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MOVIE REVIEWS G.I. JOE

In the end, G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra got just the kind of scathing reviews that Paramount executives had expected. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times suggested that the execs who opted not to show the movie to critics were just being "pragmatists and must have smelled the stench long ago, then again ... this pricey, juiceless pulp could never have been killed by critics, simply because it was already dead." Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News commented that the movie enters "the annals of inane summer would-be blockbusters that make your brain bleed." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times remarked dourly, "It is sure to be enjoyed by those whose movie appreciation is defined by the ability to discern that moving pictures and sound are being employed to depict violence." But David Hiltbrand in the Philadelphia Inquirer suggested that the movie succeeded in its goal. " G.I. Joe 's mission," he wrote, "is to provide moviegoers with bang for their buck. And in this it succeeds. ... OK, it's seriously deficient in plot or acting. But in this genre, those two ingredients are as superfluous as canoes in a desert."

10/08/2009