In GI Joe, pilots are supposed to parachute
safely out of their helicopters when they're blown up because it's a stupid kid's franchise and a stupid movie, you asshole.
Director Brad Peyton competently stages most
of the action, from George breaking
out of his sanctuary, to a canister retrieval in Wyoming, led by scarred mercenary Burke (a briefly used Joe Manganiello), that turns awry, to the film culminating in mass destruction
of Chicago as the three animals, well, rampage to get to the sonar signal at the top
of the Wydens» skyscraper headquarters and Davis
safely crashes a
helicopter.