When the impossible becomes possible...

Two things happened tonight.

(1) I unlocked my door with my house key, took off my shoes, walked up to my room, and my key was gone. I've just spent a good fifteen minutes looking for it and no luck yet....

[Spoiler below]

(2) I watched ice sink. In the sea. With so much momentum that it crushed metal whilst sinking.

Now I'm generally pretty good at suspending disbelief when watching films. You want me to believe that in a few years we'll have this amazing technology that'll allow us to do all this amazing stuff, fine. But sinking ice went a bit too far.

Having said that, G.I. Joe was a pretty damn good action flick. It has all the good hallmarks of a great action movie: gunfire, explosions, missiles, fighter jets, martial arts, futuristic technology, a car chase, stolen warheads, great ideas that just mysteriously find their way into people's heads at the perfect time, an ugly evil mad scientist, a foxy villainess, and a ridiculously hot male lead.

Ok so it was clichéd, with an unoriginal plot and nonexistent subplots, cheesy script-writing that made me flinch (including the mandatory love story brutally inserted where it didn't belong), and the aforementioned sinking ice kinda killed the last twenty minutes of the movie for me whilst I was inwardly rofl-ing. But hey, I'm almost 26 now and I've seen my fair share of action movies in my time; and there's only so many ways you can make gunfire and explosions entertaining. I can forgive an action film for giving up some artistic qualities for more bangs and booms.

Let's be honest here, we go to see action flicks for the visual effects, and this movie certainly has enough of those to make it worthwhile seeing on the big screen. My recommendation? See it if you're in the mood for mindless destruction.

Edit: I see people argue that there was metal in the ice which made it sink. All fine and well, except that the ice exploded into a thousand pieces not all of which had metal in it. They all readily sank to the bottom.