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xXx: State of the Union (2005)

PG-13  |   |  Action, Adventure, Crime  |  29 April 2005 (USA)
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Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, is sent to Washington, DC to defuse a power struggle amongst national leaders.

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Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of Defense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new XXX agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence and some language | See all certifications »

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29 April 2005 (USA)  »

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Budget:

$87,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£920,506 (UK) (29 April 2005)

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$26,082,914 (USA) (27 May 2005)
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Vin Diesel and director Rob Cohen signed on for this film two months before the original opened. Both ended up leaving the project. See more »

Goofs

When the truck crashes through the barricade enroute to the Capitol building, you can see the cable attached to, and pulling on, the Humvee to pull it out of the frame to the right. See more »

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Maurice: I'm not goin' out without a fight.
Webster: He's retarded!
Maurice: Key's in the truck. Move the level, 'cause the brakes get stuck.
Agent Toby Lee Shavers: Hi, I'm Agent Shavers. We'll be commandeering your truck today.
Webster: Man, we can't let anybody know a white guy hijacked us.
Maurice: We'll say it was 75 black guys.
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References Octopussy (1983) See more »

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State of the Union
Written by Julian Bunetta and Peter Bunetta
Performed by Peter Bunetta
Courtesy of Family Affair Productions
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At least Vin Diesel wasn't in this one
8 May 2005 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

I had no idea what State of the Union was going to be about when I went to see it last weekend. Once inside the movie theater I was told that it is a sequel to the movie XXX. Stunned that I was about to see a Vin Diesel (have nothing personal against him but I found that odds are high that if he is in a movie I won't like it, especially after the dreaded "Man Apart") movie I almost got up to leave. I was reassured, however, that he was not in it. Sitting through the first few minutes I saw names that I liked--Ice Cube and Samuel L. Jackson--and decided to give this one a shot. I didn't see the first XXX. I wish I hadn't seen the sequel. But I did. At the end I was wishing that Vin Diesel would come and save the day by shooting the characters of Willem Dafoe, Samuel L. Jackson, Ice Cube, the College Boy and the entire biker crew. To say this movie doesn't have a plot would be insulting movies which don't have a plot but at least attempt to have one. A tyrannical Secretary of Defense who wants to kill everyone, starting with the President, in order of succession so he can lead the country? A crew of DC thugs who come to the rescue of the country so they can live in a country where they are "free to jack cars"? This movie has the same effect on a viewers intellect as does junk food on his body. It kills it slowly. And with enough Whoppers and curly fries like this one one could become brain dead. Hollywood really should put warning labels on these prepackaged cookie-cutter action movies "This movie may kill your brain cells!"


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