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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
2009 · Directed by Stephen Sommers · 118 min · Adventure · Action · Thriller · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 8 frames
Tagline
When all else fails, they don't.
Plot
Weapons master James McCullen has created a nanotech-based weapon—nanobots that can rapidly devour any non-organic materials. His company M.A.R.S. sells four warheads to NATO, and American soldiers Duke and Ripcord are tasked to deliver them. En route, their convoy is ambushed by the Baroness, whom Duke recognizes as his ex-fiancée Ana Lewis, before they are rescued by G.I. Joe operatives: Scarlett, Snake Eyes, Breaker, and Heavy Duty. They take the warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe's command center in Egypt. G.I. Joe leader General Hawk lets Duke and Ripcord join the Joes after Duke reveals that he knows the Baroness.
McCullen is revealed to be using the same nanotechnology to build an army of soldiers with the aid of the mysterious masked Doctor, planning on using the warheads to cause worldwide panic and bring about a new world order. Storm Shadow and the Baroness, with help from Zartan, infiltrate the G.I. Joe base and steal the warheads. They take the warheads to Baron DeCobray, the Baroness's husband, to weaponize in his particle accelerator; after which, DeCobray is killed. The Joes pursue the Baroness and Storm Shadow in Paris as they launch one of the nanobot missiles. The missile hits the Eiffel Tower, destroying it, before Duke hits the kill switch, in the process being captured and taken to McCullen's base under the Arctic. The Joes pursue them as McCullen loads the three remaining warheads onto missiles aimed for Beijing, Moscow, and Washington, D.C..
Snake Eyes takes out one missile and Ripcord destroys the remaining two. Snake Eyes duels and defeats Storm Shadow, his childhood nemesis. Duke learns that the Doctor is actually Rex Lewis, Ana's brother, believed to have been killed by a mistimed airstrike during a mission led by Duke. Duke's guilt over Rex's death caused his breakup with Ana. Rex had encountered Dr. Mindbender and was fascinated by the nanomite technology, but was caught in the bombing, which disfigured him. Rex had implanted his sister with nanomites, putting her under his control as The Baroness. Attempting to kill Duke, McCullen ends up burned, and Rex and McCullen flee to an escape vessel. The Joes fall back after Rex activates the base's self-destruct sequence, causing the ice cap to explode.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Paul Lovett, David Elliot, Stuart Beattie
- Cinematography: Mitchell Amundsen
- Edited by: Bob Ducsay, Kelly Matsumoto, Jim May
- Music: Alan Silvestri
- Production design: Ed Verreaux
- Produced by: Brian Goldner, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bob Ducsay
Cast
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Heavy Duty
- Christopher Eccleston as McCullen / Destro
- Lee Byung-hun as Storm Shadow
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as The Doctor / Rex
- Sienna Miller as Ana Lewis / Baroness
- Rachel Nichols as Scarlet
- Ray Park as Snake Eyes
- Jonathan Pryce as U.S. President
- Saïd Taghmaoui as Breaker
- Channing Tatum as Duke
Production
- Country: United States of America, Czech Republic, France, Japan
- Language: English, French, Gaelic
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, di Bonaventura Pictures, Hasbro
- Budget: $175,000,000
- Box office: $302,500,000
- Themes: government, technology, hostage, laser, warhead, president, revenge, murder, attack, terrorism
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