{"id":307785,"date":"2021-07-23T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stiffer-than-a-plastic-toy\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T11:19:54","slug":"stiffer-than-a-plastic-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stiffer-than-a-plastic-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stiffer than a plastic toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stiffer than a plastic toy<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Henry Golding believes in method acting. You can tell while watching his performance in the third G.I. Joe film, \u201cSnake Eyes,\u201d because it is obvious the actor has fastidiously studied what it means to be a plastic toy.<\/p>\n

The \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d charmer is so stiff in his first go-round as an action hero, at no point do you care if Snake Eyes lives or dies. That is a big problem for a film in which the only stakes are life and death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To cut him some slack, though, Golding signed onto awful material that shouldn\u2019t exist in the first place.<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 121 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sequences of strong violence and brief strong language). In theaters.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cSnake Eyes,\u201d while slightly better than the unrelenting vomit that was \u201cThe Rise of Cobra\u201d and \u201cRetaliation,\u201d advances a storyline that need not be advanced, because everybody desperately wants it to go away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Making matters worse, our main character is kind of an ass. He betrays friends at every step of his journey, causes untold damage and often hurts his own cause in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the beginning of director Robert Schwentke\u2019s humorless origin story, Snake is a little boy whose father is killed unexpectedly while hiding out in a safe house. The slimeball who offs him hands Dad a pair of dice and says, \u201cIf you win, you live. If you lose, you die.\u201d He does not specify exactly what you have to roll to win, but Dad rolls snake eyes. That\u2019s how his son gets his moniker.<\/p>\n

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Henry Golding plays Snake Eyes in this new G.I. Joe origins film.<\/figcaption>
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As an adult, Snake is making money as a cage fighter and gets recruited by another shadowy criminal who claims he can help him find Pop\u2019s murderer in exchange for smuggling work. But after a massive fight in the weapons sales ring, the loner is then offered the chance to become a member of a Japanese spy\u2019s (Andrew Koji) clan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The secretive group protects a magic stone called the Jewel of the Sun, which allows its holder to instantly incinerate anybody or anything in their path. That seems a bit quaint considering the existence of nonmagical \u2014 but effective \u2014 bombs, guns and flamethrowers, but that\u2019s what we\u2019ve got to work with.<\/p>\n

Long story short, Snake has to complete three deadly tasks to gain membership in a clan that offers very few personal benefits for him. And it takes a very long time for these challenges to happ<\/a>en.<\/p>\n

All of this is building toward Snake Eyes becoming a Joe, but the martial arts film\u2019s connection to the main story feels frail, as if \u201cCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon\u201d ended with Michelle Yeoh becoming an Avenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fights, taken on their own, are occasionally OK, but not enough to lift this joke- and fun-free slog.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Stiffer than a plastic toy” Henry Golding believes in method acting. You can tell while watching his performance in the third G.I. Joe film, \u201cSnake Eyes,\u201d because it is obvious the actor has fastidiously studied what it means to be a plastic toy. The \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d charmer is so stiff in his first go-round…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/snake-eyes-gi-joe-origin-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[112638,89733,45444,45205,7598],"class_list":["post-307785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-23-21","tag-action-movies","tag-crazy-rich-asians","tag-henry-golding","tag-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}