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XXX (2002)

Director: Rob Cohen

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From Time Out Film Guide

Tattoos. Attitude. Muscles. Cueball noggins. Action sports. Attitude. Guns that look like willies. Evil Russians. Tattoos. Biggest-grossing US movie in blah-blah-yadda-yadda. Indeed, if Dubya and Dick Cheney had made their very own post-9/11 patriotic propaganda movie for the teens they need as globalisation fodder, then this would be it. Xander Cage is XXX is Vin Diesel is an action sports hero who has a problem with authority. Augustus Gibbons is Jackson with a comedy scar, who is an agent for the National Security Agency who forces XXX to foil some Russian goths who plan to plunge the free world into anarchy. Argento is the Bond Girl. Like the old action franchise, it has gadgets and explosions and one-liners and sex with women who don't talk. But don't bust a gut because you'll miss the jaw-dropping action set pieces, where Diesel's head is superimposed on to things that look a bit like snow and sky in a series of death-defying, um, stunts.

Author: GMu 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • henry said...
    Posted on Oct 02 2008 20:25 I VILL HAVE A PIC OF IT,SINSE I AMSUSCRABER OF THA MAGAZINE.
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    Posted on Oct 02 2008 20:25 I VILL HAVE A PIC OF IT,SINSE I AMSUSCRABER OF THA MAGAZINE.
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  • henry said...
    Posted on Oct 02 2008 20:25 I VILL HAVE A PIC OF IT,SINSE I AMSUSCRABER OF THA MAGAZINE.
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Cast & crew

Director: Rob Cohen

Producer: Neal H Moritz

Cast: Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L Jackson, Danny Trejo, Michael Roof, Tom Everett, Richy Müller, Werner Daehn, Eve full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Duration: 124 mins

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