XXX: State of the Union

XXX: STATE OF THE UNION (2005) - April 25, 2005
While the first XXX was pretty mediocre, it was a masterpiece compared to this movie. The movie is never exciting, it's flat-out boring and even worse, confusing at times. I guess there was so much action there wasn't even time to explain what was going on half of the time. Why did XXX have to work outside of the system at the beginning of the film? Why did he do half the stuff he did? The movie doesn't slow down to answer questions like these, instead thrusting Ice Cube into one boring action sequence after another. And not a single one was good. They were all so bland; it was like the film was directed by an emotionless, artless robot whose only knowledge was of other action movies. The film features all the requisite action movie cliches: XXX jumping onto a flying helicopter, XXX walking away from an explosion in slow motion, XXX spouting one-liners. And yet it was all so boring, so dull, so routine. By the end of the movie I was bored out of my mind and fully ready to walk out. At least it was short, though it felt very very long. *