xXx (2002)

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  TheMovieDiorama

  5 / 10

  xXx is a typical standard action movie. I'm talking explosions, gadgets, guns...problem is it's just a more hyper version of James Bond. Some may like that, I personally felt it to be unoriginal...yet still enjoyable. The stunt work is fantastic, and very well filmed too. Driving off a bridge, extreme snowboarding down a mountain with an avalanche, jumping with a bike through a fence...it's not often you see great stunt work. The acting was serviceable for what the film is, Vin Diesel has screen presence which is all you can ask for. The editing for the action scenes was clear and watchable. The soundtrack was suitable, I mean it's not every day you see a film that includes Rammstein as their intro song. Just epic. However, the plot is generic. An underground group of Russians want to destroy cities with a chemical weapon, yawwwwn! The villain was unmemorable and boring. Any film set in Eastern Europe just has to have underground clubs, so even the locations were predictable. It just felt too James Bond, even with the gadgets Xander was given...exploding bandages? Come on! In the end it's just a standard action film, impressive in its action elements on screen but lacking in plot, acting and originality.

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