As an action director, Mr. Cohen is competent, but this film -- which is pretty much as non-stop as an action movie can get -- needed a director with a little more finesse.
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07/14/07
XXX (2002)
47 %
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Reviews Counted: 173
Fresh: 82
Rotten:91
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Consensus: Though peddled as a new brand of spy movie, XXX is really just more of the same old thing.
Theatrical Release:Aug 9, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $141,134,092
Synopsis: This amped action drama stars Vin Diesel as Xander (aka Triple X), a rebellious extreme sports star with a mission to defy authority and create anarchy. In the dramatic opening scene of the movie,... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas
Director: Rob Cohen
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Reviews for XXX
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.
06/24/06
Okay, that’s it. My summer of movies has been completely pissed on.
12/06/05
Not since the days when Joel Silver ruled Hollywood and musclebound subliterates vied for supremacy on the big screen has the industry spawned a phenomenon as garish and confounding as Vin Diesel.
12/06/05
Cohen's brainless bombast proves to be a perfect fit for this shamelessly, deliciously ridiculous reinvention of James Bond-style spy shenanigans.
01/07/05
XXX seems like a missed opportunity -- not a commercial one, mind you, because the flick will no doubt make a mint -- but as an honest-to-goodness re-evaluation of spy flicks and their relevancy to an ever more youthful audience.
02/01/04
really just boring
01/10/04
XXX is a dream role for an action star, and ... Diesel is the perfect man for the job.
01/06/04
The filmmakers are so intent on bludgeoning their audience into submission that after 10 minutes you've become numb.
09/06/03
XXX happily wallows in the fact that it’s 100-percent loopy, kinetic and silly.
06/27/03
The wondrous opening sequence was better than any Bond film, and things were looking up until the characters started talking.
05/20/03
Sporadically entertaining, this is nevertheless seriously hampered by a very choppy screenplay.
03/02/03
Bond-inspired? Certainly. Likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise? Let’s hope not.
02/12/03
For an action-packed, brain-dead testosterone fest, I have to admit Rob Cohen's XXX isn't that bad.
02/08/03
A thrilling ride with plenty of style and lots of unbelievability.
01/08/03
A PlayStation game come to life, XXX is a movie almost exclusively dependent on the special effects department and the charm of its leading man, Vin Diesel. But it's sound and fury signifying nothing.
12/18/02
Vin may not yet be a Bond, or a Terminator, or even Conan the Barbarian. But he's got presence and charisma.
11/19/02
It may be stupid, but it knows it’s stupid, although it definitely drags in the middle and could have done with being twenty minutes shorter.
10/30/02
None of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of Bond, but much of it is good for a laugh. The problem with "XXX" is that its own action isn't very effective.
10/23/02
I think Diesel is a movie star-in-the-making: He's got the shape and glare of an early Stallone.
10/17/02
Latest News for XXX
June 10, 2009:
Rob Cohen Backs Out of XXX Sequel 
If a third "XXX" movie ends up getting made, it'll most likely be without director Rob Cohen, who has ankled the project in favor of a New Regency project Cohen's describing as... More...
May 12, 2009:
Michael Ferris Talks NexXxt Xander Cage Sequel
Good news, fans of the letter X -- screenwriter Michael Ferris tells Collider that a draft of the next "xXx" sequel will be delivered to the studio next week. More...
April 02, 2009:
Total Recall: Vin Diesel's Best-Reviewed Movies
With the release of Fast & Furious this Friday, Vin Diesel joins the elite ranks of actors who have starred in franchises that have spun off more than two sequels. Now that Vin... More...
November 17, 2008:
Ferris and Brancato Circle XXX Sequel
Michael Ferris and John Brancato are in early talks with Columbia Pictures to write the script for the upcoming "XXX" sequel, "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage." More...
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