XXX: State of the Union
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| Directed by | Lee Tamahori |
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| Written by | Simon Kinberg |
| Based on | Characters by Rich Wilkes |
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| Music by | Marco Beltrami |
| Cinematography | David Tattersall |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $60 million |
| Box office | $71.1 million |
xXx: State of the Union (released as xXx: The Next Level outside North America and released in Brazil as Triplo X 2: Estado de Ermegência), is a 2005 American action film directed by Lee Tamahori. It is a sequel to the 2002 film xXx, and the second installment of the xXx franchise. The film was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures.
Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen, the lead actor and director of the original, had signed onto a sequel before the first film had opened, but both dropped out as Diesel disliked the script, while Cohen was busy making Stealth; Cohen remained as an executive producer. Ice Cube took over the lead role as the new xXx agent and Tamahori was brought in to direct, following the huge commercial success of the James Bond film Die Another Day, which he directed. State of the Union is also the last xXx film to be distributed by Columbia Pictures, as well as the last one to be produced by Original Film; Paramount Pictures made the sequel, Return of Xander Cage, which was released in 2017.
Two different scripts were prepared for the film, and the one written by Simon Kinberg was selected; the other script featured a radically different plot. State of the Union under-performed at the box office and was criticized by reviewers, mainly for the performances, an illogical story, and overuse of CGI-influenced visual effects for most of the action sequences.
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