The director piles on one expensive but impersonal action scene after another.
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08/23/02
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XXX (2002)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:10
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5/10
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
Top CriticNow I know what XXX stands for:Xtremely Xcruciating Xperience.
08/14/02
Top CriticCohen ... loads the film with pow.
08/14/02
Top Critic[U]nrelentingly stupid.
08/12/02
Top CriticMove over, James Bond: Vin Diesel's in the house.
08/10/02
Top CriticEssentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven.
08/09/02
Top CriticWatching [Diesel] ... is a lot more fun than staying with the ever-feebler Pierce Brosnan in his decrepit adventures as MGM tries desperately to keep the creaking Bond franchise upright.
08/09/02
Top CriticRather than 'a new breed of secret agent,' the makers of XXX have created a dumber version of Rambo, and I have just one question: YYY?
08/09/02
Top CriticIts scale and audacity, its brashness and vulgarity make it a pleasure from beginning to end -- or a guilty pleasure for those prone to guilt.
08/09/02
Top CriticIt's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins.
08/09/02
Top CriticFor all its alleged youthful fire, XXX is no less subservient to Bond's tired formula of guns, girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero.
08/09/02
Top CriticThe pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie. And Diesel isn't the actor to save it.
08/09/02
Top CriticThe racially ambiguous Diesel cuts a fine action figure. He has the glacial swagger left over from his bouncer days and looks as if he's been bench-pressing Sylvester Stallone since he was 12.
08/09/02
Top CriticUnfortunately, its efforts to pander to this pubescent demographic are often laughable.
08/09/02
Top CriticUltimately, this is a movie as generic as its title.
08/09/02
Top CriticEvery defiantly over-the-top action scene -- from high-stakes car chases to fearsome drug busts -- seizes your adrenal gland and milks it like an epileptic farmer.
08/09/02
Top CriticIn its own punk way, XXX is as good as a good Bond movie, and that's saying something.
08/09/02
Top CriticIn XXX, Diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners, and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep.
08/09/02
Top CriticThis is perhaps the silliest movie ever to certify the arrival of a major star since, well, The Fast and the Furious, the last Cohen-Diesel collaboration.
08/08/02
Top CriticA movie that feels as if it has been assembled using census charts and market research conducted at Taco Bell.
08/08/02
Top CriticLatest News for XXX
August 26, 2009:
Director Hired for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage 
The third "XXX" film has a director: Columbia has hired Ericson Core to helm "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage," which "involves Cage's return to the National Security Agency... More...
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...
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