Apparently I'm a stick-in-the-mud, an old-fashioned sort who wants plot and/or characters in a film. "XX" strikes me as a self-indulgent film-school effort that must have been privately released by a vanity press. The soundtrack is annoying, the characters (such as they are) uniformly unlikeable, the film grainy (yes yes, I'm sure that's an "artistic effect," like leaving bits of eggshell in the omelet), any sort of "plot" missing altogether, and the whole thing largely unbearable, even on fast-forward (no, don't bother, nothing ever happens). It even manages to make sex dull, which is no small achievement. On the other hand, the filmmaker has finally pushed Richard Gere's KING DAVID out of my Number One Worst Movie Ever spot, which nobody else has achieved in the last 20 years, so I suppose that's something. I don't even know anyone to GIVE this to.