10 Terrible Films That Are Actually Awesome
2. G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
Even for a movie produced in association with Hasbro (and released in the same summer as Transformers 2) G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra is a no-brainer of epic proportions. In a plot that fails to make sense at every turn, cackling villain Christopher Eccleston (with a dubious Scottish accent) steals four nuclear warheads and ends up destroying the Eiffel Tower. Oh and there’s a plot to replace the US President with a double, too.
The movie doesn’t make a lick of sense, but boy does it move. Hurtling from one set piece to the next, it throws in ninjas, jet packs, a military base under a polar ice cap and Sienna Miller in a bad wig and Sexy Librarian glasses. Best of all are the “accelerator suits” that allow Channing Tatum and Marlon Wayans to leap over cars and jump through walls while pursuing bad guys.
Like all the best bad movies that are secretly awesome, it’s so sincere that you’re not sure if it knows how ridiculous it is. Probably not: there are characters named Dr Mindbender, Baron de Cobray and Heavy Duty, after all.