‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins’ Review: Henry Golding Rules in a G.I. Joe Movie as Sleek Ninja-Combat Dynasty Thriller

“Snake Eyes: G.I.

Joe Origins” is probably about as good a movie as you’re going to get that has the words “G.I.

Joe” in the title.

Maybe that’s because it seems to have very little to do with anyone’s conventional idea of G.I.

Joe.

It’s not a square-jawed, mildly jingoistic heavy-weapons combat orgy, like “G.I.

Joe: The Rise of Cobra” (2009) or “G.I.

Joe: Retaliation” (2013), the previous two installments in the Hasbro-inspired action franchise.

It is, rather, a darkly atmospheric, sleekly scissor-limbed ninja combat orgy — a tale of vengeance and nobility and scheming set in Tokyo, where the title character (Henry Golding), a moody drifter who saw his father killed by shadowy forces, joins the Arashikage clan, a 600-year-old ninja dynasty, but only because he’s on an undercover mission of sabotage.The movie is also a synthetic but infectiously skillful big-studio hodgepodge of ninja films,

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