Plot; The Joes are forced to work with their Soviet counterparts to take on alien invaders that might not be exactly what they appear.
The potential fun of seeing the ultra patriotic Joes having to team up with their Russian equivalent (the smartly named Oktober Guard) with the Cold War still raging is mostly squandered thanks to the ham-fisted script and the ridiculous plot (Cobra faking an alien invasion to distract the super powers so they can invade the White House and Kremlin and steal their respective secrets). The story (unsurprisingly) never delves into ideology or geopolitics, but it does portray the Guard as more or less like the Joes. Brave, competent soldiers doing their duty, but without ladling on a heaping of moral equivalency. That at least is something.
The potential fun of seeing the ultra patriotic Joes having to team up with their Russian equivalent (the smartly named Oktober Guard) with the Cold War still raging is mostly squandered thanks to the ham-fisted script and the ridiculous plot (Cobra faking an alien invasion to distract the super powers so they can invade the White House and Kremlin and steal their respective secrets). The story (unsurprisingly) never delves into ideology or geopolitics, but it does portray the Guard as more or less like the Joes. Brave, competent soldiers doing their duty, but without ladling on a heaping of moral equivalency. That at least is something.
