G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Summer must be here. We get tanks, repelling soldiers, ninjas fighting while rock climbing, Bruce Willis and the Rock, explosions galore. Of course, the fact that it is still April puts this film in the not-quite-good-enough category for a summer blockbuster. But for what it is, well done. What it is? B+ action drama. Not really a comedy, but we know we must check our belief of the impossible at the door. But here is the surprising part. The bad guys (Cobra) have a really unique idea for gaining control of the world. They have recognized that there are too many nuclear weapons out there and develop a plan for removing nuclear weapons. Without spoiling the film, I found it quite entertaining. And while I am more than willing to embrace the absurd, I do expect the evil mastermind who initiates such a plot to be consistently mastermind-like. In this case, we have a masterful nuclear dis-armament plan followed by a system that allows the new global domination weapon to be destroyed (not disabled, not set on standby, but destroyed) by pushing a large red button on a remote control suitcase (in fact, the largest red button on the whole device). Mastermind status of Cobra commander has been reset to "dolt"...
3 stars (out of 5)