Duke, who has a natural born talent and is strongly decisive, is a lieutenant of a special force. He lost all of his men by attack from unknown force while he did the mission to carry a high tech weapon, which had an ability to destroy everything. This unknown force, named Cobra is threatening the peace of the world. For breaking this unknown force, G.I. Joe, which is composed of the world’s best elite members, is activated and Duke comes to in this force as well.
Frankly speaking, this is a very simple story showing that good always wins, though its attractions are diverse and exotic. However, as far as I know, this movie that was directed by Stephen Sommers, is based on the kids’ toy like Transformer. G.I. Joe is a toy series that was released by Hasbro in 1964. Then Marble Comics published it as a comic book and again produced as TV series in 1985. Likewise, G.I. Joe is one of the most popular stories in the U.S. that I’ve come to know recently. At one other point, this movie became the talk of the whole country in Korea because the character ‘Storm Shadow’ was played by a Korean actor, ByungHeon Lee. One day, I’ve heard through a TV program that the producer team called him ‘Byung’ in shooting because they thought it was his name. However, they seemed not to know that ‘Byung’ means ‘disease’ in Korea. Anyway, ByungHeon Lee is very popular in Asia as much as Elvis in the U.S. In this work, it’s not sure if Storm Shadow, played by ByungHeon, was dead or not because he just fell down to the water and disappeared. Through this, I expect he’s going to appear again in the next episode.
From the official web site of this movie, I found a few interesting things about this movie. Firstly, this work was shot in many places like America, Norway, and Prague, where the intro was shot. The director, Stephen Sommers, shows pyramids in his movies all the time since he believes that Egypt is a place of luck. Secondly, the stunt man, who plays in the car chasing scene and shows fantastic driving in Paris, has very odd experience. He was a notorious bank burglar in 1960 and became a stunt man after coming out from prison. Most of the scenes were depicted in front of a blue screen and then special effects with computer graphics were added. Therefore, the fighting scenes are very splendid, like acrobatics.
From the subtitle, I could guess a sequel to this work might happen. I believe the producer calculated a sequel in the first place and I’m waiting for it!
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