XXX: State of the Union

This is a B movie rooted in gut-level stirrings of power and retaliation.Read Full Review »

Opens explosively and never lets up.Read Full Review »

There 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, which makes it an immediate improvement over 2002's meatheaded "XXX."Read Full Review »

Theater of the absurd, masquerading as an action thriller.Read Full Review »

At 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.Read Full Review »

The winking title X Cubed somehow eluded the makers of this sequel, along with plot coherency, character development, or clever explosions of genre convention.Read Full Review »

One can give Ice Cube props for attitude, but not much more.Read Full Review »

Loud, dumb and obnoxious.Read Full Review »

The makers of State of the Union subscribe to the Jerry Bruckheimer big-bang theory of action (big, bigger, biggest), but they don't share that maestro's attention to detail, or apparently his deep pockets. The state of this cinematic union is shabby indeed.Read Full Review »

So primitive, it must have been written in lizard blood on animal skin.Read Full Review »