But there’s only so much that actors can do with material this woefully thin, turning “Snake Eyes” into a movie that approximates the look of action figures, but ultimately can’t conjure the depth of them. Golding makes a solid hero, with Andrew Koji and Haruka Abe as key clan members – one having welcomed him into their ranks, the other skeptical. Yes, there’s eventually room for the terror-fighting Joes and their bitter enemy Cobra to squeeze into the narrative, but director Robert Schwentke (“RED”) and a trio of screenwriters take the “origins” part so seriously that the story inches along for two hours – punctuated by martial-arts action and fretting about a magical artifact – before essentially running out of time. When we meet him two decades later, he remains on that quest, leading him to Japan and into the world of an ancient clan known as the Arashikage.įor much of the first hour, Snake Eyes seeks to find his place in their hierarchy, which keeps testing his worth even as they face an exterior threat from the Yakuza, a shadowy criminal enterprise. Golding’s title character is introduced as a child given a strong motivation for revenge. Yet as much as the movie appears to yearn to jump-start the franchise, it seems to have forgotten to bother with a coherent script, leaving one to wonder how a film with this much action somehow manages to be so boring. Joe” movie – eight years after the last entry – drawing upon a Hasbro toy franchise introduced in the ’60s. “Snake Eyes” represents the third live-action “G.I. Joe Origins” hits theaters, with Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) as the martial-arts warrior and “Master of the Universe: Revelation” lands on Netflix, offering director Kevin Smith’s updated animated spin on the series, bringing a bit more power and certainly higher stakes for those weaned on the stiff limited animation of the 1980s.
This weekend brings two popular artifacts from many a childhood back to screens: “Snake Eyes: G.I. They just keep coming back in new poses and flexing different muscles as movies and TV shows.
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