Film Studio Synopsis: Vin Diesel stars as former extreme sports athlete Xander “xXx” Cage, notorious for his death defying public stunts. Betting he can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Xander is recruited by a NSA Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) to become a different kind of undercover agent. Enlisted for a dangerous covert mission, he must use all his extreme skills to combat a clever, organized, and ruthless enemy far beyond the scope of his experience.
The Good: The stunts. Some are actually pretty cool. Vin Diesel is also a very cool customer; too bad the writers couldn’t help out his character.
The Bad: The truly unbelievable stunts. I know why they called this movie xXx. Because in case you didn’t hear the first word extreme they wanted to say it two more times just to pound it in your head that this film is EXTREME!
xXx is so over the top you wonder if it was shooting so far over the spy genre that it wanted to be a farce or that it was so full of itself that it is truly attempting to take on the James Bond franchise. I’d say the latter. Too bad there is very little in the way of sequels except for a certain big box office number.
The jokes are a thin attempt at making up for a lack of good dialogue. And the complete attempt at updating James Bond was a bad way to go.
Frankly: Please Hollywood don’t make Vin Diesel a sarcastic, action figure like those of the past. Can’t we get some depth with our heroes? Diesel has talent; maybe one day we’ll see him in something that proves it.
In the end xXx is trying too hard, and yes trying too hard can be a bad thing.
+ charlie craine
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