The film also explains the core of both GI Joe and Cobra, clueing Snake Eyes in to a bigger world of assassins and warriors than he could have ever expected. Unlike Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, the movie doesn't explore these two characters much. Both GI Joe's Scarlett (Samara Weaving) and Cobra second-in-command Baroness (Úrsula Corberó) get thrown into the mix. While the movie does a lot to tell the story of both Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, they aren't the only GI Joe characters that appear. If Snake Eyes is any indication, this new direction for GI Joe is looking to change that-at least for some of its characters. It was clear who was good and who was evil on the original GI Joe animated series. There will be some GI Joe purists who prefer to know nothing about Snake Eyes' past, but it's refreshing to see the building blocks behind the iconic masked warrior and what motivates him to not only become a master assassin but drives him toward the GI Joe unit.

That journey leads to him training to join the Arashikage ninja clan and befriending Tommy Arashikage (Andrew Koji), who GI Joe fans will recognize as the man that eventually becomes Snake's arch-nemesis Storm Shadow. After watching his father be executed, we find him again as an adult, known only as Snake Eyes, with a thirst for revenge to find the one who killed his dad. The movie dips into the character's history, starting with childhood. With Crazy Rich Asians and A Simple Favor star Henry Golding cast in the title role and a slew of seeds planted for a new GI Joe film universe, though, Snake Eyes is better than you'd expect. After all, traditionally movies that give backstories to characters that don't need them have a spotty track record (Hey, Rob Zombie's Halloween remake). When it was revealed in 2018 that the GI Joe movie franchise would be rebooted with an origin story for Snake Eyes-a character that never shows his face and never speaks, with a mysterious past-it certainly didn't seem like a good idea.

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