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G.I. Joe: Retaliation

  • 20132013
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 50m
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Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Lee Byung-hun, Elodie Yung, Channing Tatum, and Adrianne Palicki in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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.
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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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
183K
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    • Jon M. Chu
    • Rhett Reese
    • Paul Wernick
  • Stars
    • Dwayne Johnson
    • Channing Tatum
    • Adrianne Palicki
    • Jon M. Chu
    • Rhett Reese
    • Paul Wernick
  • Stars
    • Dwayne Johnson
    • Channing Tatum
    • Adrianne Palicki
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    • 346User reviews
    • 366Critic reviews
    • 41Metascore
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    Ray Stevenson in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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    Dwayne Johnson, D.J. Cotrona, and Channing Tatum in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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    Lee Byung-hun and Luke Bracey in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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    Dwayne Johnson
    Dwayne Johnson
    • Roadblock
    Channing Tatum
    Channing Tatum
    • Duke
    Adrianne Palicki
    Adrianne Palicki
    • Jaye
    Lee Byung-hun
    Lee Byung-hun
    • Storm Shadow
    Jonathan Pryce
    Jonathan Pryce
    • President
    Elodie Yung
    Elodie Yung
    • Jinx
    Ray Stevenson
    Ray Stevenson
    • Firefly
    D.J. Cotrona
    D.J. Cotrona
    • Flint
    Ray Park
    Ray Park
    • Snake Eyes
    Luke Bracey
    Luke Bracey
    • Cobra Commander
    Walton Goggins
    Walton Goggins
    • Warden Nigel James
    Arnold Vosloo
    Arnold Vosloo
    • Zartan
    Joseph Mazzello
    Joseph Mazzello
    • Mouse
    • (as Joe Mazzello)
    Nick Erickson
    • President Picture Double
    RZA
    RZA
    • Blind Master
    Naim Alherimi
    Naim Alherimi
    • Pakistani President
    Ravi Naidu
    Ravi Naidu
    • Chief Advisor
    Matt Gerald
    Matt Gerald
    • Havoc
      • Jon M. Chu
      • Rhett Reese
      • Paul Wernick
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      To prepare for his role as Firefly, Ray Stevenson read the G.I. Joe comics. He became a fan of his character, even putting in his own money so that the costume designers would make a mask to go with the costume.
    • Goofs
      When Snake Eyes is taken into the prison, he's told that they descend so far that they are no longer in Germany, but are in international territory. Most conventions hold that a country's claim extends down to the center of the Earth, and up into space. (US Property Law holds the same convention with regard to a persons real property)
    • Quotes

      Roadblock: In the immortal words of Jay-Z: "Whatever deity may guide my life, dear lord don't let me die tonight. But if I shall before I wake, I'd accept my fate."

    • Crazy credits
      Part of the closing credits are a montage of scenes from the film.
    • Alternate versions
      The extended cut has the following additional material and changes:
      • Extended prologue: Mouse and Flint have a contest where whoever can get a hand grenade out from the water barrel with his mouth is the winner. Mouse eventually wins and Flint makes fun of him. Roadblock is annoyed by that and punishes Flint by pushing his head into the barrel again. Duke shows up and makes fun of Roadblock's lecture. While pushing Flint's head again into the barrel, he and Roadblock grin at each other.
      • The Blind Master / Jinx / Snake Eyes sequence introduced midway in the theatrical version is now moved to the beginning and its introduction is much more slower, clearer minus the narration. As Jinx prepares to fight Snake Eyes, she is told that to prove worthy of joining the Joes, Snake Eyes must not get a single hair of hers. The fight is longer but Snake eventually wins. She leaves frustrated. The Blind Master gives the indestructible sword to him, telling him to stop Cobra.
      • There are more killings shown by the Joes in the base raid and more explicit.
      • An additional line by Duke after he lost the shooting contest to Roadblock, looking at his rifle: "Yup, as long as I can bring this."
      • The president's son ambushes Zartan with a toy gun. He asks Havoc if he wasn't supposed to protect his father but Zartan instead tells him to clean the chocolate stash in his mother's bedroom. Zartan tells Havoc to "take out his fat ass next time". This scene is also a cross-promotion for Nerf, as the president's son is wielding a Nerf N-Strike Elite Retaliator.
      • Extra line by Zartan telling the real president that he's brought back some interns.
      • The night helicopter attack is slightly longer.
      • The assault on the underground prison by Storm Shadow and Firefly is slightly more graphic. Instead of the original cut, Snake Eyes is surprised by Jinx's appearance who wants to help him, saying she knows where Storm Shadow is likely to go to heal his wounds. He hands her the fighting sticks.
      • There's a longer joke of Roadblock and his street friend on his pants.
      • Storm Shadow's healing is now shown as one whole sequence.
      • Instead of agreeing in the original version, Jaye and Flint are against Roadblock's idea of waiting and killing Zartan in the alley. They want him alive to be brought to Colton.
      • Additional graphic shots of Roadblock and Firefly's alley fight.
      • As Jaye stitches Roadblock's shoulder, Flint, frustrated comes in and blames Roadblock for not following his own lectures. Frustrated, Roadblock leaves the room to clean the weapons while he sits down. Jaye asks Flint to help her with the dress. There's also a longer reflection of Jaye on the TV screen. Roadblock then comes in again and tells them to help clean the weapons.
      • During the collage of the freedom summit, Cobra and his crew leave the boat to meet a small army while Zartan holds his speech.
      • In the catacomb assault, Zartan now grabs the case instead of Firefly, thus the order from Cobra has changed with a shot of Firefly with the case removed. Later when he gets the case back, Cobra asks him of the status of the satellites.
      • Jinx leads the other presidents through the catacombs while killing a few more Cobra soldiers. She gets pressured into a corner before Snake Eyes comes in for the assist. Meanwhile, Storm Shadow follows Zartan who hides with a soldier. As he enters the room, he hears Zartan's voice saying he never expected him to become a G.I Joe.
      • Storm Shadow's fight with the red ninja is longer. Zartan tries to shoot him a few times but misses. Noticing that both fighters buried under the boxes, Zartan tries to shoot him at gunpoint, but instead gets himself at the Shadow's sword point. Then, an explosive firefly lands on the blade and explodes, before Firefly enters the room and retrieves the case.
      • More killing of Zartan's guards while rescuing the real President by Colton and Jaye.
      • There are extra shots of Roadblock's wielding of the assault gun and the final fight with Firefly.
      • Lastly, Jinx wants to return the sword to Snake Eyes but is signaled to keep it, having proving her worth.
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    6/10
    I so wanted to like it, but I couldn't
    The first G.I. Joe film was a surprise. I had expected to hate it or at least just enjoy it as a no brainer, but it wasn't so at all. I really liked the special effects, the villains, the story. The reason why I had made the effort of watching it was the appearance of Retaliation, which had really nice trailers.

    So, after much waiting, I was able to watch G.I. Joe Retaliation... and I found it lacking in every respect. The jokes lamer, the effects cheaper, the story linear and impossible and the script bad, the acting worse, the fighting stupid. My conclusion: a failure that not even the presence of Ray Stevenson could not save. Arnold Vosloo practically did not act in this film, while some of the characters were killed outright for no other reason that I can see except that their actors didn't want to play this film.

    Don't watch this. It's a waste of time.
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    • Didn't this all used to be called Action Force?
    • What happened to Destro in the movie? Wasn't he along with Storm Shadow and Cobra Commander in the tubes? And why did Cobra Commander not rescue him?
    • Wouldn't all these nuclear warheads exploding cover the world in radiation?

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    • Release date
      • March 28, 2013 (United States)
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    • Filming locations
      • Fort Pike, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
      • Skydance Media
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