pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FUN
10
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
53
how much it moved you
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Read from 45 comments (41 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 15 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Marked above the line: 1 that landed as a blow.
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“the cliff side fight sequence was pure gold”
Dr Nostromo · TMDB reviews ↗
“l'histoire qui tient sur un demi-ticket de métro se traîne éhontément et que ça parle beaucoup et que ça ne se remue pas vraiment le cul”
Broyax · Metacritic ↗
“was a boring movie”
CineAutoctono · Metacritic ↗
“in the action scenes have felt a little move”
CineAutoctono · Metacritic ↗
“The film kicks off on kind of familiar territory but with a few strange faces”
StevenF · Metacritic ↗
“Snake Eyes (Ray Park), who is involved in some of the most impressive sequences of the film”
StevenF · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“So fetishistic about high-powered weapons that it qualifies as an NRA wet dream, G.I. Joe: Retaliation pretty accurately reflects the franchise's comic book and cartoon origins, which is both a good and a bad thing: good if you're a 12- to 15-year-old boy, bad if you're just about anyone else.”
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter · 70
“It's not enough to call this the rare franchise action movie to bring the goods; it's the even rarer one whose creators seem to understand what the goods even are.”
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice · 70
“An action figure with a sweet core, Johnson can pump up the humanity of any franchise, whether he’s playing a stepdad who becomes a hero in Journey 2 or, as here, a stud soldier who treats Flint and Jaye like his grown children and shepherds them through peril. Following those younger Joes, the Retaliation audience is encouraged to clamber up on Johnson’s huge soldiers and go along for a pretty cool ride.”
Richard Corliss, Time · 70
“Retaliation is no masterpiece, but it’s a movie whose fun doesn’t feel like a four-letter word -- popcorn entertainment that not only rivals what you see during summer, but surpasses what you see from Sommers.”
Todd Gilchrist, The Playlist · 67
“It's well-executed technocratic action fluff. But it did leave me buzzed rather than drained.”
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 67
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 25 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“l'histoire qui tient sur un demi-ticket de métro se traîne éhontément et que ça parle beaucoup et que ça ne se remue pas vraiment le cul”
Broyaxabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“was a boring movie”
CineAutoctonoabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“in the action scenes have felt a little move”
CineAutoctonoabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“The film kicks off on kind of familiar territory but with a few strange faces”
StevenFabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“the cliff side fight sequence was pure gold”
Dr Nostromoabout 40–60% inread it ↗
“This is actually the third time seeing this, not because I liked it nor am that big of a fan of the toy line it spawned from, but saw this in the theaters, then again on Blu-ray and now on 4K Ultra HD, the latter two times for review. I had doubt this third viewing would make much of a difference and while I found it entertaining and perhaps a slight upgrade in rating (2.75 vs 3.0) and that it was better assembled compared with The Rise of Cobra, including visual effects that was a massive impro”
JPV852read it ↗
“Well, it wasn't great, but it was leagues above the first outing. Dwayne Johnson wasn't exactly the articulate chef with the heavy machine gun that we all knew and loved, but the story behind and the characters seemed a lot more like the GI Joe of the comic books, the GI Joe of the cartoons. It seemed more like early GI Joe, and early Larry Hama, it seemed more like the era where he was writing a military comic book for a military toy geared towards little boys, rather than the over-the-to”
GenerationofSwineread it ↗
“With some of my favorite actors like Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson I was really expecting this to be a great movie! It certainly had action and those actors had great lines and roles. But the movie seemed to be split into a bad version of Small Soldiers and a Jackie Chan movie two separate styles each separate and then only tied together by a thin thread towards the end of the movie. Again, feels like more effort could have been put into checking the story before making the movie.”
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