and fight those red ninjas on Himalayas. That scene was really great to watch.

At that point, I thought "WOW this movie really has improved quite a lot." Cobra Commander never mentioned he was Baroness' brother or his relationship with Duke in this movie. Other than that he had a better mask, better suit and better voice than last one. Sadly, Dr. Mindbender didn't show up in this one, either.

I don't get why didn't they rescue Destro, maybe simply because the story writers didn't want Baroness to be involved? But shouldn't they at least carry him away? The next part of the story didn't make too much sense.

I don't remember Jaye was ever a master of disguise like Baroness and Zarana, it's OK to let her to use her beauty kidnap the poker guy, but infiltrate to dance with the President without disguise when the Joes were viewed as enemies? Isn't it stupid?

Also I think it's totally unnecessary, after they suspected he was an impostor, it's easy to figure out the impostor was the master of disguise, Zartan. Just like Storm Shadow figured out easily that Zartan was the one who killed his master after being captured.

Well the climax, the final battle is just HORRIBLE. If it was even decent the movie would certainly be better than the first one. I don't want to talk much about the dialog between the leaders, or shoot the nuclear missiles then abort them all to make it nuclear free.

The battle between the Joes and Cobra was too imbalanced. The Joes smashed the nameless minions easily, and we found out Cobra only had Commander , Zartan and Firefly, only Firefly is a good fighter, and the Joes? Roadblock, Bruce Wills, Jaye, Jinx, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow(defected) and Flint.

I was worried about this when I saw the cast list, and it happened. Couldn't they let Zarana, some Dreadnoks, the twins or Scrap-Iron in the movies? So it was one sided victory overall, only Roadblock and Firefly put up a good fight.

I don't understand why did Cobra Commander gave the device to Firefly, he got a helicopter to rescue him and Firefly only had a boat.

Firefly is the only cool villain in this movie, and it's quite sad, not sure why didn't he use his firefly bombs in the beginning.

Overall the movie started strongly, but dropped down later, especially in the climax, I will give it 6-6.5/10.