
(Among the fallen is the previous film’s hero, Duke, played by Channing Tatum.) Only three survive: Roadblock (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), and Flint (D.J. While disarming a Pakistani nuclear facility, the G.I. The plot itself makes the reboot explicit. Joe: Retaliation - sometimes for the better but often for the worse. There’s been a bit of rethinking and re-tinkering and rebooting with the sequel, G.I. No Transformers-ian bloat or Pirates of the Caribbean–esque tedium just pure, goofy, stoopid fun. In fact, if you’d told me the first film was the result of some time warp in which my 11-year-old self accidentally gained access to a CGI workstation, I might have even believed it. At the time, The Rise of Cobra seemed like the kind of elaborate, ridiculous, and shallow entertainment that a child playing with his action figures might have dreamt up, and for a couple of hours, I was that child. Joe movie, which, despite being widely loathed, was just enough of a hit that now they’ve made another one.

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