Review – XXX: State of the Union

Despite the big budget and expensive effects, this was an intensely dreadful movie. Bad actors (with the exception of Samuel L. Jackson, whom I hope got paid a bundle for subjecting himself to this) deliver dialogue too stiff and corny for 70s-era comic books. I actually felt sorry for Ice Cube, who has gone from vocals on “Burn Hollywood Burn” to reciting lines that sound like they came from the “Black Acting School” sequence of Hollywood Shuffle. And I thought the first one was bad! Well okay, the first one was bad. But at least in episode one they were trying to do some kind of Bond rework. This time around it’s more like a blaxploitation version of a Chuck Norris flick glossed over with a coating of “Pimp My Ride” (complete with Xibit no less). See if desperate