XXX: State of the Union | | Cast : | Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe | | Director : | Lee Tamahori | | Studio : | Columbia Tristar Hom | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 29, 2005 | | DVD Released Date : | July 26, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | September 04, 2005 | | Summary | How to ruin a movie series in a single film | Content
 | It may be too early to make a final judgment, but overall I am optimistic when looking at the state of the movies in 2005. Others may talk of declining box office, but I see a rosier picture when it appears that the audience is becoming more discerning. Derivative action flicks like Stealth stumble out of the gate, and not long ago, the same happened with the sequel to XXX.
Subtitled "State of the Union," XXX 2 is merely an excuse to watch things blow up. There are the vestiges of a plot involving a coup attempt by the Secretary of Defense, but the story is merely an excuse to get from one silly incident to the next. What's the most inane scene in this movie: the ludicrous prison escape or the final battle sequence which involves the recruiting of a bunch of gang members who all apparently never do drugs and have a vague sense of patriotism? There are probably a dozen other choices.
The intent of the original movie was to showcase extreme sports in a James Bond parody, and it was quite successful. With Vin Diesel's replacement (a perpetually scowling Ice Cube) an ex-SEAL, we basically lose what made the first movie original. Instead, we get a clichéd action flick that has been done better dozens of times.
So maybe movie audiences are getting better at recognizing garbage when it comes out, and maybe that in turn will lead to better movies. Yeah, right.
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| Rating | | | Date | September 03, 2005 | | Summary | Terrible Movie | Content
| This was one of the most fake and stupidest movie ever.There's so much stunts in this film thats so fake it's unbelieveable.I like Ice Cube , he plays a good bad#ss and this role was for him but the stunts he had to perform are overated.This movie really stands for Hollywood.Not worth buying or renting.I ended up shutting it off about 35 minutes in.It's too bad that Willem Dafoe had to be in this movie.Ice Cube needs to stick to his Cube Vision flicks. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 02, 2005 | | Summary | Ice Cube Thinks He's All That But He's Not | Content
| Oh my God I can't even think how bad this movie is I mean wow. Okey first off why do we need a new triple X huh? And they got the guy that nobody even thoght of benig the new xXx Ice Cube the man who did good films like Boyz in The Hood and now he go's off and makes this crap my God. And Sam Jackson is'nt that good like he was in the first one here he's a litile sidekick shure he fire's guns in this one but really? And Willem Defoe is the bad guy not the good kind of bad guy like he was in Once Upon A Time In Mexico or Spiderman and he's just a man doing what he toght was right not Evil and his plan to take over the white house and start World War 4 is just a big fat whaste of time well at least it's a smart plan not that smart but still smart. Anyway the only good thing about this movie is that it makes you lagh you're ass off like me the action is dull and boring and the fact that all the good guys are black and the bad guys are white makes you think at how bad this movie really is. And oh yeah Xzibit is in it to pimp some rides so all and all xXx 2 is soo much of a bad movie that you have to buy it if you whant a good lagh |
| Rating | | | Date | September 01, 2005 | | Summary | better than the first | Content
| I think this one was way better than the first , first of all the characters are alot more fleshed out than the first xxx. second the camera work and movie just look better than the first one, and ice cube is a better smarter xxx, hes ex navy seal so it makes sence he knows how to use all the gadgets and weapons,with vin diesel it didnt make any sence how an extreme sports guy would know how to use advanced weaponry. Lastly this is an actually good movie the first one was an annoying sports stunt after another until the movie finished. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 29, 2005 | | Summary | State of the Union not state of the art... | Content
| Don't be fooled by my heading, I did enjoy the movie, but that is because I went into it expecting it to be just what it was: An action "lite" film with some great actors who's characters are not always very in depth and some big explosions and stunts that are typical of the cookie cutter action film.
We have Ice Cube, Willem Defoe, and Samuel L. Jackson as stars. Ice Cube is the new triple X, only instead of being an ESPN Extreme sports type (like Vin Diesel in the first one), he's a former Navy Seal who is in Maximum Security Prison who is quickly brought out to battle the some corrupt forces within our very own nations capital.
They tried to make this a "thriller" instead of an action movie, and in some ways succeeded. I feel the plot in this movie is a bit more thought out than the first one, but perhaps not quite as well executed.
We have tricked out vehicles with James Bond type hardware that don't really become original as much as "ho hum, another one of these" and several scenes with Tanks that would make real army and marine Tankers shake thier heads and chuckle (launching an M1-A1 Abrams from a catapult cable off the deck of an aircraft carrier)
Cube's character, Darius Stone, tries to get to the bottom of things while evading every law enforcement agency Washington D.C. can throw at him (reminiscent of "The Fugitive") While back at the ranch, an NSA operative has of course taken on the role of the wary agent who thinks that Stone might be right, and that his accusers just may be the ones who are guilty.
If you like action, special ops scenes, gadgetry and hardware within the military arms realm, and lots of explosions, then this is your movie. I did think that Ice Cube was a pretty good Triple X, though the entire "fast and the furious" persona still seems to seep in this movie as we are in a "monster garage" for several scenes throughout. Of course how else are you going to build your James Bond/Mission Impossible car in 2 hours with a welder and some government issued missiles?
Fin-
3 stars because it is what it is, not 2 because of what it is not, nor should it be compared to similair films of it's plot genre like The Bourne Identity and the such. |
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