@@nnice2250 then I must be on drugs too if I didn't like the movie as well? You need to realize as we always say movies are subjective and if you like it, that's cool. But I gotta acknowledge the fact the movie is poorly done and I'mma be honest with it. It had potential to be better but unfortunately they executed it so bad
Just literally watched it. As a movie freak, I already have this feeling when i watched the trailer. It's a BAD MOVIE (STORYLINE, CHARACTERS, for FEW CAST, AND THE CHARACTERS MOTIVE) Snake eyes is a Stupid guy. Don't he think that he can find his father killer himself, or use the Tommy power to JUST find the murderer of his father? I confused with the Snake MOTIVE that change so many times (So the other Joe members, and yet they are really really ACCEPTANCE for his mistakes and flaws, like WHAAAATT...) and YES, Snake is STUPID. Cmon, you dont cast A RIDICULOUS GOOD LOOKING GUY to cover him in a mask (In this context of BEING SNAKE EYES that will fully face cover) Bad cast for Henry as a Snake eyes, REALLY?? oh God he really lack of CHARISMA as Snake eyes and he really BAD with martial arts. Henry is good only as he holding gun and acting (So far, as a asian Mafia in 'the Gentlemen' ). Ohh.. Christ sake, Samara Weaving as Scarlet, and The Baroness REALLY JUST AS EYE CANDY ON THIS MOVIE, they don't even have a right character and proportion on this 2HOURS MOVIE!!!! For TOMMY as STORM SHADOW, oh i really LOVE his character, REALLY REALLY CHARISMATIC, as a man that hold the burden of Arashikage clan and someone who have darkside, he REALLY SHOW it all. Shame the storyline is F' up. 2HOURS MOVIE AND STILL CAN'T MADE THE STORY ABOUT SNAKE EYES DECISION TO SILENT??!!! For god sake!! Its still better the GI Joe 1&2 for overall compares to this movie.
You nailed it when you called Snake Eyes an asshole and pointed out that Storm Shadow was screwed over. As a Gi Joe fan and especially a Snake Eyes fan this movie broke me.
Word. Tommy was the sympathetic character in the movie. It seems as if the screenwriter had Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow character traits and motivations confused.
@@TheFlash-rh2el You didn't actually watch it, did you? He was UNDERCOVER with the Yakuza. He recruited Snake Eyes (who is not at all related to the Arashikage clan).
@@matthewk4912 all "family" member because they're invincible, super humans, the greatest team in the whole world, better than any other human being. It's just a huge huge leap from street racers
I swear to god, Storm Shadow's sister in this film has a Japanese accent for the first 10 minutes and then out of NOWHERE gets a British accent which she maintains for the rest of the film...wtf??
As a HUGE 80s comic run fan, this movie was crushing. It's SO easy to get a Joe movie right! They don't even have to be creative! Just roughly adapt most of the comic run!!!!
To be fair about the title, I think they meant GI Joe origins the same way they meant X-men origins Wolverine, or the X-men origins comic series. It was meant to be a subtitle for origin stories about certain GI Joe characters like SnakeEyes not the origin of the GI Joe. Like how the X-men origins comic series was not about the X-mens origin as a whole, but an origin story singular titles for X-men characters themselves
That is true. Snake Eyes is the bad guy in this movie. I watched the whole movie and did not realize. But I was waiting the whole time -"he's going to change" and he never really did.
It’s so annoying how Hollywood keeps trying to use the Raid cast but clearly has no idea how to use them properly. They did an alright job with Joe Taslim in Mortal Kombat and I hope he gets more opportunities as Noob Saibot in potential better sequels, but most other cases like the The Force Awakens were just complete wastes of their talents. I am at least glad they’re getting some Hollywood money, I just wish the movies were better
@@markobelobrajdic9271 In The Force Awakens, JJ Abrams had initially brought them along to choreograph some of the fights, but thought that their suggestions were too violent, so Abrams ended up reducing their roles to a cameo. Iko Uwais mentioned this in an interview with Men's Health iirc.
Lol, I thought he was exaggerating, he isn't.. Not that it is shaky cam but that they shot it as though they were standing next to the people in a fight and missing all the action..
Rick Rodriguez how many of those PG-13 movies with better action were based on very popular children's TOYS and had ninja swords and weapons? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1-3 didn't use shaking camera action sequences but never showed any real violence with Raphael and Leonardo's swords. The shaking camera in Snake Eyes was probably to hide that Yakuza were getting all sliced up. To keep it PG-13
@@DanielAlvarez-iw8hr Da fuk are you talking about , the previous two G.I joe movies were PG-13 as well. The action scenes weren't super shaky , and people got sliced and blown up too
@@neilbreen371 the h you talking about? Those previous G.I. Joe movies were not even about ninjas. Those were army movies. They didn't have swords slicing arms and legs off. It was mostly some people getting shot with guns. They didn't show arms or legs getting cut off
He was better without the mystique ripped away. It almost feels like they switched roles, should have been Storm Shadow infiltrating his own clan, a prodigal son they had reason to trust. Solves so many plot issues.
Best rewiew ever so funny John you made me cry laughing so hard🤣 gonna Watch it though but i knew it would be bad. The director have a bad track record😏
As a non GI Joe fan watching this film, it was definitely not as terrible as a lot of these critics are making it out to be. Although I thought the story was just decent (not good or bad just average), the fighting was epic although the camera was shaky which was annoying, but the cast was really good especially storm shadow who was the most badass part of this film
I think it had a lot of promotion. Saw tons of posters around LA, funny commercials with Henry Goulding as the toy figure Snake Eyes, solid trailers, etc… They just didn’t make a good movie
That's a strange comparison - it works for the Bourne movies and Paul Greengrass knows what he is doing. It is the hundreds of imitators that have made it insufferable as a stylistic choice.
@@Beast80001 Paul Greengrass kind of started the shaky cam thing. But he actually knows what he’s doing. Later on, other directors use it to make up for shody camerawork.
Same here i felt so bad for storm shadow at the end...no wonder he became a cobra operative lol...the shaky cam at the beginning reminded me of that catwoman scene in the park
I saw the movie today at AMC and for me it felt very much Andrew Koji's journey to joining Cobra. I felt Koji had depth and dimension and paralleled to Ah Sahm in Warrior. He is all about loyalty, brotherhood and it leads to betrayal by the person he vouched for and his clan disowning him which kind of sucked. Henry Golding was great as Snake Eyes but the character of Snake Eyes definitely betrayed Storm Shadow who was loyal to the Arashikage Clan and he got stabbed in the back for no reason. The other characters like Peter Mensah's Blind Master, Iko Uwais's Hardmaster were their for exposition and held their own in the story with the material given to them.
For me, the best use of shaky is the start of the final fight in the first blade. Blade land in the stereotypical superhero pose, looks up and growls "frost".... first hit shakes the camera shot.... absolutely loved it. Gave huge impact to that first kick and really gave you the feeling ooohhhh shit, blades pissed! Lol
Just finally watched the movie. And totally agree with you. I couldn't believe what a complete Dbag snake eyes is thru this whole movie. Finally at the end when he cuts his hand and offers it to storm shadow. I was like finally he has figured it out. Let the guy that killed your father go. So you don't have to continue to be this jerk back stabber. And oh my lord. He still does the most stupid thing. I was about stop watching at that point. I couldn't take snake eyes any more. But I watched the rest. And again your right I felt so bad for storm shadow by the end. It was like screw snake eyes. Like he says at the end this is all my fault!!!! Oh yeah it is dbag!!!! The dude trusted you and became your blood brother. For snake eyes to still ruin his life. The shaking didnt bother me to much. The backstabbing from snake eyes and his quest to kill his fathers killer. For him to do all the bad he did. To finally just let the dude go!!!! It was hard to take. And there was no training at all for snake eyes to be this bad ass. He was a street fighter. That's it! I was waiting for a part of the movie. To show some sick training. Nope he was just a full blown ninja warrior from no where. I didn't hate the movie. But like you said i was waiting for snake eyes to get killed.
LOL, you're not wrong about the shaky cam problem in Snake Eyes. Not sure why Hollywood keeps using this technique for filming fight scenes. Koji and Iko Uwais are both martial artists and can probably go through a full choreograph fight scene without any breaks/editing. Ashamed the camera didn't just pull back and let them do what they do. Makes me a little nervous for Shang-Chi to be honest with the fight cinematography. The movie itself is okay and I like the conflicting relationship between Snake Eyes and Tommy/Storm Shadow.
I 100% agree with John about Stormshadow/ Tommy. I was rooting for him and I was just as upset as Tommy for what happened. Some people are saying 'but he didn't follow the rules of the clan.' B.S! He understood where he went wrong; why the clan made the promise and vowed to recommit to it! And he still loses his birthright and his planned for future, and Snake Eyes gets to keep his sword, gets a new suit, gets supported by the clan, and closure about his father.
Well maybe they can make a storm shadow movie now , lol everyone said he was good , well a villain movie will do , I mean who the good guy is always just perception !
It's funny I got an ad for Snake Eyes during the stream cause I rewatched the stream and I heard the ad saying "People say this is the best GI Joe movie yet" and I started laughing hahaha
One reviewer I truly respect. And when in the first 25 seconds they say it doesn't matter if you know some of the plot by spoilers... I'm questioning how much to spend on tickets. I was going to go VIP but I might just go for general admission now.. Hahaha.
Honestly G.I Joe and Transformers and series like that dont have a "true" canon like Brands such as DC Marvel or Star Wars for example so most movies are a mix of so many different versions and new stuff. Some versions Storm killed him because he was petty, others it was an accident, others he had nothing to do with it etc
True i was rooting for storm shadow the whole movie. Snake eye was the true villian in this movie. If they make a sequel fuck snake eye i want it to be a storm shadow movie.
John the "GI Joe Origins" subtitle doesnt literally mean the Origins of the GI Joe as an organization lol. I dont know anyone who took that literally. It simply means a GI Joe "Character" Origin Story
Playing John doesn't like every movie that I respect his opinions and everything but I'm gonna watch it anyway trailer convinced me even if it sucks oh wow I would enjoy my popcorn and nachos
the things henry goulding was doing in the movie .. i thought in the end thier will be a twist that koji will be snake eyes and goulding will be storm shadows because as per my knowledge storm shadows suppose to be bad not snake eyes
Best example of ninja fighting done best recently is Daredevil season 2 with the Hand now that season had a lot of problems but the action was incredible.
You should watch the Japanese Rurouni Kenshin live action movies adapted from the manga/anime. Especially the last one. It has the most awesome martial arts fight choreography and camerawork.
I'm a huge fan of the 80s franchise. I'd bet everything I own if Rob watched the movie before hearing John's review. He would have loved it. It was a fun movie with a fresh new approach to the characters that I thought worked. It's a shame reviews like these can literally deprive people of a good time at the movies. You don't at all mention snake eyes motivation. Snake eyes joining the harushkagi clan was part of the Yakusas plan from the start. Did you miss the first quarter of the movie? All his life he thought that the guy killed his dad was acting on his own. When he realized that the guy was working for Cobra all along and he just helped Cobra he immediately tried to fix the huge dilema he just caused. For a guy who gets paid to review movies you'd think you would understand what you were watching. This movie was leaps and bounds above the other two abominations of crap. It was a fun movie and a great start to franchise that has excellent potential. Shaky cam didn't bother me at all. I thought it made some of the scenes look more dynamic (ie, Walking down the hall talking on the phone.) It made scarlett seem more bad ass. Rob go watch the movie and have fun. Schnepp would've loved it!!! I hope they make more these.
It mix for everyone, there were elements of film could done better job. Main thing is the conflict between the two main characters. In all series, story made sense, but change in movie. That been hearing alot could hold the camera during whole action section.
I would give this film at least a 6 or 7 out of 10 only thanks to Andrew Koji's Storm Shadow. This film really felt more of a Storm Shadow story than a Snake Eyes story. Koji had a stronger arc than Golding's Snake Eyes and it paralleled to Ah Sahm in Warrior. He had the fury, rage, hurt, pain, sadness all wrapped perfectly.
Yeah the movie is fine. I didn't have a problem with the camera work, but I sit in the back row. I also saw it in IMAX, so maybe the framing was different. John is right about Storm Shadow being the hero of this film, but Snake Eyes has the redemption arc. The next film would be the descent of Storm Shadow.
Sometimes I agree with John and sometimes I don’t, but he was spot on here. I just left the theater and felt the same way. Snake Eyes was an @$$ and I felt bad for Storm Shadow. I’ve seen movies make this mistake before when trying to do a redemption story, they make the main character’s redemption come up short. Just like Snake Eyes all of the sudden being accepted and switching allegiance, Storm Shadow joining Cobra at the end didn’t jive with his character either. Hell, the whole movie could have done without the either aspect of GI Joe and that’s not a good thing. On the plus side I will say that Henry Golding does a good job playing a villain (was also good in the gentleman).
Just got back from watching the movie. I said the same thing to my son right after it finished. That it was snake eyes who caused the whole situation and storm shadow had every right to be pissed. Through out the movie I was thinking the only way to save the movie was if there was a TWIST that the character Tommy(storm shadow) actually turned out to be snake eyes , which I literally thought that’s what was going to be happen since ,exactly as John describes, snake eyes was an ahole and has NO redeeming quality
LMBO "Shaky Cam" tool of the Low Budget production! I wanted this film to be Great to start a new but too many gaps missing context and depth of character! Rise of Cobra as bad as parts of it were did do a backstory for Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow that not only made sense but made Snake Likable!
@JohnCampea if you hated Snake Eyes (I didn't like it either didn't hate it as much as most) I CANNOT WAIT to hear your reaction for Old. IT IRRITATED AND ANGERED THE HELL OUT OF ME AND OH I NOTICED THE CURSED SHAKY CAM IN THIS MOVIE FAR MORE THAN SNAKE EYES. Old wasn't scary at all just shitty A.F and so bloody ridiculous. I didn't care for any of those characters and didn't feel the family dynamics at all!!! Feel so angry and ashamed at myself for spending $25 for a VIP Cineplex ticket for this shit. The theater was almost packed now that they removed social distancing protocols with the reserved seating booking and all and while everyone was quiet, patient and professional throughout the movie watching experience IT WAS STILL 1 of my WORST MOST UNCOMFORTABLE theater experiences simply BECAUSE OF HOW SHITTY THE MOVIE WAS! How the hell did the studio greenlight this shit and can't believe they got some talented actors to say yes to this shit! Man I am scared for the Green Knight now!
Not going to see it due to the distracting shakey cam. I thought the second and third Bourne movies taught studios we don't like it. Also there's been a year and a half of time to fix the movie. And if there wasn't then stall the release date. I wouldn't notice if it were delayed a few weeks. I'll wait until it streams online.
They still shouldn’t have put that because the connections to G.I. Joe and Cobra were a big detriment to the film. I think Baroness and Scarlett should’ve been relegated to post-credits scenes, kinda how I felt the revelation of The Doctor becoming Cobra Commander should’ve been placed as a post-credits scene in The Rise of Cobra.
Just literally watched it. As a movie freak, I already have this feeling when i watched the trailer. It's a BAD MOVIE (STORYLINE, CHARACTERS, for FEW CAST, AND THE CHARACTERS MOTIVE) Snake eyes is a Stupid guy. Don't he think that he can find his father killer himself, or use the Tommy power to JUST find the murderer of his father? I confused with the Snake MOTIVE that change so many times (So the other Joe members, and yet they are really really ACCEPTANCE for his mistakes and flaws, like WHAAAATT...) and YES, Snake is STUPID. Cmon, you dont cast A RIDICULOUS GOOD LOOKING GUY to cover him in a mask (In this context of BEING SNAKE EYES that will fully face cover) Bad cast for Henry as a Snake eyes, REALLY?? oh God he really lack of CHARISMA as Snake eyes and he really BAD with martial arts. Henry is good only as he holding gun and acting (So far, as a asian Mafia in 'the Gentlemen' ). Ohh.. Christ sake, Samara Weaving as Scarlet, and The Baroness REALLY JUST AS EYE CANDY ON THIS MOVIE, they don't even have a right character and proportion on this 2HOURS MOVIE!!!! For TOMMY as STORM SHADOW, oh i really LOVE his character, REALLY REALLY CHARISMATIC, as a man that hold the burden of Arashikage clan and someone who have darkside, he REALLY SHOW it all. Shame the storyline is F' up. 2HOURS MOVIE AND STILL CAN'T MADE THE STORY ABOUT SNAKE EYES DECISION TO SILENT??!!! For god sake!! Its still better the GI Joe 1&2 for overall compares to this movie.
I didn’t mind this movie until after that girl got screwed over and then joined them to fight 🤣 after that they lost me, but That beginning fight scene in the cage was unwatchable and they cleaned it up a bit throughout so it wasn’t giving me motion sickness, but I don’t understand how they thought that was cool! The person editing this movie must’ve had to take a break from his monitor because that shit was nauseating. They also could’ve given snake eyes his suit after the third challenge and then trained him to be this bad ass swordsman but instead they made everyone else around him kick his ass and he still didn’t die and then gave him his suit 15 seconds before it ended when we don’t even know if theyre making a sequel because if this movie bombs they might scrap it and that 15 seconds is all we could see and that’s disappointing because snake eyes is fucking sick
The problem with this movie was it had a thematic message that it never delivered. How does a dishonorable man become honorable? How does an untrustworthy outsider become trustworthy. How does a man consumed with vengeance evolve towards a greater purpose? The movie presents these questions but they only give us half answers.
This might be random and unnecessary but wouldn’t it be cool if they made a movie on just storm shadow now wether it’s just with Andrew Koji or doing a movie with him and byung hun lee the original storm shadow and just have them together in the story by having the story revolve around the present storm shadow then go with the past storm shadow like in a back and forth story between the past and the present.
Well Jeremy Jahnes did say that this movie was worthy of the title origins (while showing a picture of X-Men Origins)
Damn
Pro tip: If the origin movie has the word 'Origin' in its title then it's not gonna be good so don't watch it. 😂
Rob just sitting there with no expression while Johns impersonating the shaky cam 🤣
Lol... Robert's face when John said "This movie is bad".
@@nnice2250 Rob hasn't seen the movie lol
@@nnice2250 then I must be on drugs too if I didn't like the movie as well? You need to realize as we always say movies are subjective and if you like it, that's cool. But I gotta acknowledge the fact the movie is poorly done and I'mma be honest with it. It had potential to be better but unfortunately they executed it so bad
Just literally watched it. As a movie freak, I already have this feeling when i watched the trailer.
It's a BAD MOVIE (STORYLINE, CHARACTERS, for FEW CAST, AND THE CHARACTERS MOTIVE)
Snake eyes is a Stupid guy. Don't he think that he can find his father killer himself, or use the Tommy power to JUST find the murderer of his father?
I confused with the Snake MOTIVE that change so many times (So the other Joe members, and yet they are really really ACCEPTANCE for his mistakes and flaws, like WHAAAATT...) and YES, Snake is STUPID.
Cmon, you dont cast A RIDICULOUS GOOD LOOKING GUY to cover him in a mask (In this context of BEING SNAKE EYES that will fully face cover)
Bad cast for Henry as a Snake eyes, REALLY?? oh God he really lack of CHARISMA as Snake eyes and he really BAD with martial arts. Henry is good only as he holding gun and acting (So far, as a asian Mafia in 'the Gentlemen' ).
Ohh.. Christ sake, Samara Weaving as Scarlet, and The Baroness REALLY JUST AS EYE CANDY ON THIS MOVIE, they don't even have a right character and proportion on this 2HOURS MOVIE!!!!
For TOMMY as STORM SHADOW, oh i really LOVE his character, REALLY REALLY CHARISMATIC, as a man that hold the burden of Arashikage clan and someone who have darkside, he REALLY SHOW it all. Shame the storyline is F' up.
2HOURS MOVIE AND STILL CAN'T MADE THE STORY ABOUT SNAKE EYES DECISION TO SILENT??!!! For god sake!!
Its still better the GI Joe 1&2 for overall compares to this movie.
You nailed it when you called Snake Eyes an asshole and pointed out that Storm Shadow was screwed over. As a Gi Joe fan and especially a Snake Eyes fan this movie broke me.
Walked out of the theater feeling soooo heartbroken for Storm Shadow
Word. Tommy was the sympathetic character in the movie. It seems as if the screenwriter had Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow character traits and motivations confused.
Dude the movie is dope
@@natethegreatreviews in what universe?
@@Asvpphenny 😂😂😂😂
Snake eyes was indeed the villian in this movie lmao, Storm Shadow was really the true hero. I love this version of Storm Shadow.
A bit. They're all bad regardless of how you throw it. Storm Shadow was a yakuza who valued nepotism and destiny, which are three terrible ways to be
@@TheFlash-rh2el You didn't actually watch it, did you? He was UNDERCOVER with the Yakuza. He recruited Snake Eyes (who is not at all related to the Arashikage clan).
"It's hard to like a movie when you hate the hero.." that's what I've been feeling about fast franchise
But FAMILY!!!
@@matthewk4912 all "family" member because they're invincible, super humans, the greatest team in the whole world, better than any other human being. It's just a huge huge leap from street racers
@@matthewk4912 I couldn't agree more, man. That's my whole point
You don't say that about family
The fast films are so bad
Can someone make this a meme when John said “you can believe me or not when I tell you it doesn’t matter”😂😂
the lifeless expression on robs face while john is ripping this movie apart.
Kinda reminded me of when Darkseid told Desaad they will stop at nothing to get the Anti-Life Equation (Desaad being pretty speechless)
I swear to god, Storm Shadow's sister in this film has a Japanese accent for the first 10 minutes and then out of NOWHERE gets a British accent which she maintains for the rest of the film...wtf??
Lol I saw that too.
I noticed too that her accent kept changing haha
As a HUGE 80s comic run fan, this movie was crushing. It's SO easy to get a Joe movie right! They don't even have to be creative! Just roughly adapt most of the comic run!!!!
Facts
To be fair about the title, I think they meant GI Joe origins the same way they meant X-men origins Wolverine, or the X-men origins comic series. It was meant to be a subtitle for origin stories about certain GI Joe characters like SnakeEyes not the origin of the GI Joe. Like how the X-men origins comic series was not about the X-mens origin as a whole, but an origin story singular titles for X-men characters themselves
the name of the movie was a typo it was supposed to be shake eyes not snake eyes
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Rob's "I...I..I was too" at the 9:10 mark...I felt that.
I just googled the director to see what other work they've done...
"Allegiant"
Ahh yeah that tracks.
That is true. Snake Eyes is the bad guy in this movie. I watched the whole movie and did not realize. But I was waiting the whole time -"he's going to change" and he never really did.
Good job team. You took the star of The Raid which is one of the greatest martial arts movies ever made and made him unmentionable. R.I.P. Iko Uwais.
Same thing happen to the Raid Stars in The Force Awakens. Massively misused.
It’s so annoying how Hollywood keeps trying to use the Raid cast but clearly has no idea how to use them properly. They did an alright job with Joe Taslim in Mortal Kombat and I hope he gets more opportunities as Noob Saibot in potential better sequels, but most other cases like the The Force Awakens were just complete wastes of their talents. I am at least glad they’re getting some Hollywood money, I just wish the movies were better
@@markobelobrajdic9271 In The Force Awakens, JJ Abrams had initially brought them along to choreograph some of the fights, but thought that their suggestions were too violent, so Abrams ended up reducing their roles to a cameo. Iko Uwais mentioned this in an interview with Men's Health iirc.
Lol, I thought he was exaggerating, he isn't.. Not that it is shaky cam but that they shot it as though they were standing next to the people in a fight and missing all the action..
Hasbro told the director to keep the movie rated PG-13
@@DanielAlvarez-iw8hr I'm having a hard time processing that
Rick Rodriguez how many of those PG-13 movies with better action were based on very popular children's TOYS and had ninja swords and weapons? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1-3 didn't use shaking camera action sequences but never showed any real violence with Raphael and Leonardo's swords. The shaking camera in Snake Eyes was probably to hide that Yakuza were getting all sliced up. To keep it PG-13
@@DanielAlvarez-iw8hr Da fuk are you talking about , the previous two G.I joe movies were PG-13 as well. The action scenes weren't super shaky , and people got sliced and blown up too
@@neilbreen371 the h you talking about? Those previous G.I. Joe movies were not even about ninjas. Those were army movies. They didn't have swords slicing arms and legs off. It was mostly some people getting shot with guns. They didn't show arms or legs getting cut off
lol, but johnnnnnnnnn, ninjas!
Would love to see the DP talk about why he shot it the way he did. Like did he actually think it was good? Was it the directors choice? Etc
He was better without the mystique ripped away. It almost feels like they switched roles, should have been Storm Shadow infiltrating his own clan, a prodigal son they had reason to trust. Solves so many plot issues.
I said the same thing.
Best rewiew ever so funny John you made me cry laughing so hard🤣 gonna Watch it though but i knew it would be bad. The director have a bad track record😏
Lmao this is the best review I have seen in a while. The epileptic monkey 😂😂
As a non GI Joe fan watching this film, it was definitely not as terrible as a lot of these critics are making it out to be. Although I thought the story was just decent (not good or bad just average), the fighting was epic although the camera was shaky which was annoying, but the cast was really good especially storm shadow who was the most badass part of this film
Movie was trash, storm shadow, blind master and hard master were the only good things about it.
If yall think John is exaggerating well sad to say he is not my friend literally said to me as we were watching if the cameraman was drunk on set lmao
2:13 When mom brings McDonald's to school for lunch
The lack of real promotion was a big red flag imo.
I think it had a lot of promotion. Saw tons of posters around LA, funny commercials with Henry Goulding as the toy figure Snake Eyes, solid trailers, etc… They just didn’t make a good movie
There was a shit tonne of promo for it. The camera crew & editor messed the footage up in post-prod.
I loved Storm Shadow in this movie. Even before this movie, I was never drawn to Snake Eyes.
Lol @johncampea lost it at epileptic moneky!!!
Is the shaky cam as bad as The Bourne Supremacy?
That's a strange comparison - it works for the Bourne movies and Paul Greengrass knows what he is doing. It is the hundreds of imitators that have made it insufferable as a stylistic choice.
same level. just more of it.
Well my dad loves the Bourne movies so you can't say no one loves shaky cam when it comes to those.
@@Beast80001 Paul Greengrass kind of started the shaky cam thing. But he actually knows what he’s doing. Later on, other directors use it to make up for shody camerawork.
@@brandonjones5879 i know. I just was putting that out there.
Same here i felt so bad for storm shadow at the end...no wonder he became a cobra operative lol...the shaky cam at the beginning reminded me of that catwoman scene in the park
I saw the movie today at AMC and for me it felt very much Andrew Koji's journey to joining Cobra. I felt Koji had depth and dimension and paralleled to Ah Sahm in Warrior. He is all about loyalty, brotherhood and it leads to betrayal by the person he vouched for and his clan disowning him which kind of sucked. Henry Golding was great as Snake Eyes but the character of Snake Eyes definitely betrayed Storm Shadow who was loyal to the Arashikage Clan and he got stabbed in the back for no reason. The other characters like Peter Mensah's Blind Master, Iko Uwais's Hardmaster were their for exposition and held their own in the story with the material given to them.
Man did I dodge a bullet watching old over snake eyes lol
Middle of the pack. Some odd dialogue but overall good time.
That epileptic monkey comment nearly floored me 😂😂
For me, the best use of shaky is the start of the final fight in the first blade. Blade land in the stereotypical superhero pose, looks up and growls "frost".... first hit shakes the camera shot.... absolutely loved it. Gave huge impact to that first kick and really gave you the feeling ooohhhh shit, blades pissed! Lol
Movie should’ve been titled “Storm Shadow”.
Just finally watched the movie. And totally agree with you. I couldn't believe what a complete Dbag snake eyes is thru this whole movie. Finally at the end when he cuts his hand and offers it to storm shadow. I was like finally he has figured it out. Let the guy that killed your father go. So you don't have to continue to be this jerk back stabber. And oh my lord. He still does the most stupid thing. I was about stop watching at that point. I couldn't take snake eyes any more. But I watched the rest. And again your right I felt so bad for storm shadow by the end. It was like screw snake eyes. Like he says at the end this is all my fault!!!! Oh yeah it is dbag!!!! The dude trusted you and became your blood brother. For snake eyes to still ruin his life. The shaking didnt bother me to much. The backstabbing from snake eyes and his quest to kill his fathers killer. For him to do all the bad he did. To finally just let the dude go!!!! It was hard to take. And there was no training at all for snake eyes to be this bad ass. He was a street fighter. That's it! I was waiting for a part of the movie. To show some sick training. Nope he was just a full blown ninja warrior from no where. I didn't hate the movie. But like you said i was waiting for snake eyes to get killed.
John Campea mad is sensational and ridiculously entertaining 😂 I love it
LOL, you're not wrong about the shaky cam problem in Snake Eyes. Not sure why Hollywood keeps using this technique for filming fight scenes. Koji and Iko Uwais are both martial artists and can probably go through a full choreograph fight scene without any breaks/editing. Ashamed the camera didn't just pull back and let them do what they do. Makes me a little nervous for Shang-Chi to be honest with the fight cinematography. The movie itself is okay and I like the conflicting relationship between Snake Eyes and Tommy/Storm Shadow.
I got a Snake Eyes ad in the middle of this video...rough ad placement
I 100% agree with John about Stormshadow/ Tommy. I was rooting for him and I was just as upset as Tommy for what happened. Some people are saying 'but he didn't follow the rules of the clan.' B.S! He understood where he went wrong; why the clan made the promise and vowed to recommit to it! And he still loses his birthright and his planned for future, and Snake Eyes gets to keep his sword, gets a new suit, gets supported by the clan, and closure about his father.
you went so hard in the paint on this one that I want to see this film even more, good grief tell us how you really feel lol
Well maybe they can make a storm shadow movie now , lol everyone said he was good , well a villain movie will do , I mean who the good guy is always just perception !
It's funny I got an ad for Snake Eyes during the stream cause I rewatched the stream and I heard the ad saying "People say this is the best GI Joe movie yet" and I started laughing hahaha
I too was so looking forward to this movie. I'm a big time G.i.joe fan. My heart broke.
Yeah, with a little editing, this would have been a great "Rise of Storm Shadow" movie!
One reviewer I truly respect. And when in the first 25 seconds they say it doesn't matter if you know some of the plot by spoilers...
I'm questioning how much to spend on tickets. I was going to go VIP but I might just go for general admission now.. Hahaha.
I thought storm shadow was supposed to have killed their master?
Honestly G.I Joe and Transformers and series like that dont have a "true" canon like Brands such as DC Marvel or Star Wars for example so most movies are a mix of so many different versions and new stuff. Some versions Storm killed him because he was petty, others it was an accident, others he had nothing to do with it etc
I'm here because of your out of theater reaction.
I am thoroughly enjoying this topic and video.
Ha ha ha
All the best guys ❤🙏
Yes! I'm so glad it wasn't just me.
Storm Shadow 100%.
Well, I will definitely be watching this movie online, and will save myself 30 plus dollars. Thank you John and Rob
True i was rooting for storm shadow the whole movie. Snake eye was the true villian in this movie. If they make a sequel fuck snake eye i want it to be a storm shadow movie.
The only films that does shaky cam right were Jason Bourne films.
Even they messed it up with the last one though
Lol boy o boy JC rants are the best! That made my Friday thanks John!
John the "GI Joe Origins" subtitle doesnt literally mean the Origins of the GI Joe as an organization lol. I dont know anyone who took that literally. It simply means a GI Joe "Character" Origin Story
Playing John doesn't like every movie that I respect his opinions and everything but I'm gonna watch it anyway trailer convinced me even if it sucks oh wow I would enjoy my popcorn and nachos
@@nickcintron06 this movies sucks. Just my opinion
Yeah, you should definitely watch it...I absolutely loved it! Don't listen to the critics man...
The action scene was hard to watch and snake eyes was very annoying and lying to everyone every second
My expectations were already low going into this movie Thursday night. After I left the movie, I realized my expectations were not low enough 🤦♂️
the things henry goulding was doing in the movie .. i thought in the end thier will be a twist that koji will be snake eyes and goulding will be storm shadows because as per my knowledge storm shadows suppose to be bad not snake eyes
My expectations was that andrew koji was going to steal the show and he did.
I kinda wanna watch it just to see is it as bad as John say it is
Watch it man, I absolutely loved it!! Don't listen to the critics
Its all true but i enjoyed the movie all the same but im not gi joe fan so yea
Snake Eyes wasn't even a ninja in this, he was street fighter that magically became Bruce Lee.
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The shaky cam reminded me of the final resident evil movie. The entire movie shakes
It wasn’t that level of awful to be honest , the final resident evil movie it’s shaky to levels I cannot imagine
10:54 killed me sooo bad lol...it is 236 am right now and I'm making WAAAY too much noise!
I've never heard so many complaints about cinematography. Wow.
Ill wait for the dvd
Man I was looking forward to sneak goes the trailers looked amazing I’m still going to see it but my expectations are so low now
The only movies that did shaky cam well are Bourne movies.
@@rarodrig6 To me it was the other way around: sequels had more shaky cam due to Paul Greengrass' style.
Epileptic Monkey!!!!….I am good for the rest of the year. 🙈🤣. Classic.
Best example of ninja fighting done best recently is Daredevil season 2 with the Hand now that season had a lot of problems but the action was incredible.
You should watch the Japanese Rurouni Kenshin live action movies adapted from the manga/anime. Especially the last one. It has the most awesome martial arts fight choreography and camerawork.
I'm a huge fan of the 80s franchise. I'd bet everything I own if Rob watched the movie before hearing John's review. He would have loved it. It was a fun movie with a fresh new approach to the characters that I thought worked. It's a shame reviews like these can literally deprive people of a good time at the movies. You don't at all mention snake eyes motivation. Snake eyes joining the harushkagi clan was part of the Yakusas plan from the start. Did you miss the first quarter of the movie? All his life he thought that the guy killed his dad was acting on his own. When he realized that the guy was working for Cobra all along and he just helped Cobra he immediately tried to fix the huge dilema he just caused. For a guy who gets paid to review movies you'd think you would understand what you were watching. This movie was leaps and bounds above the other two abominations of crap. It was a fun movie and a great start to franchise that has excellent potential. Shaky cam didn't bother me at all. I thought it made some of the scenes look more dynamic (ie, Walking down the hall talking on the phone.) It made scarlett seem more bad ass. Rob go watch the movie and have fun. Schnepp would've loved it!!! I hope they make more these.
It mix for everyone, there were elements of film could done better job. Main thing is the conflict between the two main characters. In all series, story made sense, but change in movie. That been hearing alot could hold the camera during whole action section.
I would give this film at least a 6 or 7 out of 10 only thanks to Andrew Koji's Storm Shadow. This film really felt more of a Storm Shadow story than a Snake Eyes story. Koji had a stronger arc than Golding's Snake Eyes and it paralleled to Ah Sahm in Warrior. He had the fury, rage, hurt, pain, sadness all wrapped perfectly.
Yeah the movie is fine. I didn't have a problem with the camera work, but I sit in the back row. I also saw it in IMAX, so maybe the framing was different. John is right about Storm Shadow being the hero of this film, but Snake Eyes has the redemption arc. The next film would be the descent of Storm Shadow.
Sometimes I agree with John and sometimes I don’t, but he was spot on here. I just left the theater and felt the same way. Snake Eyes was an @$$ and I felt bad for Storm Shadow. I’ve seen movies make this mistake before when trying to do a redemption story, they make the main character’s redemption come up short. Just like Snake Eyes all of the sudden being accepted and switching allegiance, Storm Shadow joining Cobra at the end didn’t jive with his character either. Hell, the whole movie could have done without the either aspect of GI Joe and that’s not a good thing. On the plus side I will say that Henry Golding does a good job playing a villain (was also good in the gentleman).
Yup. So bad
Is it me or snake eyes was extremely nerfed compared to the other g.I joe movie
Just got back from watching the movie. I said the same thing to my son right after it finished. That it was snake eyes who caused the whole situation and storm shadow had every right to be pissed. Through out the movie I was thinking the only way to save the movie was if there was a TWIST that the character Tommy(storm shadow) actually turned out to be snake eyes , which I literally thought that’s what was going to be happen since ,exactly as John describes, snake eyes was an ahole and has NO redeeming quality
LMBO "Shaky Cam" tool of the Low Budget production! I wanted this film to be Great to start a new but too many gaps missing context and depth of character! Rise of Cobra as bad as parts of it were did do a backstory for Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow that not only made sense but made Snake Likable!
So the Snake Eyes from the 2 GI Joe movies sounds way more legit than this one. Origin wise and all
@JohnCampea if you hated Snake Eyes (I didn't like it either didn't hate it as much as most) I CANNOT WAIT to hear your reaction for Old. IT IRRITATED AND ANGERED THE HELL OUT OF ME AND OH I NOTICED THE CURSED SHAKY CAM IN THIS MOVIE FAR MORE THAN SNAKE EYES. Old wasn't scary at all just shitty A.F and so bloody ridiculous. I didn't care for any of those characters and didn't feel the family dynamics at all!!! Feel so angry and ashamed at myself for spending $25 for a VIP Cineplex ticket for this shit. The theater was almost packed now that they removed social distancing protocols with the reserved seating booking and all and while everyone was quiet, patient and professional throughout the movie watching experience IT WAS STILL 1 of my WORST MOST UNCOMFORTABLE theater experiences simply BECAUSE OF HOW SHITTY THE MOVIE WAS! How the hell did the studio greenlight this shit and can't believe they got some talented actors to say yes to this shit! Man I am scared for the Green Knight now!
Oh man and this looked phenomenal!
WHOA. The Robert guy on the right has what appears to be 12" Seven Samurai ? figures on the shelf to the left ?!!! I MUST KNOW MORE.
G.I. Joe Origins meaning the lead characters origin John. Wow
Not going to see it due to the distracting shakey cam. I thought the second and third Bourne movies taught studios we don't like it. Also there's been a year and a half of time to fix the movie. And if there wasn't then stall the release date. I wouldn't notice if it were delayed a few weeks. I'll wait until it streams online.
“GI Joe Origins”is in reference to Snake Eyes being a Joe, not the Joes themselves.
They still shouldn’t have put that because the connections to G.I. Joe and Cobra were a big detriment to the film. I think Baroness and Scarlett should’ve been relegated to post-credits scenes, kinda how I felt the revelation of The Doctor becoming Cobra Commander should’ve been placed as a post-credits scene in The Rise of Cobra.
“That’s a shame” -Jerry Seinfeld
Honestly I'm more shocked at how many people were actually excited to go see this movie than I am at how bad it was.
Disappointing and a waste... This was not even Snake Eyes. I was expecting more from this but 🤷🏽♂️
Just literally watched it. As a movie freak, I already have this feeling when i watched the trailer.
It's a BAD MOVIE (STORYLINE, CHARACTERS, for FEW CAST, AND THE CHARACTERS MOTIVE)
Snake eyes is a Stupid guy. Don't he think that he can find his father killer himself, or use the Tommy power to JUST find the murderer of his father?
I confused with the Snake MOTIVE that change so many times (So the other Joe members, and yet they are really really ACCEPTANCE for his mistakes and flaws, like WHAAAATT...) and YES, Snake is STUPID.
Cmon, you dont cast A RIDICULOUS GOOD LOOKING GUY to cover him in a mask (In this context of BEING SNAKE EYES that will fully face cover)
Bad cast for Henry as a Snake eyes, REALLY?? oh God he really lack of CHARISMA as Snake eyes and he really BAD with martial arts. Henry is good only as he holding gun and acting (So far, as a asian Mafia in 'the Gentlemen' ).
Ohh.. Christ sake, Samara Weaving as Scarlet, and The Baroness REALLY JUST AS EYE CANDY ON THIS MOVIE, they don't even have a right character and proportion on this 2HOURS MOVIE!!!!
For TOMMY as STORM SHADOW, oh i really LOVE his character, REALLY REALLY CHARISMATIC, as a man that hold the burden of Arashikage clan and someone who have darkside, he REALLY SHOW it all. Shame the storyline is F' up.
2HOURS MOVIE AND STILL CAN'T MADE THE STORY ABOUT SNAKE EYES DECISION TO SILENT??!!! For god sake!!
Its still better the GI Joe 1&2 for overall compares to this movie.
Shaky cam is a way to conceal the actors' inability to pull off the fight scenes.
I didn’t mind this movie until after that girl got screwed over and then joined them to fight 🤣 after that they lost me, but That beginning fight scene in the cage was unwatchable and they cleaned it up a bit throughout so it wasn’t giving me motion sickness, but I don’t understand how they thought that was cool! The person editing this movie must’ve had to take a break from his monitor because that shit was nauseating. They also could’ve given snake eyes his suit after the third challenge and then trained him to be this bad ass swordsman but instead they made everyone else around him kick his ass and he still didn’t die and then gave him his suit 15 seconds before it ended when we don’t even know if theyre making a sequel because if this movie bombs they might scrap it and that 15 seconds is all we could see and that’s disappointing because snake eyes is fucking sick
Thanks Jhon u always keep it real blessings from 🇬🇧
The problem with this movie was it had a thematic message that it never delivered. How does a dishonorable man become honorable? How does an untrustworthy outsider become trustworthy. How does a man consumed with vengeance evolve towards a greater purpose? The movie presents these questions but they only give us half answers.
John you make me wanna see the movie, just to see if it’s that bad lol
Lol I agree, I had zero interest in this, but now I’m morbidly curious to see the thing that set off this rant.
This movie review was absolutely 😂
This might be random and unnecessary but wouldn’t it be cool if they made a movie on just storm shadow now wether it’s just with Andrew Koji or doing a movie with him and byung hun lee the original storm shadow and just have them together in the story by having the story revolve around the present storm shadow then go with the past storm shadow like in a back and forth story between the past and the present.
"Epileptic monkey"
😂😂😂😂😂
2020 Snake Eyes fan film was pretty damn good 👍 If you real fans are hurting.
For me the shaky cam was bad but the movie got better in the third act , like the action got a lot better
This is coming out too many years after the G.I. Joe movies for me to care. I'll go see Shang-Chi and catch this on cable
You’re better off doing that.
Post-credit scene IN TRAILER? Talk about bad marketing. LOL!
I mean if you want to call it a post credit scene. It literally comes on within 25 seconds of the last scene of the movie
the best movie since Space Jam