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This week I?m talking about DVDs.
Nothing really exciting came out in theatres this weekend, and two somewhat exciting movies are coming out on DVD on Tuesday.
The two movies I?m talking about are The Upside of Anger and xXx: State of Union.
These may seem like rather odd choices of movies to be excited about ? neither of them did particularly well at the box office ? but on their merits, each one has something to offer.
First off, the Upside of Anger.
I hesitate to use the term ?chick-flick? for a variety of reasons. I think the expression degrades women, and I think it sells men short. But most importantly, I don?t want to use the term ?chick-flick? because I plan on tackling that genre more thoroughly in a later column.
However, while the Upside of Anger may not be a chick-flick, it is most certainly a movie geared towards women.
In a nutshell, the film focuses on Terry Wolfmeyer, played by Joan Allen, and her four daughters who have to cope after Terry?s husband disappears ? presumably on a fling with his Swedish secretary.
In a much broader sense, the film is about five women coping with their emotions, their lives, and the men who complicate them.
Kevin Costner stars opposite Allen as a washed-up, alcoholic baseball star, who helps console Wolfmeyer after her husband leaves.
Both actors put in solid performances, proving once again that they are actors to be reckoned with.
In the end, I really liked this one. It?s a lot more interesting and a lot less predictable than I expected.
Moreover, while the film has a dry humour that breaks through now and then, it doesn?t sacrifice the drama and believability of the characters.
However, in the end, this is a ?film geared towards women,? and as such I was much more comfortable with the second title on the slate, xXx: State of the Union.
I was really excited going into State of the Union, because I was one of the people who really liked the original xXx with Vin Diesel.
The original xXx didn?t do so well, and a lot of people will disagree with me, but let me make a case for why it was a great movie.
xXx was a big action movie with lots of explosions, and not much intelligence, but that?s the nature of the genre.
The character of triple-X, played by Diesel, makes for a good hero, and having an extreme-sports star as a secret agent justifies a lot of the unnecessary stunts.
So, despite the fact that it was a sequel, I went into xXx: State of the Union with high hopes.
For one thing, Ice Cube is one of the few rappers who along with Mos Def and perhaps Will Smith, has actually turned out to be a decent actor. He doesn?t deliver the lines with any particular depth, but then, Arnold Schwarzenegger could barely speak English, and it didn?t hurt his performance as an action star.
That being said, to say that I was disappointed by xXx: State of the Union would be a gross understatement.
Ice Cube was lukewarm.
Willem Dafoe, playing the villain, was good, but he looked like he belonged in a better movie.
Samuel L. Jackson pulled out a mediocre performance too, and wasn?t in it nearly as much as he should have been.
But aside from acting problems, there was one glaring problem with the whole thing.
It was terrible.
An orgy of nonstop, senseless violence, punctuated by plot holes and painful one-liners, the whole thing has virtually no redeeming qualities, and an endless list of faults.
I would try to sum up the plot, but to be honest, there wasn?t one. Any plot that snuck into the movie was just there to justify larger explosions, and pointless chase scenes.
So if you?re looking for a senseless evening of entertainment, this might be the movie for you; if you?re looking to shut your brain off for two hours and just watch explosions and gunfights, this might be the movie for you.
Otherwise, stay away from xXx: State of the Union, and if you do rent it, don?t say I didn?t warn you.
