2013 · action · sci-fi · adventure
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Directed by Jon M. Chu1h 50m2013
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
Our read: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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