Yawn.. Review on XXX - The Next Level Movie

I remember the first XXX with Vin Diesel!!! Vin Diesel brought something to XXX, with the bad ass-fear nobody daredevil character, underworld feel-like the clubs and the russian gang/ terrorist group, lots of action scenes with heavy metal blarring in the background!!! The original also had a more stable story and was put together, way better!!! Vin Diesel, was a way tougher XXX, than Ice Cube, face it!!! Damn, them for killing off Zhander (Vin Diesel)!!!

Now, for State of the Union, a pathetic excuse of a sequel!!! This is a pretty the same scenario, they made ''State of the Union'' too ploty, and focused too much worring about the story and less on straight forward action!!!

At, the beginning you havethese teroist attack a secret NSA facilty, on a farm.... don't ask!!!So were meant to believe a bunch of terrroists were able to make it passed security without a trace, and slaughter the whole NSA facilty, without struggle!!! Even, if the terroist was about 20 years advanced technolgy, the NSA would have lasted longer than only 5 minutes and would have better weapons, with way more advanced security along with commandos and probably government agents their too!!!

If, the NSA knows and can tell you every detail on terroists, and is called the National Security Agency, trusted in keeping America safe, why is it that thaey can't secure themselves!!! Anyways, Gibson and the gaget man are the only two that escape!!! NSA agent led by (Scott Speedman), cut operations and search for Gibson suspecting he had something to do with it!!!

Meanwhile, Gibson decides to call up a new XXX, a tougher one and Ice Cube being the choice!!! An ex soldiered court martialed for 20 years for disobeying and assaulting General Decker( the mastermind behind everything). Gibson finally, convinces him to help him, they don't hae the best friendship in the world!!! Now they make it look easy to escape from fedral prision, as when the sniper has a shot and doesn't fire for some reason that is when I knew this was going to be a bad film!!! So they basically must figure out who is behind this and why, with a bunch of action scenes, and some sweet stunts. Gibson is supposely killed off easily, so the fate of the world lays on Ice Cube's shoulders.

Ice Cube may act tougher but Vin Diesl and his stunts from the first movie, blow anything that this movie has to offer.

Beyond that they replace, the heavy metal with ghetto music, and the story is shaky with ons and tons of plot holes and problems, with unexplained stuff so on and so forth!!! To sum it up Secretary of State Decker(William Defoe)/General Decker believes,that the goverment has grown weak and feels he must put the government back on track, by destroying the government, and bulding up their armies and such. He plans on assinating him during The State of the Union cermony.

So he basically works out a plan, that requires the price of blood, he's pretty muuch one of those world domination/ fame nut cases using fancy words!!! Yeah and nobody finds out about this, either and who knows where he gets the funding for all this either!!! Ice Cube aided by Xibit and his ''homies'' go breaking through the secruity lines around the White House in tricked out vechiles, with weapons, which we are also supposed to believe. Then Ice Cube and Gibson team up and together must save the country once and for all.

Of course their are some great action scenes for example attacking The Aircraft carrier with a Bradley, but really how the hell am I supposed to believe that at all. Since the Abrams tank would have destroyed the Bradley instantly, playing us for a bunch of fools.

Atleast XXX part one was better, with Vin Diesel's stylish acting.

The last part with the fight on the Presidental Bullet Train was pretty darn cool as well!!! The thing is this whole time they keep playing us for fools: they make the NSA seem whimpy, along with the army, make it look easy to escape from a fedral prison, and in the meantime Decker schemes are never discovered, until it's too late!!! This movie basically makes us Americans look like fools! This movie is only good for raw action, their are some pretty sweet gagets as well, with cooler cars.

Hey, it's good to put a little imangination in the film, but besides that the movie is just weak the story is messed up and in all reality, the first XXX Zhander Kage(Vin Diesel) was 10,000 times better!