she married a baron, a noted scientist who is brilliant but doesn’t think to question his wife’s long absences or her dominatrix outfits. Sienna Miller plays a dark-haired vixen called the Baroness because. In this case, there’s a nefarious quartet at work. Now on to the bad guys and the whole “Who will control the world and who will make it into the sequel” question, which the filmmakers are not shy about revealing: He’s in, he’s a goner, she’s definitely a keeper. (But then with the international box office often accounting for more than half of an action film’s revenue stream, you can imagine how quickly that battle, if there was one, was won.)
This may sound like an unforgivable complaint, but the film actually suffers from its lack of xenophobia, which may do its part for world peace but doesn’t help intensify a cold-or-hot war. Joe, if 12 inches of plastic action figure can be said to have a raison d’etre. That one decision strips away virtually all of the American hero sensibility that was the entire raison d’etre for G.I. Making the Joes global, though, is a risk. Guess which one is the redheaded bombshell? You know this because some have British accents, others dress like ninjas and they all have cool names like Snake Eyes, Breaker, Heavy Duty and Scarlett. The rest of the elite team that Duke will lead into battle is composed of hand-picked specialists from the international scene. 1 Joe, and Ripcord, Duke’s “I can fly anything” comic relief, who actually is, thanks to Marlon Wayans’ playing him with as much nuance as a comic book-action hero adaptation will allow. In fact, the only guys who feel like real Joes are Duke, Channing Tatum’s No. Now!” He’s also got an assistant named Cover Girl, a runway model-turned-spy who would have you believe she’s not just another pretty face in this man’s army. Hawk, who runs the super-secret Joe project, loves his Joes, as in “I’ve got 200 Joes out there, we’ve got to do something. The next thing to keep in mind is that Dennis Quaid’s Gen.