Channing Tatum
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Aug 7, 2009 · A 2009 action adventure sci-fi thriller based on the G.I. Joe toy line and cartoon. See the cast, crew, plot, reviews, trivia, awards, videos and more on IMDb.
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- Stephen Sommers
- 2009-08-07
A 2009 action film based on the G.I. Joe toy line, directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, and Sienna Miller. The plot involves a nanotech weapon that can destroy any non-organic material and a global conspiracy led by a disfigured villain named Destro.
Aug 7, 2009 · A 2009 action movie based on the Hasbro toy franchise, starring Channing Tatum, Dennis Quaid, and Christopher Eccleston. Critics and audiences panned the film for its silly script, inconsistent effects, and mediocre performances.
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- Stephen Sommers
- PG-13
- Channing Tatum
An elite military unit called G.I. Joe fights an evil organization led by a weapons dealer who plans to use nanotechnology to destroy the world. Read the full plot summary, cast and crew, trivia, and user reviews of this 2009 action movie.
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In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen has created a nanotechnologycapable of destroying an entire city. He sells four nanomite warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke and Ripcord are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness and several Cobra Vipers along with their Razor gun...
"Technically, G.I. Joe does not exist, but if it did, it'd be comprised of the top men and women from the top military units in the world, the alpha dogs. When all else fails, we don't." --General Hawk. "That redhead is really starting to piss me off!" --Baroness Asking where Snake Eyes is from: Duke: "What about you?" Scarlett: "He doesn't speak."...
Real World References
1. The interior of Destro's submarine was based on a Handley Page Jetsream plane. 2. The active nanites are colored green to suggest mold decomposing whatever it grows on. 3. When given a painkiller on the G.I. Joe transport after Ripcord and Duke's unit is ambushed, Ripcord jokes that Duke was "Government Issued", which is what the G.I. stands for. 4. Destro is the head of M.A.R.S., which stands for "Military Armaments Research Syndicate;" it is also a reference to Mars, the Roman god of war.
Continuity Errors
1. When Scarlett uses the chameleon suit, her hands are bare. However, when she activates its cloaking feature, her hands disappear as well. 2. When Snake Eyes has a flashback to the first time he and Storm Shadow met and fought in the dojo, Storm Shadow hits the burners on the stove, and the burners turn on as Snake Eyes runs on them. However, in the next shot, all of the burners are off.
The development of a live-action feature film goes back to the height of G.I. Joe's popularity back in the 1980s. For many reasons, the project went into what is called "development hell," a term referring to the difficulties of getting a planned feature film into actual production. Other possible reasons may be the toyline's popularity started to ...
In the last quarter of 2007, Sienna Miller was the first actor to be confirmed for a role in the movie. Not long after, Ray Park was announced for the role of Snake Eyes. Before the year was over, the Hollywood Reporter released to press three more actors, Rachel Nichols, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Said Taghmaoui as Scarlett, Heavy Duty and Break...
For toys, a series of action figures based on the actors and vehicles as they are seen in the movie are guaranteed for sure. Other possible tie-ins are comicbooks, movie novelizations and product placements. Electronic Arts recently acquired the license to produce games based on Hasbro's properties from rival publisher Activision, the video game ve...
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was poorly received overall by critics. As of June 13, 2021, the film has a score of 34% fresh on the reviewer aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes with 170 reviews. The film fared slightly better with audiences, but is still only about 50% fresh. The site's Critics' Consensus feature states that "While fans of the Hasbro toy...
The action scenes in "Paris" were actually filmed in the town Dejvice, Prague, Czech Republic. Filmmakers built shops with flowers, changed school names and parked mostly old French-manufactured ca...112 cars were destroyed during filming.According to Stephen Sommers on the DVD commentary, one of the studio's executives disliked the idea of Snake Eyeswearing a mask, and tried to get him to remove it.Lorenzo di Bonaventura originally envisioned Mark Wahlberg for the role of Duke.A summary of the 2009 live-action film based on the G.I. Joe toy line and cartoon. Learn about the plot, characters, vehicles, weapons, and references of the movie.
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009) Official Trailer - Channing Tatum Movie HD. Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers. 1.69M subscribers. 6.3K. 1.2M views 10 years ago. Subscribe to CLASSIC...
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Jan 25, 2011 · Watch the official trailer of the 2009 action movie based on the G.I. Joe franchise. See the team of elite soldiers fight against the Cobra organization and their leader Destro.
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