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XXX 2 - The Next Level [DVD] [2005]

DVD ~ Ice Cube
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Strauss
  • Directors: Lee Tamahori
  • Writers: Rich Wilkes, Simon Kinberg
  • Producers: Arne Schmidt, Derek Dauchy, Neal H. Moritz, Rob Cohen, Todd Garner
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, English, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Romanian, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Aug 2005
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0009NZ1KM
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,390 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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


Synopsis

Ice Cube replaces Vin Diesel for this hard-bangin' sequel which favours fists, cars, and snooping over the original's heavy dose of extreme sports stunts. NSA agent Gibbons (Samuel Jackson, back from the original) finds his group under attack by well-armed, well-informed combatants, forcing him to activate a new XXX, Darius Stone (Cube), an old Navy Seal buddy currently cooling his heels in an army prison. It turns out there's a plan to whack the president (Peter Strauss) and a deranged secretary of defence played by Willem Dafoe is behind it. What's more important is the cool way Darius knows how to land a speeding boat on a bridge, then walk away in slow motion as it blows up behind him. Other great scenes include a tank battle on an aircraft carrier and a race with a bullet train that makes THE FRENCH CONNECTION look like a turtle race. There's some hilarious dialogue, such as when Darius recruits his old DC car-jacking buddies to ride into battle against the corrupt militia, leading to the 'first tank-jacking in history'. Scott Speedman plays a sympathetic Fed; Lola Jackson and Sunny Mabrey are the sexy chicks. There's lots of greal looking cars, cool gadgets, and pumpin' rap-crunk music. Director Lee Tamahori also helmed James Bond's DIE ANOTHER DAY and the 1997 thriller THE EDGE.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars What a waste., 24 Jan 2006
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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Dry but active, 13 Feb 2006
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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.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars the view according to www.georgevader.co.uk, 18 Sep 2005
By R. J. Williams "Postie" (Clevedon, UK) - See all my reviews
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Standard action fare.
Sequel to xXx in which head of the NSA (National Security Agency) Samuel L. Jackson hires former and now incarcerated Navy Seal Ice Cube to be the next secret agent xXx (triple X)... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Irikefe Okonedo

2.0 out of 5 stars Really poor
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 17 months ago by Mr W

1.0 out of 5 stars 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 17 months ago by martin thomas

1.0 out of 5 stars 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 22 months ago by John Evans

1.0 out of 5 stars 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

2.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on 27 May 2007 by Maz

2.0 out of 5 stars 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

1.0 out of 5 stars More YYY than XXX
BANG…Samuel L. Jackson fights off horde of angry bad guys single handed… KAPOW…queue Willem Dafoe looking menacing and reciting cheesy one-liner…BOOM... Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2006 by Matt Aylott

4.0 out of 5 stars An all round great film!
Quite different in tone and pace to the first film, but with a good selection of actors. The effects I thought were impressive but becoming more and more like James Bond than the... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2006

2.0 out of 5 stars xxx 2 the next level
I found the film very slow and no real point to it. expect for special effects its nothing like the first film.
Published on 19 Jan 2006 by C. Woodard

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