Rating: PG13
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 04/29/2005(USA)
Release Date: 07/26/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
A new renegade fighter rises to defend the United States from an internal threat in this
action thriller.
Augustus Gibbons (
Samuel L. Jackson) of the National Security Agency has successfully dealt with a number of threats to America's safety, but he faces a whole new challenge when he discovers a potent terrorist cell that has ties to the upper levels of the American military.
Gibbons learns that
George Deckert (
Willem Dafoe), the secretary of defense, has been training a secret military faction to stage a coup against the United States by kidnapping and assassinating the president of the United States (
Peter Strauss). Convinced there's no one he can trust within his circle of operatives,
Gibbons turns to
Darius Stone (
Ice Cube), currently serving time in a maximum security penitentiary.
Stone once served with
Gibbons in the Army, and also took part in a mutiny against
Deckert; despite his reckless side,
Gibbons is certain
Stone's fearless nature and peerless fighting skills make him the one man who can take on
Deckert and his troops.
XXX: State of the Union is the sequel to the 2002 hit
XXX, though neither star
Vin Diesel nor his character,
Xander Cage, appear in this picture.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide