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05/14/05
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XXX: State of the Union (2005)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:4
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Even more absurd and implausible than the first XXX movie.
Theatrical Release:Apr 29, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $26,082,914
Synopsis: Ice Cube replaces Vin Diesel for this hard-bangin' sequel which favors fists, cars, and snooping over the original's heavy dose of extreme sports stunts. NSA agent Gibbons (Samuel Jackson, back... [More]
Starring: Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Scott Speedman, Peter Strauss
Director: Lee Tamahori
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Reviews for XXX: State of the Union
Top CriticExplosions abound, along with expository dialogue and a ham-tastic triad of performances from Sam Jackson, Willem Dafoe, and Peter Strauss.
05/03/05
Top CriticThis is that rare B movie that’s rooted in gut-level stirrings of power and retaliation.
05/02/05
Top CriticSo primitive, it must have been written in lizard blood on animal skin.
04/29/05
Top CriticSo devoid of craft, it looks as though it were filmed by robots.
04/29/05
Top CriticIts action scenes are too absurd and too computer-generated to produce any kind of rush. The dialogue, not just amateurish, fails even to approximate something resembling human interaction.
04/29/05
Top CriticThere are bound to be pictures bigger, dumber and more punishing than this one released during the summer, but at least the warm weather also will bring a wider range of alternatives.
04/29/05
Top CriticMostly an excuse for cramming as much gratuitous violence as possible into a PG-13-rated flick running only 92 minutes.
04/29/05
Top CriticThe chases, shootouts and explosions in this deafening, lamebrained wreck of a movie make the Road Runner cartoons look like National Geographic specials.
04/29/05
Top CriticFunctions less as a movie than an overactive adrenal gland.
04/29/05
Top CriticThe most gratifying thing about xXx: State of the Union is that nobody wastes much time on character, motivation, plausibility, dialogue or sex -- all that slow stuff that drags down ordinary movies.
04/29/05
Top CriticThis is just a warm-up as the summer movie season gets an early start. Big, loud and stupid, XXX: State of the Union isn't so much a sequel as a preview of coming attractions.
04/29/05
Top CriticThis is garbage, fun garbage at times, but action-bang trash nonetheless.
04/29/05
Top CriticA humorless foray of noise and fast-cuts signifying nothing much.
04/29/05
Top CriticTo say that Tamahori (Die Another Day) panders is to understate his capacity for bread-and-circus-style filmmaking.
04/29/05
Top CriticThere are really only two kinds of big-budget action movies: stupid, and good and stupid. Surprisingly, XXX: State of the Union is good and stupid.
04/29/05
Top CriticOpens explosively and never lets up, with Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) in full command of the action and Simon Kinberg an equally astute writer with a flair for linking socko action set pieces with terse characterization.
04/28/05
Top CriticDid I enjoy this movie? Only in a dumb mindless way. It has whatever made the original XXX entertaining, but a little less of it. Does it make the slightest sense? Of course not.
04/28/05
Top CriticAt least this movie seems more aware of its trashiness than National Treasure was. It's therefore freer to have some off-the-cuff fun the way Steven Seagal's more tolerable vehicles once did.
04/28/05
Top CriticThis xXx seems to know exactly how stupid it is, and this kind of self-knowledge helps nudge it toward the guilty pleasure bracket, even if it never quite makes that leap.
04/28/05
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