Stuck in the house on a cold Saturday night with nothing to do, I found this piece of action movie trash. This is the kind of film where you sit slumped in a chair watching one hyper action scene after another roll by in a plot that I would call a poor man's version of 7 Days in May.
Anyway, Ice Cube is some former hot shot soldier stuck in a federal prison for a crime he didn't commit. At least I think it was a crime he didn't commit, I wasn't paying attention to closely. Well Ice Cube is broken out of prison by the head of the NSA played by Samuel Jackson in a variation of a role he has played many times before. It seems that evil William Dafoe who is a General or the Secretary of Defense is planning on staging a coup to overthrow the government. Like Jackson, Dafoe has played variations on this type of role as well.
Plot, characterization and dialog in this kind of a movie really means nothing. This is an action show from the first scene to the last. Never mind if the scenes make any sense or are a part of the plot, they are just in the movie as a sort of violent low grade pornography. I can sit slumped in my chair and be sort of entertained but not exactly stimulated or excited
What XXX: State of the Union comes down to is another cookie cutter action film not well made but not poorly made either. I've seen this movie many times and I will probably spend the rest of my life watching this stuff.
101 minutes, written by Simon Kinberg.
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