Snake Eyes (2021) Movie | Henry Golding, Andrew Koji & Úrsula Corberó | Review & Facts

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film is directed by Robert schwenke from a screen play by Evan spiliotopoulos Joe shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse it serves as an origin story for the Title Character while also being a reboot of the film series the film stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes with Andrew Koji Ursula corbo Samra weaving and E oise supporting roles the project was first announced in May 2018 with Golding being cast in the title role in August 2019 and the rest of the cast joining in subsequent months after initial filming took place in Vancouver in Japan from October 2019 to February 2020 re-shoot took place in March 2021 Snake Eyes was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on July 23rd 2021 the film received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics and only gross $40 million worldwide against an 88110 million budget making it a box office bomb plot living on the run a young boy and his father are found by their Sinister pursuers forced to roll dice to determine his fate the father is murdered After Rolling double ones but his son escapes 20 years later the boy has adopted the name snake eyes and is discovered by Yakuza boss Kenta takamura competing in an underground fighting circuit with the promise of help finding his father's killer he agrees to join kenta's criminal organization and is asked to execute a man who infiltrated the Gang but helps him Escape instead the man is kenta's cousin Tommy who reveals that they were both in line to lead the arashikage clan an ancient ninja Society banished after trying to have Tommy killed Kenta still seeks control of the clan grateful to Snake Eyes Tommy brings him to his family's dojo in Tokyo to be initiated Tommy's grandmother sin the the Clan's current leader agrees to let Snake Eyes undergo three trials to prove his worth in his first test Snake Eyes is unable to seize a bowl of water from the Clan's hard Master realizing this is a test of humility he succeeds by respectfully asking instead unbeknownst to the clan Snake Eyes has been tasked by Kenta with betraying Tommy their escape was staged to allow Snake Eyes to win Tommy's trust and to steal the Clan's sacred jewel of the Sun the Clan's head of security Akiko distrusts Snake Eyes but she accompanies him and Tommy on a raid of kenta's gang they learn through an ally major Scarlet O'Hara that Kenta is allied with a terrorist organization cobra snake eyes confronts Kenta and his Cobra liaison the baroness who War warns that stealing the jewel is the only way they will lead him to his father's killer the Clan's blind Master administers snake ey's second test a vision of his father and he bonds with Akiko after telling her about his father's death for his final trial he faces the Clan's gigantic sacred anacondas sensing he is not truly pure of heart the snake's attack but he is saved by Akiko Snake Eyes conceals his deception but is expelled from the clan he bids farewell to Tommy as Blood Brothers but breaks into the Clan's Temple that night subduing Akiko and stealing the jewel he delivers it to Kenta who agrees to give it to COBRA once he has used it to take over the arashi KAG Snake Eyes receives his reward his father's killer the former Cobra agent and forces him to roll his own dice but spares his life and returns to warn the arashikage Tommy puts aside his anger when Snake Eyes comes to his Aid as Kenta uses the Jewel's fiery magical powers to lay waste to the dojo Scarlet arrives to fight off kenta's men but she and Sen are captured a power hungry Kenta refuses to hand over the jewel prompting the baroness to agree to a temporary alliance with scarlet and the clan with his men defeated Kenta loses the jewel to Tommy who tries to use its power to kill him Kenta escapes but Snake Eyes traps them both in the Anaconda pit where Kenta is devoured the snakes now judge Snake Eyes as pure of heart worthy of joining the clan sen strips Tommy of his Birthright for breaking the family's vow never to use the jewel forsaking the clan and blaming Snake Eyes Tommy vows to kill him should they ever meet again as Snake Eyes sets out to find him Akiko gives him a black outfit and helmet and Scarlet informed Snake Eyes that his father was a member of in International peacekeeping Organization gii Joe and invites him to become a fellow Joe the baroness invites Tommy to join Cobra and he declares a new name for himself Storm Shadow cast Henry Golding as Snake Eyes a lone fighter with a mysterious past known only as Snake Eyes who is recruited into the secretive Clan or rashik the events of the film portray the character prior to becoming the heroic masked agent of the G Joe organization the character was drastically changed to accommodate a new background motivation and ethnicity Max archal plays the young Snake Eyes Andrew Koji as Tommy Storm Shadow a skilled member and the heir of the arishi kagi clan and snake ey's friend and brother in arms who will eventually become his Archen enemy Ursula corbero as baroness an elite operative at Cobra a terrorist organization who is second only to Cobra Commander Samara weaving as Scarlet an elite agent an Army Major in GI Joe and Aly of the arashikage clan Haruka ABI as Akiko the arashi Kaji Clan's head of security who forges a deep tie to Snake Eyes takahiro Hira esenta Tommy's cousin a member of Cobra who seeks control of the arasaki clan box office Snake Eyes gross $ 28.3 million in the United States and Canada and 11.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $4.1 million with a production budget of at least 88 million the film needed to gross $60 to $175 million in order to break even critical response on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 35% of 145 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 4.91 the website's consensus reads far from silent and not particularly deadly snake eyes serves as a step up for the gii Joe franchise thanks in no small part to Henry golding's work in the title role Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100 based on 32 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audience pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B on an A plus to f scale how is it possible that the American Ninja spy movie Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is more Drey than goofy isn't this An Origin story for an action figure whose signature attributes are his cool extreme sports outfit complete with black visor bike helmet his lack of speech he's a mute and his cool sword Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is only sometimes as cheerfully silly as that sounds as in an early scene where a pack of yakaza gangsters stick a few dozen swords into a truck driven by Henry golding's Title Character but more often than not Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is a dire checklist of cliches that were all already Gathering Moss Back in the 1980s when gii Joe was a popular children's cartoon Snake Eyes must avenge his father Steven allerik who was executed by an assassin Samuel finsy on behalf of Cobra a cabal of flamboyantly dressed terrorists Snake Eyes would do anything to catch his father's killer even betray his buddy Tommy Storm Shadow Arash Andrew koi the main heir to the clandestine arashikage ninja Clan but to gain Tommy's trust Snake Eyes must impress Tommy's family by passing a series of ninja trials involving giant snakes and a magic Rock somehow despite all this giddy silliness Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is somehow not a romp but rather a snooze how could this happen mostly because the filmmakers are committed to but never invested in the values and identity of a comic book anti-hero whose main appeal is a strong silent type shtick a little usually goes a long way with snake eyes because as with the other gii Joe characters there isn't much to the character Beyond some buzzy kid-friendly umbrella Concepts like loyalty and honesty so Snake Eyes big test of character is will he sell Tommy out to Kenta takahiro Kira a disgraced member of the arashikage clan in exchange for information about his father's killer the answer will absolutely not surprise you but that's almost beside the point the real problem with with Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins is that it answers a question nobody wondered about and with dismally overproduced dialogue and action film making it's too polished to be a war crime but it's also too bland to be a decent Summer movie a lot of dialogue in Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins puffs up a convoluted story about stick figure characters who wander around found formerly exotic locations the neon lit alleys of Shinjuku a ninja fort's willowy cherry blossom fil Courtyard and talk at length about betraying and or testing each other everybody has a belabored Andor sassy answer to each other's questions like who's Cobra what's a GI Joe why do you want to befriend Tommy so badly and do you think we can trust this Snake Eyes Guy there's also not Much Chemistry Between the movies leads partly because they don't seem to share screen time for more than a second or two at a time also the action scenes are not only diminished by headache inducing handheld photography don't bother seeing this in IMAX but also cribed ideas from Superior action films like the villainous and the Matrix Reloaded p tendering to younger viewers isn't anything new or inherently evil but Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins takes too much time and demands so much energy just to throw together a bunch of hacky tropes that don't necessarily hang together I mean we are talking about a movie that starts with Snake Eyes stuffing an Uzi into the guts of a very large fish because how else are you going to smuggle weapons in the 21st century later a sightless ninja called Blind Master Peter Mena reveals that he owns camouflage fabric that allows him to blend into a stone wall and somewhere in between these two scenes is a barely coherent sparring match that pits Golding against Indonesian martial artist EO uise the Raid Redemption [Music] headshot who plays a hottie ninja named hard Master there are many other Gonzo ideas and scenes that could have been fun to look at in Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins but very few of them are actually entertaining pandering to Children isn't exactly new especially when it comes to big budget movies designed to oversell the importance of action figures but what's the point if in any given scene the best thing that can be said about what you're looking at is well they tried going through the motions is also not always the worst film making sin but it kind of is in a big budget spectacular that only ever looks adequately staged and blocked talk up the ritualized importance of family and H all you want but if there's nothing on screen that's eye-catching enough to Warrant all that self-serious talk that can be pretty deadly for all the snobbery over fast food McDonald's commands a certain respect for the uniformity and consistency of its products the reassuring knowledge that a Big Mac will taste the same in Spain South Africa or Switzerland but the odd American Tourist who decides to use a lunch abroad to investigate a foreign run Mickey D's franchise will find that while the menu Staples remain unaltered subtle additions have snuck their way onto those illuminated boards above the counter in Japan for example Intrepid lowbrow Foodies can sample such local Delicacies as the shrimp Patty AB filt or the sauce drizzled chocolate fries it's all comfortingly familiar in its slight novelty just different enough to add mild flavor to the mange of sameness that's the long and short of the new Snake Eyes a largely interchangeable hunk of Hollywood product somewhat distinguished by its Asiatic Regional particulars Robert schwenke's film arrives as both spin-off in prequel to a pair of Rah raw action GI Joe pictures featurelength toy advertisements from 2019 and 2013 long enough ago that no one's beholden to an elaborate architecture of continuity which must be buttressed and expanded the background of Team Joe's resident ninja Snake Eyes Henry Golding takes the shape of a martial arts showcase informed by both Japanese geki and Chinese wiia Cinemas an opao melding for a film set in Tokyo featuring Malaysian and Indonesian actors and primed for release in the lucrative Chinese market the international language uniting this panasian transpacific affair is the Beatdown delivered here with an inventive playfulness albeit with an impact Lesson by Leen Western techniques the early years of the boy who would be Snake Eyes go by the genres book lighting a fire of Vengeance in his young heart with a vicious attack that claims his father's life cut to 20 years later and he's still nurturing that Grudge so bent on retribution that he's willing to play double agent for the nefarious Cobra Syndicate just to get a shot at Dad's killer he infiltrated Ates the elite arashikage clan on behalf of Kenta takahiro Hera The Prodigal Son once positioned for the top spot Now intent on taking it by force as is part and parcel to this narrative tradition honor and self-discipline will be weighed against hubris and rage honor will be tested we know the deal as well as snake knows his way around to Katana the plot ultimately hinges on a magic Jewel that can blow stuff up nice and big just one illustration of how a script reliant on time tested tropes can turn out underdone regardless the characters are sketched with thin functional Strokes all doing and no being while the terminally uncool dialogue refers to a climactic fight as the party technical accomplishment is supposed to be the draw in a setup like this a bargain that schwen cannot fulfill the bloodless PG-13 death strikes Never Land with a satisfying force a hollow echoed in a drab CGI set piece pitting Snake Eyes against three oversized serpents despite the undeniable movie star pole exuded by Henry Golding he looks like a pretty boy dabbler next to cast stocked with veteran hand toand experts like eek uise Andrew Koji and Peter Mena maybe the shamanic blind Master played by Mena could sustain a spin-off of his own in eight more years like a presidential term an effort to obscure that much might explain all the nauseating handheld shooting which chops the choreography to bits until the stilled more orderly final Reckoning picture Alec Baldwin and Glen Gary Glenn Ross chewing out the cinematographer bojan bazelli put the camera down the inelegant in-your-face treatment of a graceful form halfway between boxing and chess betrays the American Studio systems crude approximation of the genuine article just as snake eyes first learns the steps of sparring without tapping into the Warrior's Spirit his film can adopt the markers of martial arts Classics while missing the parts that contain their soul the scripts attempts at wisdom amount to little more than dim store platitudes and the intern assign turmoil of the arashikage clan never comes close to anything like emotional heft the flying fists may make this a relative anomaly for the multiplex release calendar but that should be understood as the faintest possible praise an acknowledgement that we're looking at one of the more interesting varieties a boring movie anybody with Curiosities peaked can watch one of the Dozen Superior Alternatives coming out of Asia on a yearly basis demonstrations of how gratifying middle brow action can can be in more capable hands this was the promise of a globalized cinema landscape now in doubt that the planet's best would be spread for all to enjoy rather than mediocrities customized and shipped worldwide Snake Eyes gii Joe origins or simply Snake Eyes is a 2021 American superhero film Loosely based on Hasbro's GI Joe toy line character Snake Eyes it is the third installment in the GI Joe film series the film is directed by Robert schwenke from a screenplay by Evan spiliotopoulos Joe shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse it serves as an origin story for the Title Character while also being a reboot of the film series the film stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes with Andrew coji Ursula Cor Samra weaving and E oise in supporting roles the project was first announced in May 2018 with Golding being cast in the title role in August 2019 and the rest of the cast joining in subsequent months after initial filming took place in Vancouver in Japan from October 2019 to February 2020 re- shoots took place in March 2021 AK eyes was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on July 23rd 2021 the film received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics and only grossed $40 million worldwide against an 88110 million budget making it a box office bomb plot living on the run a young boy and his father are found by their sinister pursuers ERS forced to roll dice to determine his fate the father is murdered After Rolling double ones but his son escapes 20 years later the boy has adopted the name snake eyes and is discovered by Yakuza boss Kenta takamura competing in an underground fighting circuit with the promise of help finding his father's killer he agrees to join kenta's criminal organization and and is asked to execute a man who infiltrated the gang but helps him Escape instead the man is kenta's cousin Tommy who reveals that they were both in line to lead the arashikage clan an ancient ninja Society banished after trying to have Tommy killed Kenta still seeks control of the clan grateful to Snake Eyes Tommy brings him to his family's dojo in Tokyo to be initi at Tommy's grandmother sin the Clan's current leader agrees to let Snake Eyes undergo three trials to prove his worth in his first test Snake Eyes is unable to seize a bowl of water from the Clan's hard Master realizing this is a test of humility he succeeds by respectfully asking instead unbeknownst to the clan Snake Eyes has been tasked by Kenta with betraying Tommy their escape was staged to allow Snake Eyes to win Tommy's trust and to steal the Clan's sacred jewel of the Sun the Clan's head of security Akiko distrusts Snake Eyes but she accompanies him and Tommy on a raid of kenta's gang they learn through an ally major Scarlet O'Hara that Kenta is allied with a terrorist organization cobra snake eyes confronts k and his Cobra liazon the baroness who warns that stealing the jewel is the only way they will lead him to his father's killer the Clan's blind Master administers Snake Eyes second test a vision of his father and he bonds with Akiko after telling her about his father's death for his final trial he faces the Clan's gigantic sacred anacondas sensing he is not truly pure of heart the snakes attack but he is saved by Akiko Snake Eyes conceals his deception but is expelled from the clan he bids farewell to Tommy as Blood Brothers but breaks into the Clan's Temple that night subduing Akiko and stealing the jewel he delivers it to Kenta who agrees to give it to COBRA once he has used it to take over the arashi kog Snake Eyes receives his reward his father's killer a former Cobra agent and forces him to roll his own dice but spares his life and returns to warn the arashikage Tommy puts aside his anger when Snake Eyes comes to his Aid as Kenta uses the Jewel's fiery magical powers to lay waste to the dojo Scarlet arrives to fight off kenta's men but she and Sen are captured a power hungry Kenta refuses to hand over the jewel prompting the baroness to agree to a temporary alliance with scarlet and the clan with his men defeated Kenta loses the jewel to Tommy who tries to use its power to kill him Kenta escapes but Snake Eyes traps them both in the Anaconda pit where Kenta is devoured the snakes now judge Snake Eyes as pure of heart worthy of joining the clan sen strips Tommy of his Birthright for breaking the family's vow never to use the jewel forsaking the clan and blaming Snake Eyes Tommy vows to kill him should they ever meet again as Snake Eyes sets out to find him Aiko gives him a black outfit and helmet and scar charlet informed Snake Eyes that his father was a member of international peacekeeping organization G Joe and invites him to become a fellow Joe the baroness invites Tommy to join Cobra and he declares a new name for himself Storm Shadow cast Henry Golding as Snake Eyes a lone fighter with a mysterious past known only as snake eyes who is recruited into the secretive Clan of rashik the events of the film portray the character prior to becoming the heroic masked agent of the gii Joe organization the character was drastically changed to accommodate a new background motivation and ethnicity Max archal plays the young Snake Eyes Andrew Koji as Tommy Storm Shadow a skilled member and the heir of the irishi kagi clan and Snake Eyes friend and brother in arms who will eventually become his Archen enemy Ursula corbero as baroness an elite operative at Cobra a terrorist organization who is second only to Cobra Commander samaro weaving as Scarlet an elite agent and Army Major in gii Joe and Aly of the arashikage clan Haruka ABI as [Music] Akiko the arashi Kaji Clan's head of security who forges a deep tie to Snake Eyes takahiro Hira es Kenta Tommy's cousin a member of Cobra who seeks control of the arasaki clan box off Snake Eyes gross $ 28.3 million in the United States and Canada and 11.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $4.1 million with a production budget of at least 88 million the film needed to gross $ 160 to $175 million in order to break even critical response on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 35% of 145 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 4.91 the website's consensus reads far from silent and not particularly deadly snake eyes serves as a step up for the GI Joe franchise thanks in no small part to Henry golding's work in the title role Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100 based on 32 critics in indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B on an A plus to f scale how is it possible that the American Ninja spy movie Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is more dreary than goofy isn't this An Origin story for an action figure whose signature attributes are his cool extreme sports outfit complete with black visor bike helmet his lack of speech he's a mute and his cool sword Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is only sometimes as cheerfully silly as that sounds as in an early scene where a pack of Yakuza gangsters stick a few dozen swords into a truck driven by Henry golding's Title Character but more often than not Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is a dire checklist of cliches that were already Gathering Moss Back in the 1980s when GI Joe was a popular children's cartoon Snake Eyes must avenge his father Steven allerik who was executed by an assassin Samuel finsy on behalf of Cobra a cabal of flamboyantly dressed terrorists Snake Eyes would do anything to catch his father's killer even even betray his buddy Tommy Storm Shadow arashic kog Andrew coochi the main heir to the clandestine arashikage ninja Clan but to gain Tommy's trust Snake Eyes must impress Tommy's family by passing a series of ninja trials involving giant snakes and a magic Rock somehow despite all this giddy silliness snake eyes G Joe Origins is somehow not a romp but rather a snooze how could this happen mostly because the filmmakers are committed to but never invested in the values and identity of a comic book anti-hero whose main appeal is his strong silent type shtick a little usually goes a long way with snake eyes because as with the other gii Joe characters there isn't much to the character Beyond some Buzzy kid-friendly umbrella Concepts like loyalty and honesty so snake ey's big test of character is will he sell Tommy out to Kenta takahiro Kira a disgraced member of the arashikage clan in exchange for information about his father's killer the answer will absolutely not surprise you but that's almost beside the point the real problem with Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins is that it answers a question nobody wondered about and with dismally overproduced dialogue and action film making it's too polished to be a war crime but it's also too bland to be a decent Summer movie a lot of dialogue in Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins puffs up a convoluted story about stick figure characters who wander around formerly exotic locations the neonlit alleys of Shinjuku a ninja forts willowy cherry blossom filed Courtyard and talk at length about betraying and or testing each other everybody has a belabored Andor sassy answer to each other's questions like who's Cobra what's a GI Joe why do you want to befriend Tommy so badly and do you think we can trust this Snake Eyes Guy there's also not Much Chemistry Between the movies leads partly because they don't seem to share screen time for more than a second or two at a time also the action scenes are not only diminished by headache inducing handheld photography don't bother seeing this in IMAX but also cribbed ideas from Superior action films like the villainous and the Matrix Reloaded pandering to younger viewers isn't anything new or inherently evil but Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins takes too much time and demand so much energy just to throw together a bunch of hacky tropes that don't necessarily hang together I mean we are talking about a movie that starts with Snake Eyes stuffing in Uzi into the guts of a very large fish because how else are you going to smuggle weapons in the 21st century later a sightless ninja called Blind Master Peter Mena reveals that he owns camouflage fabric that allows him to blend into a stone wall and somewhere in between these two scenes is a barely coherent sparring match that pits Golding against Indonesia I martial artist eek uise the Raid Redemption headshot who plays a hottie ninja named hard Master there are many other Gonzo ideas and scenes that could have been fun to look at in Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins but very few of them are actually entertaining pandering to Children isn't exactly new especially when it comes to big budget movies designed to oversell the importance of action figures but what's the point if in any given scene the best thing that can be said about what you're looking at is well they tried going through the motions is also not always the worst filmmaking sin but it kind of is in a big budget spectacular that only ever looks adequately staged and blocked talk up the ritualized importance of family and honor all you want but if there's nothing on screen that's eye-catching enough to Warrant all that self-serious talk that can be pretty deadly for all the snobbery over fast food McDonald's commands a certain respect for the uniformity and consistency of its products the reassuring knowledge that a Big Mac will taste the same in Spain South Africa or Switzerland but the odd American Tourist who decides to use a lunch abroad to investigate a foreign run Mickey D's franchise will find that while the menu Staples remain unaltered subtle additions have snuck their way onto those illuminated boards above the counter in Japan for example Intrepid lowbrow Foodies can sample such local delic icies as the shrimp Patty AB filet or the SAU drizzled chocolate fries it's all comfortingly familiar in its slight novelty just different enough to add mild flavor to the mange of sameness that's the long and short of the new Snake Eyes a largely interchangeable hunk of Hollywood product somewhat distinguished by its Asiatic Regional particulars Robert schwenke's film arrives as both spin-off and prequel to a pair of Rah raw action GI Joe pictures featurelength toy advertisements from 2009 and 2013 long enough ago that no one's beholden to an elaborate architecture of continuity which must be buttressed and expanded the background of Team Joe's resident ninja Snake Eyes Henry Golding takes the shape of a martial arts showcase informed by both Japanese jigi and Chinese wiia Cinemas an opera po melding for a film set in Tokyo featuring Malaysian and Indonesian actors and primed for release in the lucrative Chinese market the international language uniting this panasian transpacific affair is the Beatdown delivered here with an inventive playfulness all allbe it with an impact lessened by Len Western techniques the early years of the boy who would be Snake Eyes go by the genre's book lighting a fire of Vengeance in his young heart with a vicious attack that claims his father's life cut to 20 years later and he's still nurturing that Grudge so bent on retribution that he's willing to play double agent for the nefarious Cobra syndicate just to get a shot at Dad's killer he infiltrates the elite arashikage clan on behalf of Kenta takahiro Hira The Prodigal Son once positioned for the top spot Now intent on taking it by force as is part and parcel to this narrative tradition honor and self-discipline will be weighed against hubris and rage honor will be tested we know the deal as well as as snake knows his way around a katana the plot ultimately hinges on a magic Jewel that can blow stuff up nice and big just one illustration of how a script reliant on - tested tropes can turn out underdone regardless the characters are sketched with thin functional Strokes all doing and no being while the terminally uncool dialogue refers to a climactic fight as the party technical accomplishment is supposed to be the draw in a setup like this a bargain that schwen cannot fulfill the bloodless PG-13 death strikes Never Land with a satisfying force a hollow echoed in a drab CGI set piece pitting Snake Eyes against three oversized serpents despite the undeniable movie star pull exuded by Henry Golding he looks like a pretty boy dabbler next to a cast stocked with veteran hand toand experts like EO o Andrew Koji and Peter Mena maybe the shamanic blind Master played by Mena could sustain a spin-off of his own in eight more years like a presidential term an effort to obscure that much might explain all the nauseating handheld shooting which chops the choreography to bits until the stilled more orderly final Reckoning picture Alec Baldwin and Glen Gary Glenn Ross chewing out the cinematographer bojan bazelli put the camera down the inelegant iny yourface treatment of a graceful form halfway between boxing and chess betrays the American Studio systems crude approximation of the genuine article just as Snake Eyes First learns the steps of sparring without tapping into the Warrior's Spirit his film can adopt the markers of martial arts Classics while missing the parts that contain their soul the script's attempts at wisdom amount to little more than dim store platitudes and the inter assign turmoil of the arashikage clan never comes close to anything like emotional heft the flying fists may make this a relative anomaly for the multilex release calendar but that should be understood as the faintest possible praise an acknowledgement that we're looking at one of the more interesting varieties a boring movie anybody with Curiosities peaked can watch one of the Dozen Superior Alternatives coming out of Asia on a yearly basis demonstrations of how gratifying middle brow action can be in more capable hands this was the promise of a globalized cinema landscape now in doubt that the planet's best would be spread for all to enjoy rather than mediocrities customized and shipped worldwide Snake Eyes gii Joe origins or simply Snake Eyes is a t 20 21 American superhero film Loosely based on Hasbro's GI Joe toy line character Snake Eyes it is the third installment in the GI Joe film series the film is directed by Robert schwen from a screen play by Evan spiliotopoulos Joe shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse it serves as an origin story for the Title Character while also being a reboot of the film series the film stars Henry Golden as Snake Eyes with Andrew Koji Ursula corbo Samra weaving and E oise in supporting roles the project was first announced in May 2018 with Golding being cast in the title role in August 2019 and the rest of the cast joining in subsequent months after initial filming took place in Vancouver in Japan from October 2019 to February 2020 shoots took place in March 2021 Snake Eyes was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on July 23rd 2021 the film received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics and only grossed $40 million worldwide against an 88110 million budget making it a box office bomb [Music] plot living on the Run a young boy and his father are found by their Sinister pursuers forced to roll dice to determine his fate the father is murdered After Rolling double ones but his son escapes 20 years later the boy has adopted the name snake eyes and is discovered by Yakuza boss Kenta takamura competing in an underground fighting circuit with the promise of help finding his father's killer he agrees to join kenta's criminal organization and is asked to execute a man who infiltrated the gang but helps him Escape instead the man is kenta's cousin Tommy who reveals that they were both in line to lead the arashikage clan an ancient ninja Society banished after trying to have Tommy killed Kenta still seeks control of the clan grateful to snake eyes Tommy brings him to his family's dojo in Tokyo to be initiated Tommy's grandmother sin the Clan's current leader agrees to let Snake Eyes undergo three trials to prove his worth in his first test Snake Eyes is unable to seize a bowl of water from the Clan's hard Master realizing this is a test of humility he succeeds by respectfully asking instead unbeknownst to the clan Snake Eyes has been tasked by Kenta with betraying Tommy their escape was staged to allow Snake Eyes to win Tommy's trust and to steal the Clan's sacred jewel of the Sun the Clan's head of security Akiko distrusts Snake Eyes but she accompanies him and Tommy on a raid of kenta's gang they learn through an ally major Scarlet O'Hara that Kenta is allied with a terrorist organization cobra snake eyes confronts Kenta and his Cobra liaison the baroness who warns that stealing the jewel is the only way they will lead him to his father's killer the Clan's blind Master administers snake ey's second test a vision of his father and he bonds with Akiko after telling her about his father's death for his final trial he faces the Clan's gigantic sacred anacondas sensing he is not truly pure of heart the snakes attack but he is saved by Akiko Snake Eyes conceals his deception but is expelled from the clan he bids farewell to Tommy as Blood Brothers but breaks into the Clan's Temple that night subduing Akiko and stealing the jewel he delivers it to Kenta who agrees to give it to KOB Cobra once he has used it to take over the arashi Snake Eyes receives his reward his father's killer a former Cobra agent and forces him to roll his own dice but spares his life and returns to warn the arashikage Tommy puts aside his anger when Snake Eyes comes to his Aid as Kenta uses the Jewel's fiery magical powers to lay waste to the dojo Scarlet arrives to fight off kenta's men but she and Sen are captured a power hungry Kenta refuses to hand over the jewel prompting the baroness to agree to a temporary alliance with scarlet and the clan with his men defeated Kenta loses the jewel to Tommy who tries to use its power to kill him Kenta escapes but Snake Eyes traps them both both in the Anaconda pit where Kenta is devoured the snakes now judge Snake Eyes as pure of heart worthy of joining the clan sen strips Tommy of his Birthright for breaking the family's vow never to use the jewel forsaking the clan and blaming Snake Eyes Tommy vows to kill him should they ever meet again as Snake Eyes sets out to find him Aiko gives him a black outfit and helmet and Scarlet informs Snake Eyes that his father was a member of international peacekeeping organization GI Joe and invites him to become a fellow Joe the baroness invites Tommy to join Cobra and he declares a new name for himself Storm Shadow cast Henry Golding as Snake Eyes a lone fighter with a Myer serious past known only as Snake Eyes who is recruited into the secretive Clan or rashik the events of the film portray the character prior to becoming the heroic masked agent of the G Joe organization the character was drastically changed to accommodate a new background motivation and ethnicity Max archal plays the young Snake Eyes Andrew Koji as Tommy Storm Shadow a skilled member and the heir of the irishi kagi clan and Snake Eyes friend and brother in arms who will eventually become his Archen enemy Ursula corbero as baroness an elite operative at Cobra a terrorist organization who is second only to Cobra Commander Samara weaving as Scarlet an elite agent and Army Major in GI Joe and Alley of the arashikage clan Haruka ABI as Akiko the arashi Kaji Clan's head of security who forges a deep tie to Snake Eyes takahiro Hira as Kenta Tommy's cousin a member of Cobra who seeks control of the a rashiki clan box office Snake Eyes gross $ 28.3 million in the United States and Canada and 11.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $4.1 million with a production budget of at least 88 million the film needed to gross 160 to $175 million in order to break even critical response on the review at aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 35% of 145 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 4.91 the website's consensus reads far from silent and not particularly deadly snake eyes serves as a step up for the gii Joe franchise thanks in no small part to Henry golding's work in the title role Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 4 3 out of 100 based on 32 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B on an A plus to f scale how is it possible that the American Ninja spy movie Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is more dreary than goofy isn't this An Origin story for an action figure whose signature attributes are his cool extreme sports outfit complete with black visor bike helmet his lack of speech he's a mute and his cool sword Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is only sometimes as cheerfully silly as that sounds as in an early scene where a pack of yakaza gangsters stick a few dozen swords into a truck driven by Henry golding's Title Character but more often than not Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is a dire checklist of cliches that were already Gathering Moss Back in the 1980s when gii Joe was a popular children's cartoon Snake Eyes must avenge his father Steven allerik who was executed by an assassin Samuel finsy on behalf of Cobra a cabal of flamboyantly dressed terrorists Snake Eyes would do anything to catch his father's killer even betray his buddy Tommy Storm Shadow AR Asik Andrew Koji the main heir to the clandestine arashikage ninja Clan but to gain Tommy's trust Snake Eyes must impress Tommy's family by passing a series of ninja trials involving giant snakes and a magic Rock somehow despite all this giddy silliness Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins is somehow not a romp but rather a snooze how could this happen mostly because the filmmakers are committed to but never invested in the values and identity of a comic book anti-hero whose main appeal is a strong silent type shtick a little usually goes a long way with snake eyes because as with the other gii Joe characters there isn't much to the character Beyond some Buzzy kid-friendly umbrella Concepts like loyalty and honesty so Snake Eyes big test of character is will he sell Tommy out to Kenta takahiro Kira a disgraced member of the arashikage clan in exchange for information about his father's killer the answer will absolutely not surprise you but that's almost beside the point the real problem with Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins is that it answers a question nobody wondered about and with dismally overproduced dialogue and action film making it's too polished to be a war crime but it's also too bland to be a decent Summer movie a lot of dialogue in snake eyes GI Joe Origins puffs up a convoluted story about stick figure characters who wander around formerly exotic locations the neon lit alleys of Shinjuku a ninja fort's willowy cherry blossom filed Courtyard and talk at length about betraying and or testing each other everybody has a belabored Andor sassy answer to each other's questions like who's cobra what's a GI Joe why do you want to befriend Tommy so badly and do you think we can trust this Snake Eyes Guy there's also not Much Chemistry Between the movies leads partly because they don't seem to share screen time for more than a second or two at a time also the action scenes are not only diminished by headache inducing handheld photography don't bother seeing this in IMAX but also cribed ideas from Superior action films like the villainous and the Matrix Reloaded pandering to younger viewers isn't anything new or inherently evil but Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins takes too much time and demands so much energy just to throw together a bunch of hacky tropes that don't necessarily hang together I mean we are talk talking about a movie that starts with Snake Eyes stuffing an Uzi into the guts of a very large fish because how else are you going to smuggle weapons in the 21st century later a sightless ninja called Blind Master Peter Mena reveals that he owns camouflage fabric that allows him to blend into a stone wall and somewhere in between these two scenes is a L coherent sparring match that pits Golding against Indonesian martial artist EO uise the Raid Redemption headshot who plays a hottie ninja named hard Master there are many other Gonzo ideas and scenes that could have been fun to look at in Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins but very few of them are actually entertaining pandering to children isn't exactly new especially when it comes to big budget movies designed to oversell the importance of action figures but what's the point if in any given scene the best thing that can be said about what you're looking at is well they tried going through the motions is also not always the worst film making sin but it kind of is in a big budget spectacular that only ever looks adequately staged and blocked talk up the ritualized importance of family and honor all you want but if there's nothing on screen that's eye-catching enough to Warrant all that self-serious talk that can be pretty deadly for all the snobbery over fast food McDonald's commands a certain respect for the uniformity and consistency of its products the reassuring knowledge that a Big Mac will taste the same in Spain South Africa or Switzerland but the odd American Tourist who decides to use a lunch abroad to investigate a foreign run Mickey D's franchise will find that while the menu Staples remain unaltered subtle additions have snuck their way onto those illuminated boards above the counter in Japan for example Intrepid lowbrow Foodies can sample such local Delicacies as the shrimp Patty AB filt or the sauce drizzled chocolate fries it's all comfortingly familiar in its slight novelty just different enough to add mild flavor to the mange of sameness that's the long and short of the new Snake Eyes a largely interchangeable hunk of Hollywood product somewhat distinguished by its Asiatic Regional particulars Robert schwenke's film arrives as both spin-off and prequel to a pair of raah raw action GI Joe pictures featurelength toy advertisements from 2009 and 2013 long enough ago that no one's beholden to an elaborate architecture of continuity which must be buttressed and expanded the background of Team Joe's resident ninja Snake Eyes Henry Golding takes the shape of a martial arts showcase informed by both Japanese jig geki and Chinese wiia Cinemas an opao melding for a film set in Tokyo featuring Malaysian and Indonesian actors and primed for release in the lucrative Chinese market the international language uniting this panasian transpacific affair is the beatdown delivered here with an inventive playfulness albeit with an impact lessened by Len Western techniques the early years of the boy who would be Snake Eyes go by the genres book lighting a fire of Vengeance in his young heart with a vicious attack that claims his father's life cut to 20 years later and he's still nurturing that Grudge so bent on retribution that he is willing to play double agent for the nefarious Cobra Syndicate just to get a shot at Dad's killer he infiltrates the elite arashikage clan on behalf of Kenta takahiro Hira The Prodigal Son once positioned for the top spot Now intent on taking it by force as is part and parcel to this narrative tradition honor and self-discipline will be weighed against hubris and rage honor will be tested we know the deal as well as snake knows his way around a katana the plot ultimately hinges on a magic Jewel that can blow stuff up nice and big just one illustration of how a script reliant on time tested tropes can turn out underdone regardless the characters are sketched with thin functional Strokes all doing and no being while the terminally uncool dialogue log refers to a climactic fight as the party technical accomplishment is supposed to be the draw in a setup like this a bargain that schwen cannot fulfill the bloodless PG-13 death strikes Never Land with a satisfying force a hollow echoed in a drab CGI set piece pitting Snake Eyes against three oversized serpents despite the undeniable movie star pull exuded by Henry Golding he looks like a pretty boy dabbler next to a cast stocked with veteran hand toand experts like eek uise Andrew Koji and Peter Mena maybe the shamanic blind Master played by Mena could sustain a spin-off of his own in eight more years like a presidential term an effort to obscure that much might explain all the nauseating handheld shooting which chops the choreography to bits until the stilled more orderly final Reckoning picture Alec Baldwin and Glen Gary Glenn Ross chewing out the cinematographer bojan bazelli put the camera down the inelegant in- yourface treatment of a graceful form halfway between boxing and chess betrays the American Studio system's crude approximation of the genuine article just as Snake Eyes First learns the steps of sparring without tapping into the Warrior's Spirit his film can adopt the markers of martial arts Classics while missing the parts that contain their soul the script's attempts at wisdom amount to little more than dim store platitudes and the intern assign turmoil of the arashikage clan never comes close to anything like emotional heft the flying fists may make this a relative anomaly for the multiplex release calendar but that should be understood as the faintest possible praise an acknowledgement that we're looking at one of the more interesting varieties a boring movie anybody with Curiosities peaked can watch one of the Dozen super erior Alternatives coming out of Asia on a yearly basis demonstrations of how gratifying middlebrow action can be in more capable hands this was the promise of a globalized cinema landscape now in doubt that the planet's best would be spread for all to enjoy rather than mediocrities customized and shipped worldwide Snake Eyes G Joe origins or simply Snake Eyes is a 2021 American superhero film Loosely based on Hasbro's gii Joe toy line character Snake Eyes it is the third installment in the gii Joe film series the film is directed by Robert schwenke from a screenplay by Evan spiliotopoulos Joe shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse it serves as an origin story for the Title Character while also being a reboot of the film series the film stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes with Andrew kji Ursula corbero Samra weaving and E uise in supporting roles the project was first announced in May 2018 with Golding being cast in the title role in August 2019 and the rest of the cast joining in subsequent months after initial filming took place in Vancouver in Japan from October 2019 to February 2020 re-shoot took place in March 2021 Snake Eyes was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on July 23rd 2021 the film received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics and only grossed $40 million worldwide against an 88110 million budget making it a box office bomb plot living on the run a young boy and his father are found by their Sinister pursuers forced to roll dice to determine his fate the father is murdered After Rolling double ones but his son escapes 20 years later the boy has adopted the name snake eyes and is discovered by Yakuza boss Kenta takamura competing in an underground fighting circuit with the promise of help finding his father's killer he agrees to join kenta's criminal organization and is asked to execute a man who infiltrated the gang but helps him Escape instead the man is kenta's cousin Tommy who reveals that they were both in line to lead the arashikage clan an ancient ninja Society banished after trying to have Tommy killed Kenta still seeks control of the clan grateful to Snake Eyes Tommy brings him to his family's dojo in Tokyo to be initiated Tommy's grandmother sin the Clan's current leader agrees to let Snake Eyes undergo three trials to prove his worth in his first test Snake Eyes is unable to seize a bowl of water from the Clan's hard Master realizing this is a test of humility he succeeds by respectfully asking instead unbeknownst to the clan Snake Eyes has been tasked by Kenta with betraying Tommy their escape was staged to allow Snake Eyes to win Tommy's trust and to steal the Clan's sacred jewel of the Sun the Clan's head of security Akiko distrusts Snake Eyes but she accompanies him and Tommy on a raid of kenta's gang they learn through an ally by Major Scarlet O'Hara that Kenta is allied with a terrorist organization cobra snake eyes confronts Kenta and his Cobra liazon the baroness who warns that stealing the jewel is the only way they will lead him to his father's killer the Clan's blind Master administers snake ey's second test a vision of his father and he bonds with Akiko after telling her about his father's death for his final trial he faces the Clan's gigantic sacred anacondas sensing he is not truly pure of heart the snakes attack but he is saved by Akiko Snake Eyes conceals his deception but is expelled from the clan he bids farewell to Tommy as Blood Brothers but breaks into the Clan's Temple that night subduing Akiko and stealing the jewel he delivers it to Kenta who agrees to give it to COBRA once he has used it to take over the arashi kach Snake Eyes receives his reward his father's killer a former Cobra agent and forces him to roll his own dice but spares his life and returns to warn the arashikage Tommy puts aside his anger when Snake Eyes comes to his Aid as Kenta uses the jewel fiery magical powers to lay waste to the dojo Scarlet arrives to fight off kenta's men but she and Sen are captured a power hungry Kenta refuses to hand over the jewel prompting the baroness to agree to a temporary alliance with scarlet and the clan with his men defeated Kenta loses the jewel to Tommy who tries to use its power to kill him Kenta escapes but Snake Eyes traps them both in the Anaconda pit where Kenta is devoured the snakes now judge Snake Eyes as pure of heart worthy of joining the clan sen strips Tommy of his Birthright for breaking the family's vow never to use the jewel forsaking the clan and blaming Snake Eyes Tommy vows to kill him should they ever meet again as Snake Eyes sets out to find him Akiko gives him a black outfit and helmet and Scarlet informs Snake Eyes that his father was a member of international peacekeeping organization G Joe and invites him to become a fellow Joe the baroness invites Tommy to join Cobra and he declares a new name for himself Storm Shadow cast Henry Golding as Snake Eyes a lone fighter with a mysterious past known only as Snake Eyes who is recruited into the secretive Clan of rashik the events of the film portray the character prior to becoming the heroic masked agent of the gii Joe organization the character was drastically changed to accommodate a new background motivation and ethnicity Max archol plays the young Snake Eyes Andrew Koji as Tommy Storm Shadow a skilled member and the heir of the irishi kagi clan and Snake Eyes friend and brother in arms who will eventually become his Archen enemy Ursula corbero as baroness an elite operative at Cobra a terrorist organization who is second only to to Cobra Commander Samara weaving as Scarlet an elite agent and Army Major in GI Joe and Aly of the aishik kaj clan Haruka ABI as Akiko the arashi Kaji Clan's head of security who forges a deep tie to Snake Eyes takahiro Hira as Kenta Tommy's cousin a member of Cobra who seeks control of the arashikage clan box office Snake Eyes gross $ 28.3 million in the United States and Canada and 11.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $4.1 million with a production budget of at least 88 million the film needed to gross 160 to $175 million in order to break even critical response on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 35% of 145 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 4.91 the website's consensus reads far from silent and not particularly deadly snake eyes serves as a step up for the GI Joe franchise thanks in no small part to Henry golding's work in the title role Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100 based on 32 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B on an A plus to f scale how is it possible that the American Ninja spy movie Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is more dreary than goofy is isn't this An Origin story for an action figure whose signature attributes are his cool extreme sports outfit complete with black visor bike helmet his lack of speech he's a mute and his cool sword Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is only sometimes as cheerfully silly as that sounds as in an early scene where a pack of yakaza gangsters stick a few dozen swords into a truck driven by Henry golding's Title Character but more often than not Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is a dire checklist of cliches that were already Gathering Moss Back in the 1980s when gii Joe was a popular children's cartoon Snake Eyes must avenge his father Steven allerik who was executed by an assassin Samuel finsy on behalf of Cobra a ball a flamboyantly dressed terrorists Snake Eyes would do anything to catch his father's killer even betray his buddy Tommy Storm Shadow arashi kog Andrew coochi the main heir to the clandestine arashikage ninja Clan but to gain Tommy's trust Snake Eyes must impress Tommy's family by passing a series of ninja trials involving giant snakes and a magic Rock somehow despite all this giddy silliness Snake Eyes G Joe Origins is somehow not a romp but rather a snooze how could this happen mostly because the filmmakers are committed to but never invested in the values and identity of a comic book anti-hero whose main appeal is his strong silent type shtick a little usually goes a long way with snake eyes because as with the other gii Joe characters there isn't much to the character Beyond some Buzzy kid-friendly umbrella Concepts like loyalty and honesty so snake ey's big test of character is will he sell Tommy out to Kenta takahiro Kira a disgraced member of the arashikage CL plan in exchange for information about his father's killer the answer will absolutely not surprise you but that's almost beside the point the real problem with Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins is that it answers a question nobody wondered about and with dismally overproduced dialogue and action film making it's too polished to be a war crime but it's also too bland to be a decent Summer movie a lot of dialogue in Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins puffs up a convoluted story about stick figure characters who wander around formerly exotic locations the neonlit alleys of Shinjuku a ninja forts willowy cherry blossom filled Courtyard and talk at length about betraying and or testing each other everybody has a belabored Andor sad answered to each other's questions like who's Cobra what's a GI Joe why do you want to befriend Tommy so badly and do you think we can trust this Snake Eyes Guy there's also not Much Chemistry Between the movies leads partly because they don't seem to share screen time for more than a second or two at a time also the action scenes are not only diminished by headache inducing handheld photography don't bother seeing this in IMAX but also cribbed ideas from Superior action films like the villainous and the Matrix Reloaded pandering to younger viewers isn't anything new or inherently evil but Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins takes too much time and demand so much energy just to throw together a bunch of hacky tropes that don't necessarily hang together I mean we are talking about a movie that starts with Snake Eyes stuffing an Uzi into the guts of a very large fish because how else are you going to smuggle weapons in the 21st century later a sightless ninja called Blind Master Peter Mena reveals that he owns camouflage fabric that allows him to blend into a stone wall and somewhere in between these two scenes is a barely coherent sparring match that pits Golding against Indonesian martial artist eek oise the Raid Redemption headshot who plays a hottie ninja named hard Master there are many other Gonzo ideas and scenes that could have been fun to look at in Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins but very few of them are actually entertaining pandering to Children isn't exactly new especially when it comes to big budget movies designed to oversell the importance of action figures but what's the point if in any given scene the best thing that can be said about what you're looking at is well they tried going through the motions is also not always the worst film making sin but it kind of is in a big budget spectacular that only ever looks adequately staged and blocked talk up the ritualized importance of family and honor all you want but if there's nothing on screen that's eye-catching enough to Warrant all that self-serious talk that can be pretty deadly for all the snobbery over fast food McDonald's commands a certain respect for for the uniformity and consistency of its products the reassuring knowledge that a Big Mac will taste the same in Spain South Africa or Switzerland but the odd American Tourist who decides to use a lunch abroad to investigate a foreign run Mickey D's franchise will find that while the menu Staples remain unaltered subtle additions have snuck their way onto those illuminated boards above the C counter in Japan for example Intrepid lowbrow Foodies can sample such local delices as the shrimp Patty AB filt or the SAU drizzled chocolate fries it's all comfortingly familiar in its slight novelty just different enough to add mild flavor to the mange of sameness that's the long and short of the new snake eyes a largely interchangeable hunk of Hollywood product somewhat distinguished by its Asiatic Regional particulars Robert schwenke's film arrives as both spin-off and prequel to a pair of raah raw action GI Joe pictures featurelength toy advertisements from 2009 and 2013 long enough ago that no one's beholden to an elaborate architecture of continuity which must be buttress and expanded the background of Team Joe's resident ninja Snake Eyes Henry Golding takes the shape of a martial arts showcase informed by both Japanese jigi and Chinese wiia Cinemas an opera po melding for a film set in Tokyo featuring Malaysian and Indonesian actors and primed for release in the lucrative Chinese market the international language uniting this this Pan Asian transpacific Affair is the Beatdown delivered here with an inventive playfulness albeit with an impact Lesson by Len Western techniques the early years of the boy who would be Snake Eyes go by the genre's book lighting a fire of Vengeance in his young heart with a vicious attack that claims his father's life cut to 20 years later and he still nurturing that Grudge so bent on retribution that he's willing to play double agent for the nefarious Cobra Syndicate just to get a shot at Dad's killer he infiltrates the elite arashikage clan on behalf of Kenta takahiro Hira The Prodigal Son once positioned for the top spot Now intent on taking it by force as is part and parcel to this narrative tradition honor and self-discipline will be weighed against hubris and rage honor will be tested we know the deal as well as snake knows his way around a katana the plot ultimately hinges on a magic Jewel that can blow stuff up nice and big just one illustration of how a script reliant on - tested tropes can turn out underdone regardless the characters are sketched with thin functional Strokes all doing and no being while the terminally uncool dialogue refers to a climactic fight as the party technical accomplishment is supposed to be the draw in a setup like this a bargain that schwen cannot fulfill the bloodless PG-13 death strikes Never Land with a satisfying force a hollow echoed in a drab CGI set piece pitting snake eyes against three oversized serpents despite the undeniable movie star pull exuded by Henry Golding he looks like a pretty boy dabbler next to a cast stocked with veteran hand toand experts like EO oise Andrew Koji and Peter Mena maybe the shamanic blind Master played by Mena could sustain a spin-off of his own in eight more years like a presidential term an effort to obscure that much might explain all the nauseating handheld shooting which chops the choreography to bits until the stilled more orderly final Reckoning picture Alec Baldwin and Glen Gary Glenn Ross chewing out the cinematographer bojan bazelli put the camera down the inelegant in your face based treatment of a graceful form halfway between boxing and chess betrays the American Studio system's crude approximation of the genuine article just as Snake Eyes First learns the steps of sparring without tapping into the Warrior's Spirit his film can adopt the markers of martial arts Classics while missing the parts that contain their soul the script's attempts at wisdom amount to little more than dime restore platitudes and the intern assign turmoil of the arashikage clan never comes close to anything like emotional heft the flying fists may make this a relative anomaly for the multilex release calendar but that should be understood as the faintest possible praise an acknowledgement that we're looking at one of the more interesting varieties a boring movie any body with Curiosities peaked can watch one of the Dozen Superior Alternatives coming out of Asia on a yearly basis demonstrations of how gratifying middle brow action can be in more capable hands this was the promise of a globalized cinema landscape now in doubt that the planet's best would be spread for all to enjoy rather than mediocrities customized and shipped worldwide Snake Eyes gii Joe origins or simply Snake Eyes is a 2021 American superhero film Loosely based on Hasbro's GI Joe toy line character Snake Eyes it is the third installment in the GI Joe film series the film is directed by Robert schwen from a screenplay by Evan spiliotopoulos Joe shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse it served as an origin story for the Title Character while also being a reboot of the film series the film stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes with Andrew Koji Ursula corbo Samra weaving and E oise in supporting roles the project was first announced in May 2018 with Golding being cast in the title role in August 2019 and the rest of the cast joining in subsequent months after initial filming took place in Vancouver and Japan from October 2019 to February 2020 re shoots took place in March 2021 Snake Eyes was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on July 23rd 2021 the film received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics and only grossed $40 million worldwide against an 88110 million budget making it a box office bomb plot living on the run a young boy and his father are found by their Sinister pursuers forced to roll dice to determine his fate the father is murdered After Rolling double ones but his son escapes 20 years later the boy has adopted the name snake eyes and is discovered by Yakuza boss Kenta Tak Amura competing in an underground fighting circuit with the promise of help finding his father's killer he agrees to join kenta's criminal organization and is asked to execute a man who infiltrated the gang but helps him Escape instead the man is kenta's cousin Tommy who reveals that they were both in line to lead the arashikage clan an ancient ninja Society banished after trying to have Tommy killed Kenta still seeks control of the clan grateful to Snake Eyes Tommy brings him to his family's dojo in Tokyo to be initiated Tommy's grandmother sin the Clan's current leader agrees to let Snake Eyes undergo three trials to prove his worth in his first test Snake Eyes is unable to seize a bowl of water from the Clan's hard master realizing this is a test of humility he succeeds by respectfully asking instead unbeknownst to the clan Snake Eyes has been tasked by Kenta with betraying Tommy their escape was staged to allow Snake Eyes to win Tommy's trust and to steal the Clan's sacred jewel of the Sun the Clan's head of security Akiko distrusts Snake Eyes but she accompanies him and Tom Army on a raid of kenta's gang they learn through an ally major Scarlet O'Hara that Kenta is allied with a terrorist organization cobra snake eyes confronts Kenta and his Cobra liaison the baroness who warns that stealing the jewel is the only way they will lead him to his father's killer the Clan's blind Master administers snake ey's second test a vision of his father and he bonds with Kiko after telling her about his father's death for his final trial he faces the Clan's gigantic sacred anacondas sensing he is not truly pure of heart the snakes attack but he is saved by Akiko Snake Eyes conceals his deception but is expelled from the clan he bids farewell to Tommy as Blood Brothers but breaks into the Clan's Temple that at night subduing Akiko and stealing the jewel he delivers it to Kenta who agrees to give it to COBRA once he has used it to take over the arashi kach Snake Eyes receives his reward his father's killer a former Cobra agent and forces him to roll his own dice but spares his life and returns to warn the arashikage Tommy puts aside his anger when snake guys comes to his Aid as Kenta uses the Jewel's fiery magical powers to lay waste to the dojo Scarlet arrives to fight off kenta's men but she and Sen are captured a power hungry Kenta refuses to hand over the jewel prompting the baroness to agree to a temporary alliance with scarlet and the clan with his men defeated Kenta loses the jewel to Thomas who tries to use its power to kill him Kenta escapes but Snake Eyes traps them both in the Anaconda pit where Kenta is devoured the snakes now judge Snake Eyes as pure of heart worthy of joining the clan sen strips Tommy of his Birthright for breaking the family's vow never to use the jewel forsaking the clan and blaming snake eyes Tommy vows to kill him should they ever meet again as Snake Eyes sets out to find him Akiko gives him a black outfit and helmet and Scarlet informs Snake Eyes that his father was a member of international peacekeeping organization GI Joe and invites him to become a fellow Joe the baroness invites Tommy to join Cobra and he declares a new name for himself Storm Shadow cast Henry Golding as Snake Eyes a lone fighter with a mysterious past known only as Snake Eyes who is recruited into the secretive Clan or rashik the events of the film portray the character prior to becoming the heroic masked agent of the G Joe organization the character was drastically changed to accommodate a new background motiv ation and ethnicity Max archal plays the young Snake Eyes Andrew Koji as Tommy Storm Shadow a skilled member and the heir of the arishi kagi clan and Snake Eyes friend and brother in arms who will eventually become his Archen enemy Ursula corbero as baroness an elite operative at cobra a terrorist organization who is second only to Cobra Commander Samara weaving as Scarlet an elite agent and Army Major in GI Joe and Aly of the arashikage clan Haruka ABI as [Music] Akiko the arashi Kaji Clan's head of security who forges a deep tie to snake eyes takahiro Hira as Kenta Tommy's cousin a member of Cobra who seeks control of the irashiai clan box office Snake Eyes gross $ 28.3 million in the United States and Canada and 11.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $4.1 million with a production budget of at least 88 million the film needed to gross6 the $175 million in order to break even critical response on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 35% of 145 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 4.91 the website's consensus reads far from silent and not particularly deadly snake eyes serves as a step up for the gii Joe franchise thanks in no small part to Henry golding's work in the title role Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100 based on 32 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B on an A plus to f scale how is it possible that the American Ninja spy movie Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is more dreary than goofy isn't this An Origin story for an action figure whose signature attributes are his cool extreme sports outfit complete with black visor bike helmet his lack of speech he's a mute and his cool sword Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins is only sometimes as cheerfully silly as that sounds as in an early scene where a pack of Yakuza gangsters stick a few dozen swords into a truck driven by Henry golding's Title Character but more often than not Snake Eyes G Joe Origins is a dire checklist of cliches that were already Gathering Moss Back in the 1980s when gii Joe was a popular children's cartoon Snake Eyes must avenge his father Steven allerik who was executed by an assassin Samuel finsy on behalf of Cobra a cabal of flamboyantly dressed terrorists Snake Eyes would do anything to catch his father's killer even betray his buddy Tommy Storm Shadow arashic Andrew koi the main heir to the clandestine arashikage ninja Clan but to gain Tommy's trust Snake Eyes must impress Tommy's family by passing a series of ninja trials involving giant snakes and a magic Rock somehow despite all this giddy silliness Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins is somehow not a romp but rather a snooze how could this happen mostly because the filmmakers are committed to but never invested in the values and identity of a comic book anti-hero whose main appeal is a strong silent type shtick a little usually goes a long way with snake eyes because as with the other gii Joe characters there isn't much to the character Beyond some Buzzy kid-friendly umbrella Concepts like loyalty and honesty so snake ey's big test of character is will he sell Tommy out to Kenta takahiro rira a disgraced member of the arashikage clan in exchange for information about his father's killer the answer will absolutely not surprise you but that's almost beside the point the real problem with Snake Eyes gii Joe Origins is that it answers a question nobody wondered about and with dismally overproduced dialogue and action film making it's too polished to be a war crime but it's also too bland to be a decent Summer movie a lot of dialogue in Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins puffs up a convoluted story about stick figure characters who wander around formerly exotic locations the neon lit alleys of Shinjuku a ninja fort's willowy cherry blossom fied Courtyard and talk at length about betay