Proving that the marketing suits in Hollywood are not entirely ignorant to the tastes of untold hordes of middle aged Korean women, actor Lee Byung-hun - best known in America as Storm Shadow, best known on Twitch for years of stellar work in films like A Bittersweet Life and The Good The Bad And The Weird - is topless every single time he appears in the trailer for GI Joe: Retaliation. And nobody else is at all. Seriously, if you can see his face you can see his abs. Which I personally find incredibly amusing.
But, more to the point, the trailer also features gunfire, explosions, sword fights and one liners galore. It's everything you could ask of a film designed to be a big, stupid, crowd pleasing summer movie really. If this trailer is to be believed the engineers who put this thing together knew their stuff. Don't believe me? Take a look at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Lee Byung-hun et al in action below.
But, more to the point, the trailer also features gunfire, explosions, sword fights and one liners galore. It's everything you could ask of a film designed to be a big, stupid, crowd pleasing summer movie really. If this trailer is to be believed the engineers who put this thing together knew their stuff. Don't believe me? Take a look at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Lee Byung-hun et al in action below.
I probably (90%) won't see it as I rarely make it out as I'm friggin' broke all the time, but this looks far better than the trailer for the last movie which made my flesh crawl.
As one reviewer pointed out the first GI Joe was like the filmmakers decided to remake Team America and didn't realize that it was supposed to be satire. This looks marginally better, key work being marginally. I will admit that the Cobra banners being unfurled over the white house gave me a chuckle. Not sure it was the reaction they were going for but whatever.