Warning:  GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra isn’t a movie about the rising cost of health insurance & cobra or Obama’s new healthcare plan!   We went to see the movie this weekend and I have to say that I’m seriously disappointed.    Perhaps a movie about the rising cost of health insurance would have made a better movie but there were so many things wrong with this movie:

WARNING  SPOILERS AHEAD!

First, the acting was HORRIBLE!   If it weren’t for that cute red head, I would have lost total interest in the movie.  Second, the movie has so many pointless flashbacks that leave you asking more questions than answers!   Example, there is an attempt to give some back story to the conflict between snake eyes and storm but it doesn’t answer any thing.  Why was snake eyes in Japan as a kid to begin with?  Why was he scrounging around for food?   What the hell?

Third, while it’s expected to suspend disbelief and accept some of the sci-fi components to the film, basic physics shouldn’t be thrown out the window.   There is a scene where floating ice is blown up, WHY DOES IT SINK?    Picture an ocean with icebergs, the ice FLOATS right?   Well in GI JOE, ice sinks to the bottom of the ocean for no apparent reason.  Speaking of oceans, there are underwater scenes where immense pressure fluctuations are no big deal.   I guess they skipped the scene where everyone gets the bends.  There’s also a scene where RIP is flying an airplane at Mach 6 making turns that would crush body organs and deplete the brain of any and all blood & oxygen but it’s no big deal to GI Joe RIP.

There are a ton of other problems with the movie, characters, plot and cohesiveness to the movie that I give it a huge thumbs down.

The best part of the movie were the previews of other movies that were more interesting to watch like Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant.