Snake Eyes
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Dan Lybarger
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Henry Golding plays the title character a dangerous loner who got his name when he saw his father murdered by an assassin who offered him one roll of the dice to live in Robert Schwentke’s “Snake Eyes.”
It s reasonable to have low expectations for a movie produced by a toy company. Hasbro s action figures were designed with more care than the script.
But Snake Eyes often plays more like a martial arts movie than a simple act of fan service. Finding out how the masked commando honed his lethal skills before putting on his distinctive mask is occasionally more fun than it should be.
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Henry Golding deserves a much better star vehicle than Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. PHOTO: UIP
So Henry Golding is not just another pretty face.
His debonair good looks, posh British accent, nice-guy sincerity and genial charm allowed him to sail through rom-coms such as Crazy Rich Asians and Last Christmas.
He served up spades of style and the ladies swooned, but was there any substance?
Now that the rising Malaysian-British star is playing Snake Eyes, one of the coolest, most popular characters in Hasbro s G.I. Joe universe, in his first major lead role no less, the studio s gamble has paid off - to a certain extent.