I went to see it.  I just wanted to see how they would take the comic book and show and turn it into a movie. It was OK IMO.

The storyline was about what we've come to expect for action films.  Not too complicated or anything.  I don't expect as much from an action film as I do a suspense film or a high caliber film.

For me, I think I wanted to see the action sequences and what advances they made with the digital effects.

Speaking of which. what did you all think of the digital effects?

Quoted from BlazingStar The storyline was about what we've come to expect for action films.  Not too complicated or anything.  I don't expect as much from an action film as I do a suspense film or a high caliber film. For me, I think I wanted to see the action sequences and what advances they made with the digital effects. Speaking of which. what did you all think of the digital effects?

You just summed the movie up. Nothing new, nothing special.

The effects are always top notch but we need some substance in order to say that these types of movies are needed.

Some try and others copy the formula that sells tickets opening weekend. For all the grief Hancock gets at least it tried to disrupt the basic formula of this genre.

Even My Super Ex-Girlfriend deserves more credit.

The WORST film of the Summer. Normally I would say "I don't know where to begin..." (when everything is downright awful), but this movie is an exception. For a film that had a $125 million dollar budget, there was no excuse for the CGI to look as bad as it did. There was even crappy CGI effects in scenes which did not need CGI effects to begin with (ie a CGI car was inserted for an overhead shot of a car driving up to a mansion). In all honesty, this movie had the worst CGI I've seen in a very long time. CGI aside, the movie was still cr**. The story was paper thin, the acting was hokey, the direction was mediocre, etc etc. Even the one liners (if you can call them that) were bad.  Don't waste your time renting this film, even if you were an avid GI Joe fan.

The only thing I liked about the movie was the transitions between the above ground ground action to the under water action. That and the fact that I saw it in Japan and I didn't mind a small taste of America.

I didnt think there could be a more noisy and outright dumb film than Transformers 2 this summer until GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra came around.

Quoted from albinopenguin $125 million dollar budget

About the budget, not trying to correct what you said but the budget was $175 M, so that's a waste for that much money

Quoted from albinopenguin For a film that had a $125 million dollar budget, there was no excuse for the CGI to look as bad as it did. There was even crappy CGI effects in scenes which did not need CGI effects to begin with (ie a CGI car was inserted for an overhead shot of a car driving up to a mansion). In all honesty, this movie had the worst CGI I've seen in a very long time. CGI aside, the movie was still cr**. The only thing I liked about the movie was the transitions between the above ground ground action to the under water action. That and the fact that I saw it in Japan and I didn't mind a small taste of America.

I totally agree.  I just thought that a lot of the digital effects were a little weak.  The underground action and the whole world that they created under the desert and the ice was pretty cool.