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Rating: 4/5
Review: "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra DVD review"
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is filled with amazing special effects and practically non-stop action. Since it has action from the start to the finish, you cannot expect other things to be injected into this mindless entertaining movie other than special effects. Some of the action sets are stunning yet very cartoon. I enjoyed Stephen Sommers' movies including the recent Van Helsing. His movies though lacked of a proper story line are at least interesting to look at.
The story: There is not much of a story, if you want a story, it is a race between the good and the bad. Duke and his friend,Ripcord join the mysterious G.I. Joe. Yes, there are some lame lines and some lame jokes made by Marlon Wayans, a guy who cannot stop cracking jokes even if there are some serious things going on. As you have seen in the trailers, this is practically filled with non-stop cartoon special effects, action and gadgets and cleavage too. This will not go well with critic. Critics hate movies like this.
Overall: As stated, it is the last of this year's summer blockbuster, enjoy it. This is one of the movies you either like or hate it. I like its over-the-top action, with things flying and exploding even this year Transformers 2 could not do. You want great fun, catch this. Bring on the sequel.
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DVD special features-Rating: 0/5
What the hell! The region 3 DVD does not include any featurette. It only has a commentary which I don't bother listening to. There are no trailers too. The USA edition has 2-disc DVD which includes around 1 hour of bonus features. And the region 3 gets nothing.

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