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xXx: State of the Union (2005)
xXx 2 - The New Bread of Foolishness
xxx2 cast - Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe, samuel l jackson, Scott Speedman Dir - lee Tamahori
the bottom line first - "It is too tough to create a good sequel" - Dir Terminator 2 (James Cameron)
This movie starts good and than by the time u spent with the movie,it will start collapsing.
This is the worst piece of direction by the director Lee Tamahori, it was not understandable that a movie being produced under the banner of Columbia pictures is miscast-ed like this, specially when considering the (new)xXx's girl friend.
Scott Speedman and Samuel L jackson were good but the rest of cast failed to show their worth. What made it more worst is the waste of money on Tank sequences. This movie lack the BEYOND BOND theme line - (as in xXx Vin diesel said "Shaken and Stirred"). The director seems to be obsessed with fly over blast situations (like car crash in Along Came a Spider's first scene) . the gizmos and gadgets wont make the movie a worth to watch - the thing that works on the silver screen is the cast and how can u make a larger than life sequence to look realistic on the screen. this is what the xXx2 lack.
The scene when xXx2 barged into the "enemy's" ship and trooper with the tank and rescuing from the bombs, the climax on the train sequence will make u bore. the movie also seems empty as there is no Single threaded phenomenon for the movie.
The "So clever " sound effects failed , as no body can explain the Escape sequence of THE xXx2 from the jail. if an helicopter was upside the jail roof, where was the crackling sound of it? Ice cube jumps in the air for a 3 to 4 seconds and suddenly one helicopter appears there he grabs his paddles and flee , and after that u will have it all, every pulse of the helicopters knocking engine. Not to forget, specially the climax following a train with a car and getting in to it while driving the car on RAILWAY TRACK.
Is this the same Lee Tamahori who directed DIE ANOTHER DAY?
And very precisely this hi-fi and confidential agency wont have any clever faces.
So the bottom line written above is no exception, too stupid and too dump for a secret agent movie- While watching the movie (if still want to go for this) please do not try to remember the "THE NEW BREAD OF SECRET AGENT" - tag-line of xXx, the vin diesel starer .
i have a better option for u - Watch JOHNNY English (ROWAN ATKINSON will prove to be a better secret agent then Ice Cube) Instead
3 out of 10 (this too is over rated)
Kaal (2005)
Great Way to kill ur TIME (kaal)
(MIS) Cast - John Abraham, Esha Deol, Vivek oberoi, Lara Dutta, Ajay devgan, Kushal Punjabi and Pameet Sethi, The movie is all about why it is happening at the ORBIT National Park, (Jim Corbet Netional Park, Uttranchal , India (RENAMED)). Any ways what was so strange there. Some mysterious killings. but as it is well known (rumored) that it is being done by a MANEATNG tigers group!!!!!!! And guess who is going there to find out what is behind the scene, (A photographer from National Geographic channel)John Abraham,- Can some body answer where are Indian FOREST OFFICERS, (ON LEAVE/or every one left the "Orbit " National Park, because they know a natgeo photographer will be here to find this out)-. was there with his Wife (Esha Deol).
and then there was Vivek Oberoi and party, vivek with his Girl Friend Lara Dutta and Kushal Punjabi plus Vihsal , (Point to be noted ) they met in a way that Vivek Oberoi's (Re Technitioned)LAND CRUISER and NAT GEO's TATA SAFARI or Mahindra SCOPIO (or something like that) both broke down and they got lift from a man diving Maruti Gypsi (moral of the story Land Crusier is not meant for Safari Ride ). Interesting.
after that three or four accidents while safari. Sound Defects (i repeat defects) -a Match stick flame felt like a blast - what will u call it EFFECT!!!!!!! oh enough of sound effects thing, where is Ajay Devgan, so here he is just before Intermission to save the life of our worthy heroic group, (mylord point to be noted Vishal was filming the scene on his SONY handy cam) .
after some two or three mysterious killing they found the real Culprit and they escape from jungle for the sake of life because they can not kill any body who is all ready dead.
They got the secret and escaped . And the most hilarious part of the movie ---> a NATGEO photographers generates his task report and wrote it as "all is done by a bhoot(GHOST) and not by the MANEATING TIGER!!!!!!!!", who is the Ghost???? - sorry sir i am not supposed to destroy a movies business for this u have to watch the movie. Better wait for VCD/DVD and rent it, because the movie is not a worth keeping
what is done by actors -- nothing!!! Lara, John and Ajay were quite talented from my point of view, before i had seen the movie. Vivek and Esha are again a not to talk about thing.
and this movie seems to be a long advertisement of SONY and NATGEO. the movie starts from a great count of media and official partners.No awards on counting them, yet been declared by Dharma productions and Red Chillies.
Do watch it if u want to kill u KAAL(TIME). Guys this is not KAAL this is AKAAL of one good Bollywood thriller.
2 out of ten.