With ‘Barbie’ the genre of toy film adaptations has reached its peak, as director Greta Gerwig’s satire is not only damn entertaining, but also incredibly successful. But Barbie is far from the first toy to hit theaters. After the great success of ‘Transformers’, the GI Joes were also expected to conquer the big screen in 2009, but this was only moderately successful with ‘GI Joe – Secret Mission Cobra’.
The sequel “GI Joe 2: The Reckoning” four years later would do a lot of things differently and do everything better – with unfortunately also manageable results. You’ll get an idea of this today, February 1, 2024, on VOX, where ‘GI Joe – Secret Mission Cobra’ will be shown at 8:15 p.m.
But beware: since FSK 16 titles are not allowed to be shown on free TV until a later date, it will be a rather heavy version. The website schnittbericht.de assumes almost five minutes of violence, which will most likely be missing from the FSK-12 version that will most likely be shown this evening. If you want to see the entire film, it’s best to wait until Friday, February 2, when the title repeats at 10:15 p.m.
You can experience the show completely regardless of data and without discounts as part of your flat-rate subscription to the Paramount+ streaming service. Or you can watch the movie as (4K/UltraHD) Blu-ray, DVD or paid video-on-demand*from online retailers such as Amazon.
writes editor-in-chief Christoph Petersen in the FILMSTARTS review of “GI Joe 2”, but: This also includes, for example that protagonist of “GI Joe”. Channing Tatum died at the beginning of part 2, despite his chemistry with the new addition Dwayne Johnson is the climax of the film.
That’s because Tatum wasn’t particularly interested in the first film and therefore asked for his character to be killed off early in the second part. Those responsible expanded Tatum’s role in “The Reckoning” a bit with reshoots, but this also makes his character’s death seem all the stranger in retrospect. You can read the whole bizarre story behind it here:
“GI Joe 2: The Reckoning” only receives an average of 2.5 out of 5 stars in the FILMSTARTS review, the same note as the somewhat trashy first part.
Anyone who has a soft spot for (sci-fi) action films with big stars and impressive acting values can still take a look – especially because Hollywood icon Bruce Willis also makes an appearance here as the rough ex-leader of the Joe’s.
In “GI Joe 2,” the elite force is nearly wiped out by their opponents from the secret organization Cobra after it takes control of the White House. Only three of the Joes survive: Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Flint (DJ Cotrona), and sniper Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) return to the US to fight Cobra, while Ninja Snake Eyes (Ray Park) searches for clues in Japan with his partner Jinx (Elodie Yung)…
By the way, another appearance by the GI Joes was announced in 2023 in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” as a crossover with the Transformers. You can read more about this in this article: