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Review: Snake Eyes ...

Review: Snake Eyes

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00961

I received some promo material and a digital copy of the Snake Eyes G.I.JOE Origins movie. Opinions are my own.

Snake Eyes from G.I.JOE is a fan favorite and when the first couple of live action G.I.JOE movies came out fans were a bit disappointed in them. Me, I enjoyed the first one, wasn’t a huge fan of the second one for killing off major characters. Snake Eyes did look cool, though. they had the amazing Ray Park as the silent master. The most recent movie is a stand alone for the origin of Snake Eyes. In all honesty, I didn’t love it as a G.I.JOE movie but I did enjoy it for the action sequences. Some really amazing fighting sequences were done for this movie and they looked amazing. However, there are some major points to the Snake Eyes story that I don’t feel they hit very well. Snake Eyes, at least for me, never really gets to that level of amazing though any work at the Arashikage clan’s compound. Then the place looks like it is in the modern world but there are miles and miles of forests and more. It was so strange. I understand that Snake Eyes wasn’t always the silent master that he becomes but why doesn’t he even become the silent master? What about his need for his signature mask? Those sorts of things I couldn’t get behind because I could not let go of my childhood knowledge of who the character is. He wasn’t the Snake Eyes that I’d come to know and love.

The movie does set up a possible reboot of the G.I.JOE series and I do hope that they continue to make some more. Maybe get closer to the source material in the future. What I’d really love to see is a Shipwreck G.I.JOE Origins and have it star Bruce Campbell. I’d like to see a later years Shipwreck added to the G.I.Joe Mix. that would be so much fun. Make it humorous. Shipwreck was always the comic relief. Make him that for this universe.
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