xxx2 represent the next level ( revolution studio and columbia picture change the subtitle from state of the union for international territory and for obvious reason ) come from the director of die another day and which be terrible while producer neal h. moritz and whose last credited project be the dire ( and thankfully now cancel ) point pleasant while be a sequel to the dreadful xxx while and come equip with samuel l. jackson state dislike of make movie with rapper . on this showing and you can not blame him . trading in vin diesel ( his character be write out by someone say that he get kill in bora bora ) for ice cube be no improvement while not only be he not the most expressive actor and but he not that convince in action ( when he be chase by scott speedman you just know that speedman would catch him like that ( snaps finger ) in real life ) . in fairness to mr. cube and he far from the only thing wrong with this while simon kinberg screenplay seem not only to have be aim at emotionally and intellectually stunt 13 year old but write by them as well and with the plot start idiotically and continue from there the villainous secretary of defence play by willem dafoe be so pantomime villainous that when he make a speech to jackson youre surprise he doesn not laugh maniacally . suspend disbelief be one thing and but when you have a movie that expect people to believe that tank can be handle like motorbike . and which work in such daft plot turn a character have their death fake just so they can be around for the climax ( why not just kill them there . ) . and that have a finale which depend on a car and a presidential bullet train be able to fit on the same track despite the car be a compact if speedy sport car . in this case it just impossible . admittedly it doesn not help that say scene be incompetently execute thanks to shockingly bad special effect and shoddy direction while some of the miniature be glaringly obvious and and i particularly hope that lead effect house industrial light and magic do not do the cgi bullet train shot . and a for the way some of the shot go from film to what look like video and back again . the cast isn not much good either and although it fun to see peter strauss a the president ( in spite or because of his not sound like he believe a word of this ) while xzibit not only help part of this seem like pimp my ride represent the movie but he can not act and dafoe be special guest villain level and and jackson phone it in . a for the female character and nona gaye and sunny mabrey be pretty much define by their cleavage and by the fact that one good and the other ( the one who look like a cross between nicolette sheridan and rachel bilson ) isn not . ( the movie can not even be laddish properly while for some reason the sexy woman in the movie ( masuimi max and who play xzibit girlfriend and who help out with the robbery of the artillery carry cheese truck ) isn not list in the credit . ) and the tiresome and crowbarred in rap number do not help and certainly not compare to marco beltrami score . ( ironically and at one point on hear the female string quartet bond our hero complain about the music while they be not to blame for the aural wrong . ) xxx2 represent whatever be so unexciting and so absurd that despite it stab at relevance ( our hero claim dafoe be hatch world war iv ) and the only way to get through it be a a laugher while the sight of ice cube in a suit and tie ( with umbrella . ) be funny than his intentional attempt at comedy later in the same scene . to make it bad and the last scene leave the door wide open for a third movie . if it do happen and why not cast scarlett johansson or charlotte church a the new triple x. it not like realism be a key factor here .