XXX: State of the Union (2005)

April 29, 2005

XXX: State of the Union (released as XXX²: The Next Level and XXX: State of Emergency outside North America) is a 2005 American action film directed by Lee Tamahori and a sequel to the 2002 film XXX. It is the second installment of the XXX film series, and 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 worked on Stealth. Cohen remained as an executive producer. Ice Cube took over the lead role as the new Triple X agent and Tamahori was brought in to direct, following the huge commercial success of the James Bond film Die Another Day, which he directed. 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 was a box-office bomb and it was criticized by reviewers, mainly for the performances, an illogical story, and overuse of CGI-based visual effects for most of the action sequences. State of the Union is the last film in the XXX film series to be distributed by Columbia Pictures, as Paramount Pictures became the distributor for its future films, starting with Return of Xander Cage in 2017.

Skywalker Sound provided the Post Production Sound Services: Christopher Boyes is the Sound Designer; Frank Eulner and Tom Bellfort are the Supervising Sound Editors (this is Bellfort's final credit on a Skywalker Sound project, though Soundelux might've been one of the other and uncredited post production sound service on the film); Tim Nielsen, J.R. Grubbs and Kyrsten Mate are the Sound Effects Editors; Shannon Mills, Jonathan Null and Marshall Winn are the foley editors; Lisa Chino is the assistant sound effects editor; Andre Fenley is the assistant sound editor, and Dee Selby is the assistant sound design(er).

Also See

• XXX (2002)
• XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

Sound Effects Used

• Hollywoodedge, 35mm Still Camera Sho PE179001
• Hollywoodedge, Bullet Bounces Off Fr PE115001
• Hollywoodedge, Bullet Impact Sweete PE115201
• Hollywoodedge, Car Alarm Rapid Highp PE075001
• Hollywoodedge, Car Crash Small 1 Shor PE111901
• Hollywoodedge, Car Skid Short Medium TE047102
• Hollywoodedge, Crash Metal Shatter PE110201
• Hollywoodedge, Crash Metal Shatter PE110401
• Hollywoodedge, Crash Metal Shatter PE110501
• Hollywoodedge, Doppler Horn By LeftT PE079801
• Hollywoodedge, Explosion Large Shar PE097801
• Hollywoodedge, Large Shatter Window PE283602
• Hollywoodedge, Lincoln Town Car In Sk PE073501
• Hollywoodedge, Medium Impact With Debri PE281001
• Hollywoodedge, Multiple Single Bull PE236501
• Hollywoodedge, Screams 7 Woman Three PE134101
• Hollywoodedge, Single Bullet Impact PE236401
• Hollywoodedge, Warning Buzzer Space PE194501
• IOS Camera Sound
• SKYWALKER BODYFALL SOUNDS
• SKYWALKER BULLET RICOCHET 01 (Normal and very high-pitched edits)
• SKYWALKER BULLET RICOCHET 03
• SKYWALKER BULLET RICOCHET 10
• SKYWALKER CONCRETE BREAKING SOUNDS
• SKYWALKER, CROWD - SCREAM IN PANIC
• SKYWALKER, ELECTRICITY - SINGLE SPARK CHIRP 01
• SKYWALKER, ELECTRICITY - WHISTLE-LIKE SPARK WHINE
• SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 01
• SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 05 (Processed into a very high pitch)
• SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 07
• SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 12
• SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 13 (modified)
• SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 14
• SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 16
• SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - BIG CRUNCH (Various pitches for water splashes.)
• SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - CRASHED METAL SQUEAKING ACCENT
• SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - MASSIVE EXPLOSION, LOUD, HYPER-REALISTIC
• SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - MASSIVE INFERNO ROARING (normal and -12 pitch edits)
• SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - SHARP, MUFFLED BLAST
• SKYWALKER GRENADE LAUNCHING SOUND
• SKYWALKER HIGH-PITCHED POW SOUND
• SKYWALKER, HISS - MECHANICAL EJECT HISS
• SKYWALKER, JET - ARTOO'S ROCKET THRUSTERS
• SKYWALKER, METAL - BIG VEHICLE CRASH (very high-pitched)
• SKYWALKER METAL CRASHING SOUND
• SKYWALKER METAL, SQUEAK - BIG METAL SQUEAK WITH HINGE
• SKYWALKER, METAL - QUICK DOUBLE SQUEAK 02
• SKYWALKER PUNCHING SOUNDS
• SKYWALKER, SCI-FI - ROBOT PROBE'S EYE SENSOR
• SKYWALKER, WHOOSH - ARTILLERY FALL 01
• SKYWALKER, WHOOSH - METALLIC PIECES FLY BY
• Sound Ideas, ELECTRICITY, SPARK - HIGH VOLTAGE SPARK, ELECTRICAL 02 (-12 pitch for an explosion from an open pipe)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, HANDGUN - PISTOL SHOTS WITH SILENCER, MORE WHIZZY
• Unknown Sound Effects Library, Metal Creaking

Image Gallery

• XXX: State of the Union (2005)/Image Gallery

External Links

• Skywalker Sound