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Movies that feel likeG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

If you loved G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the closest films we have are Iron Man 2 (2010), Headshot (2016) and Upgrade (2018). All three share G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Villainess (2017).

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stephen Sommersepickinetictensecerebralrelentless
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

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Iron Man 2
2010 · dir. Jon Favreau
🍅 72%★ 6.9adventure · action · science fictionHuluDisney+

The same two preoccupations: technology, and revenge

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.

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Headshot
2016 · dir. Timo Tjahjanto
🍅 73%★ 6.3action · thriller · dramaNetflix

Common ground: revenge

The difference: Goes its own way on the scale

A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

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Upgrade
2018 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 88%★ 7.5action · thriller · science fictionNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Lighter on scale

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

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The Villainess
2017 · dir. Jung Byung-gil
🍅 85%★ 6.6action · thrillerPrime Video

Both land momentum and tension at once

Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited with the promise of freedom after ten years of service. However, secrets from her past destroy everything she’s worked for and now she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.

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The Mask of Zorro
1998 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 86%★ 6.8action · adventure

The same mix in both: scale, then relentlessness

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.

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Jawan
2023 · dir. Atlee
★ 6.9action · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

An emotional journey of a prison warden, driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, and that leads him to an unexpected reunion.

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Killer Elite
2011 · dir. Gary McKendry
🍅 26%★ 6.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

Two things both keep coming back to: hostage and explosion

Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

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Ong Bak 2
2008 · dir. Tony Jaa
🍅 49%★ 6.2adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Epic adventure in both cases

Tien, the son of Lord Sihadecho — a murdered nobleman — is taken under the wing of Chernang, a renowned warrior and leader of the Pha Beek Krut.

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 19%★ 6science fiction · action · adventureParamount+Starz

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

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Captain America: Brave New World
2025 · dir. Julius Onah
🍅 46%★ 5.6action · thriller · science fictionDisney+

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

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American Assassin
2017 · dir. Michael Cuesta
🍅 34%★ 6.2action · adventure · thrillerParamount+

Adventure built on relentlessness, twice over

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: scientist

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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