Stars: Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe

Director: Lee Tamahori

Summary: An devastating attack on Washington is in process. When XXX uncovers the dastardly plan, his investigations lead him deep into the US Government. Only he can stop the inevitable tragedy from happening...

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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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on March 29, 2006 1:36 PM

In this action - packed sequel to the box - office smash xXx , Ice Cube stars as Darius Stone , a thrill - seeking troublemaker whose criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest xXx agent . Augustus Gibbons ( Samuel L.Jackson ) , the National Security Agency officer returns and recruits ex - con Stone to help save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by 5 - star general and Secretary of Defence George Deckert ( Willem Dafoe ) . Only a renegade xXx agent can save the day.

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With a core audience of gameboys and hot-rodders aged 25 and under, xXx 2is 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 2gets 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

Aspect Ratio:	2.40 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Film Makers Commentary, Directors Introduction, VFX Commentary, Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary, Making Of Documentary, Featurettes, Multi Angle Featurettes, Audio Descriptive Track
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Turkish
Year:	2005
Release Date:	August 29, 2005
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 37870
Keywords:	Action, Next, General, Level, Adventure, Xxx
Genre:	Action/Adventure