GI Joe - Rise of the Cobra ****

well what can I say? This is a typcial comic based movie, but all the same, it is a very good one. lots of action and effects. its gotthe badies trying to take over the world using new metal eating nano thingies and then there's the elite team of GI Joes, a secret team put together to keep the world safe. I sometimes wonder how noone notices the billions of dollars going in to these secret entities, but anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQM31QCufI

4 out of 5 stars

Gamer ****

Gamer is set around a time in the future when society's morals have lowered another notch to the point that sees inmates being genetically modified so they can be controlled as part of a game. Teenagers get to control the inmates as they play them through the rounds of street and war combat and of course for the inamtes there's the chance of an eventual pardon. and again, of course, there's always corruption and the yearning for world domination motivating the badies to be bad

This was one of those movies where the makers felt that we're more interested in watching their ability to shoot an artsy flick than we are in watching the action. the scenes and camera juts around way too much and at times becomes disjointed

Apart from that though and what gained it the fourth star in my opinion, there was some good action and a good story line

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ubYTIazskQ


4 out of 5 stars (don't watch this with the kids or your mum around though!)