"G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra": Dumb, digital and derivative

Summer blockbuster season officially ends with the arrival of "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," another brainless popcorn picture built on an awful '80s TV cartoon.

It's a Bush-era movie built on a Reagan-era cartoon — all exotic hardware and can-do commandos, endless violence with barely a drop of blood — the illusion of "surgical" warfare reduced to a video game.

It's dumb. It's digital. It's derivative. This "Joe," scripted at a toy-selling TV-cartoon level, is a nonstop shoot-em-up edited to induce seizures.

Stone-faced dancer-boxer-tough-guy Channing Tatum stars as Duke, a soldier who loses a set of valuable missile warheads. An elite team headed by Gen. Hawk (Dennis Quaid) saves the nanomite (metal-eating micro-robots) bombs, and Duke and his pal Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are impressed.

This team, with its supersecret base beneath the Egyptian desert, its supersecret jets, supersecret subs and supersecret "acceleration suits" borrowed from "Iron Man," faces off against an evil Scottish arms supplier (Christopher Eccleston), the latest in a long line of "sell to both sides" villains, according to a prologue. In her skintight jumpsuit and stiletto heels, head henchwoman Ana (Sienna Miller) is taking no prisoners.

For all this Stephen "The Mummy" Sommers movie's infantile obsession with gadgets, here's something he gets right. Miller is a minx of a villain. All her time in the tabloids has given her a sexy, angry, bad-girl edge.

The rest? Action beats we've seen in a hundred other movies, from James Bond to "The Matrix."