Mark Goes to the Movies

XXX: State of the Union (dir. Lee Tamahori) I know I'm going to have homeboy Diesel's peeps all up in my business, but I actually like Ice Cube better as the badass hero in this. There's something endearing about watching this tubby little guy who always looks pissed off jump off of buildings and kung fu bad guys (not to mention demonstrate his skills as a mack daddy!). And while I'm kind of distressed a director who once made so raw and harrowing a film as Once Were Warriors is another in the long line of art house heroes turned high-priced Hollywood whores, at least he knows the #1 and #2 rules of Movies for Testosterone-Poisoned 12-Year Olds: (1) Make sure every woman in the movie (including, God bless her game little heart, the beautiful Nona Gaye, Marvin's daughter) is dressed like a Penthouse Pet of the Month and (2) Make sure something big blows up every ten minutes tops. And hell, he edits videogame footage as well as all those ex-MTV-video guys. Mark's review (stupid points): ????