Almost as cool as the first xXx but ice cubeThe First xXx steals his car guns and his team . I do really like this new xXx protagonist 2nd best xXx . Some really cool action scenes and an okay plot.The action and cinematography are decent the music was a bit better than the first Pretty good not the worst thing ever that's the 3rd xXx watch this if you liked the original and explosions guns and girls 6.5 out of 10 :D

The movie beginning is not too bad, but very soon the obnoxiousness of the hero starts to grate on my nerves.Attitude, yeah. They certainly cranked it up! In the worst way! Seriously, it's embarrassing. The sexism, the macho behaviour, the gratuitous putting down of the nerd guy (despite the fact that he provided all the needed tool for the job), are some of the worst I've ever seen in any movie...According to this movie, to be "A MAN" you must use plenty of guns, act violently -and without any brains-, love BIG cars, talk "tough" and all the absurd -obsolete- stereotypes you can imagine. PATHETIC.And to be respected as "A WOMAN", you must be a top model and show that you know about BIG cars as much as the hero (so, she's in fact a man?). DOUBLE PATHETIC. (Seriously, that scene in the garage with the luxury cars was super cringy)Too bad because despite being really over the top, the story is not that bad (for a B movie) and has some twists that are more clever than you'd expect. But it does not excuse the obnoxious characters.

True, it's nothing at all like the first installment starring Vin Diesel. However, viewed on its own, the film isn't at all that bad. It's actually a gritty political thriller about a deranged Secretary of Defense trying to become president of the United States through a coup d'état. Willem Dafoe plays the part of the Secretary of Defense mightily well. I have my thoughts and reservations about Ice Cube playing the new XXX. And Samuel L. Jackson as Gibbons was not his best role.Not the best political thriller around, and nowhere near the popularity of a Jerry Bruckheimer film, but if Plan 9 from Outer Space has a fan base, there's hope.

A secret underground NSA bunker is attacked and Agent Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) barely escapes. Sixteen agents are killed. Gibbons selects prison inmate Darius Stone (Ice Cube) as the new XXX agent. Stone escapes from prison with Gibbons' help and meets up with his crime partner Zeke (Xzibit) and ex-girlfriend Lola Jackson (Nona Gaye). Stone has to go back to the NSA bunker to retrieve a computer drive while being guarded by agent Kyle Steele (Scott Speedman). General Deckert (Willem Dafoe) is behind the scheme to heighten the threat to the nation. Stone was in prison for hitting him and now he's the Secretary of Defense.Simply put, this franchise misses Vin Diesel. This is no way to build a new franchise. The plot never really matters in these. The first one wasn't a work of genius. It was Vin Diesel playing around in ridiculous Bond plus adventures. The plot is as overblown and incoherent as the first one. I don't have any major problems with Ice Cube. He brings a completely different vibe. That's not really the important point. The important point is he's different. Anyways, he's not better by any means.