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Movies that feel likeG.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

If you loved G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the closest films we have are The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Green Zone (2010). All three share G.I. Joe: Retaliation's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shooter (2007).

🍅 29% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jon M. Chukineticcerebralepictenseparanoid
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 90%★ 7.5adventure · action · science fictionNetflix

Two things both keep coming back to: president and conspiracy

The difference: Reviewed even better

After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.

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🍅 90%★ 7.7action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than G.I. Joe: Retaliation does

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

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Green Zone
2010 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 53%★ 6.8war · action · adventure

Common ground: conspiracy

The difference: Trades the ideas of G.I. Joe: Retaliation for an angle of its own

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

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Shooter
2007 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 47%★ 7.2drama · action · thrillerParamount+Starz

Tense and paranoid in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than G.I. Joe: Retaliation does

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.

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Minority Report
2002 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 89%★ 7.6science fiction · action · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

Action built on ideas, twice over

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

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What Happened to Monday
2017 · dir. Tommy Wirkola
🍅 62%★ 6.8science fiction · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Kinetic science fiction in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than G.I. Joe: Retaliation does

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

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Assassin's Creed
2016 · dir. Justin Kurzel
🍅 18%★ 5.6action · adventure · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: assassin

Through a technology that unlocks the genetic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 55%★ 6.2action · drama · thrillerParamount+Starz

The same preoccupation in both: surveillance

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

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The Circle
2017 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 16%★ 5.4drama · thriller · science fiction

One thread runs through both: technology

A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.

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Battleship
2012 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 33%★ 5.8thriller · action · adventureNetflix

Cerebral adventure, and it commits to that

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

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White House Down
2013 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 52%★ 6.3action · drama · thrillerNetflixStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: explosion

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

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Exterritorial
2025 · dir. Christian Zübert
★ 5.8thriller · actionNetflix

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

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