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Amazon.co.uk Review
With a core audience of gameboys and hot-rodders aged 25 and under, xXx 2 is the kind of action movie that requires literally no thought to enjoy. With Vin Diesel's original character just killed in Bora Bora (for details, see the uncensored unrated director's cut of xXx), Ice Cube steps in to play bad-ass, and the whole franchise takes on a hip-hop edge that's almost admirably absurd. The asinine plot is anarchy in Washington, D.C., as an insanely hawkish Secretary of State (Willem Dafoe) plots a Capitol coup just as the President (Peter Strauss, playing it straight) is giving his state-of-the-union address. All of this is prefaced by Cube's recruitment as a former Navy SEAL turned new-xXx, escaping from jail (Dafoe's character put him there), hooking up with an old flame who runs a chop-shop full of the world's hottest wheels, and reuniting with his old commander (Samuel L. Jackson) for a bullet-train climax that feels like Mission Impossible Lite. You could argue that Diesel's the smartest guy in the franchise for cashing out early, but xXx 2 gets the job done in passable fashion, with action veteran Lee Tamahori delivering the goods while he waits for a grown-up script to come along. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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Take the action and adventure of the first xXx -- triple it -- and you've got the sequel starring Ice Cube, Scott Speedman and Willem Dafoe.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
What were they thinking. Having Ice Cube playing an action hero. The dialogue is limp. Some of the special effects leave a lot to be desired. The only good bits worth watching the film for are the nice array of cars and trucks used in the film.
If you want to see an action film that makes sense...don't get this film.
If you want to see an action film that makes sense...don't get this film.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Well since I had seen Triple X with Vin Diesel, I thought that this next title was going to be good. How wrong I was. The story line was there, the action was there (in a few places) but the acting was dry well except for Samuel L. Jackson who was the same, but his lines could of been better. But to choose Ice Cube as the next XXX agent was half/half. Image was alright, but his acting was terrible.
Some of the action shots were like they were from Thunderbirds (orignal series) they were just missing the wires.
The only other person that I did like out of the whole film was Xzibit who was funny like he is on Punk My Ride (MTV) so that made it up, but only just.
My last comment would be to bring back the old directors, writers, actors and make a decent film.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
State Of The Union is the sequel to 2002's Vin Diesel fronted James Bond actioner XXX, this time the all action grunt is supplied by Ice Cube as he hunts down Willam Defoe, who leads a military splinter cell who plan to overthrow the US Government.
The film crashes and bangs from one action scene to another as our 'hero' steals sports cars, speed boats and tanks whilst only pausing breath during the gunfire and explosions to utter some cheesy dialogue " I was born looking guilty", all the time we're deafened by a nu-metal/rap soundtrack.
All black men are cool tough street-wise guys, white men are square and middle class, whilst all the women parade around with large cleavages shaking their 'booty'!
The action scenes though spectacular aren't too convincing, in fact the final chase scenes are almost 'cartoonish' resembling a cross between Roger Rabbit and The incredible.
The whole movie is utterly preposperous but never dull and boring so at least it has some redeeming features if they are few and far between.
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XXX2 THE NEXT LEVEL DVD
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This is a bad film. Avoid it unless you intend to doze. It has a couple of good setpieces but you may still find yourself tuning out.
Published on 20 Jun 2008 by CJ
awful sequel to an awful original
and heres another noisey badly shot,badly written,badly acted mess and life is too short to waste time on this drivel
Published on 7 Jun 2008 by martin thomas
The 1st was good this was terrible
I bought this thinking this should be good with Ice Cube been in it turns out i was wrong it was boring the story just lost me as i lost interest. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2008 by John Evans
Like Boiling Hot Vomit
2002's "xXx" barely had a brain cell to brag about and couldn't quite escape the levels of ineptitude on hand with its excellent action set pieces. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2007 by Thomas Elce
Slow
i found this lacking in spirit, script and acting. Samuel L Jackson was as good as he could be but the writing was painfully predictable and the completely ludicrous storyline was... Read more
Published on 27 May 2007 by Maz
High Gloss Low Substance actioner
Watching Ice Cube play the hard guy would-be spy makes you realise - wow! Vin Diesel actually DID have charisma after all! Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2006 by Mr. Stephen Kennedy
More YYY than XXX
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