Shipped: XXX: State of the Union - Shipped on 11/23/05.
Presidential addresses to Congress notwithstanding, the state of the union ain't great when Darius Stone (Ice Cube), a new National Security Agency operative, lands in the nation's capital. It seems a rogue military faction (led by Willem Dafoe) plans to topple the U.S. government, and it's up to Stone and veteran Agent Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) to checkmate the bad guys in this action thriller from director Lee Tamahori.

If you want to watch things blow up and an all out action trill ride you might like XXX:State of the Union. If you want a Generation X Jame Bond type dramtic thriller (like the first movie in the seriers) pass this one by. None of the elements that made the first movie great are here. No X-games style stunts, not Bond like gagets, No Europeian backdrop. No sexual tention. Not even the great witty dialouge of the first movie is found here. Oh yeah Vin Diesel isn't in it either.
Don't get me wrong Samuel Jackson and Ice Cube are both great heavy hitters, but without Rob Cohen's Direction and Rich Wilkes writting it just doesn't feel as great as the first one. Now if you forget you're watching a sequel (something they seem to have tried hard to make easy to do) its an enjoyable enough action flix. Its just shouldn't have been named XXX