Arts & Entertainment

"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" - Trailer and Reviews

The rated PG-13 film is playing at Tucker's Movie Tavern.

G.I. Joe - the movie, that is - is back in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." The movie also stars Dwayne Johnson and Channing Tatum, who was in the first installment, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra."

Except for one particular scene, some critics aren't saying a lot of good things about this movie. Here's an idea of a few critics' impressions of "G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation," which is rated PG-13 and is playing at the Movie Tavern in Tucker:

It's a comic-book movie without any comic-book style, a juvenile genre piece that's – all too typically – intimidated by strong women but erotically transfixed by big, gleaming guns. Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger, posted on the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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In the end, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a stupid film that ignores the potent ideas seemingly right at the surface in favor of unimaginative action and bland characters. - Scott Mendelson, The Huffington Post.

Christy Lemire on the The Huffington Post called G.I. Joe:Retaliation "an astonishingly violent PG-13 movie."

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