Joe" film can, in fact, be made, though not without some bruises along the way. Man, Sommers isn't involved in this film, and the first one wasn't even all-out bad, yet I'm still talking trash about the guy, probably because this film shows us that a decent "G.I.
Chu at least knows how to appeal to superficial morons, and on that level, he's all but perfect to direct this film, which isn't to say that Sommers raised all that high of a standard with the last film. up until you find out that the guy they replaced Sommers with in the director's chair is the guy who did "Step Up 2" and "3D", and "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never". Shoot, just for good measure, the makers of this film also scored Bruce Willis, as well as Ray Stevenson, so you know that this is going to be a man's man's movie.
Well, don't worry, people, because not even Sommers came back for this, and he came back for a second installment in the "Mummy" series (He didn't direct the third one, though, so maybe he's getting a better understanding of when enough is enough when it comes to lame blockbusters), although these filmmakers were able to score the Scorpion King, even if it's only because Dwayne Johnson appears to be on a mission to be involved in most every machismo action franchise he can possibly be involved in. Yeah, you can forget Duke as the iconic protagonist for this series, because Tatum has built up too much integrity to stay long here, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt has done exactly the same, if not more so, although I can't help but feel as though the real reason why he didn't even touch this project was because he even saw how bad he was in "The Rise of Cobra" and didn't want to run the risk of further damaging his reputation as a talent by working with a director as incompetent as Stephen Sommers again.
"Retaliation" is a fitting subtitle, because this is pretty much an answer to those who were attacking the first one, but it's not like everyone was on board, because even Channing Tatum had to bail out of this film early on. Joe" is back in action, undoubtedly because of popular demand. It's been almost five years, but after production problems, release delays and all that other mumbo jumbo, "G.I.