History Film / XXXStateOfTheUnion

* CoolGuns: Deckert's goons use XM8 assault rifles (actually disguised G36s).

** There's no way the car in the final scene would have the necessary traction to drive as fast or as fluidly as it does when it was riding train tracks on just its rims. When you see trucks do this in real life, they have a fold-up set of train wheels precisely for this purpose. That is to accommodate for the difference between the track gauge on the train and the axle track on the car, if they are both the same then a car can ride the rails like that. Hell they did it in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' didn’t they.

** There's no way the car in the final scene would have the necessary traction to drive as fast or as fluidly as it does when it was riding train tracks on just its rims. When you see trucks do this in real life, they have a fold-up set of train wheels precisely for this purpose. That is the accommodate for the difference between the wheelbase on the train and the wheelbase on the car if they are both the same then a car can ride the rails like that. Hell they did it in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' didn’t they.

* MsFanservice: The movie throws in two contrasting ones: the first is Lola Jackson, Darius' old flame who became an expensive car saleswoman (African American and clad in a black suit); the second is Charlie Mayweather, who turns out to be TheDarkChick and part of the military conspiracy to overthrow the President (blonde, Caucasian, and initially clad in white until her allegiance becomes clear and she switches to black). Their outfits emphasized their cleavage in particular.

** There's no way the car in the final scene would have the necessary traction to drive as fast or as fluidly as it does when it was riding train tracks on just its rims. When you see trucks do this in real life, they have a fold-up set of train wheels precisely for this purpose.

* WaxingLyrical: Darius spouts "Wars come and go, but my soldiers remain eternal". Gibbons assumes it was by Patton or Ceasar. It's actually from "Ballad of Dead Soldier" by Music/TupacShakur. Becomes a BrickJoke when the president uses the quote in a speech.

* QuoteMine: [[BigBad Secretary Of Defense]] [[GeneralRipper General Deckert]] has the President at gunpoint as part of the former's plan to overthrow the U.S. Government. The President asks why Deckert is doing this, to which he responds by quoting UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson selectively and gets called out on it by the President. Which, [[FridgeLogic given the context of the rebel speaking to the leader he's overthrowing]], should not be as devastating a retort as it's played as. Shooting himself in the foot really, unless Deckert genuinely thinks of himself as the tyrant in that situation.

* UpToEleven: Stone is said to have made the highest dive in the Navy history at 250 ft. The current world record is 177 ft and it ended in serious injury, like virtually all jumps from more than 150 ft.

* SpiesAreLecherous: Subverted. Darius Stone is recruited by the agency out of a military prison to save the country from a sinister conspiracy, but he [[IgnoreTheFanservice routinely ignores pursuing women]] to focus on his real vice: food. When a bored TrophyWife takes him back to her villa for some hanky panky, he asks for fries and a shake when she offers him "anything you want". [[spoiler:Turns out, it was a set-up to frame him for murder.]] While it's implied that Darius and Lola used to be lovers, they are not so in the present, and their interactions never go beyond mild flirting.