Product: xXx [VHS] (2002)
Rating: 4.0
A Total Testosterone-Laced, Adrenaline Driven Action Flick!
This movie to totally cool. It's got explosions, big guns, fast cars, extreme sports, sultry women in lingerie and expolsions.Vin Diesel plays Xander Cage, an extreme sports fanatic who gets busted for stealing a Senator's car and driving it off a bridge. Of course, it was only a Corvette. But the NSA needs someone like Cage to foil a suspected terrorist organization, especially after its last agent was killed (while wearing a tux in a smash pit[talk about old-fashioned]) so it grabs Cage and puts him through a series of tests and sens him to Prague. There Cage infiltrates Anarchy99 by partying with them and stealing cars. He learns that the leader (Csokas) wants to destroy the world with biological weapons so that everyone will be truly free. Cage foils him with the help of a sultry Russian agent and the Czech police in a ball-busting shoot-em-up. Cage then must recover a sub carrying the weapon headed for Prague, which he does in extreme fashion. The threat over, Cage goes to Bora-Bora with the Russian until next time.This flick is a shameless rip-off of Bond movies but it doesn't care and makes up for unoriginality with flair and a touch-in-cheek attitude that makes the viewer unconcerned about it. Diesel looks like he has a great time playing the anti-hero with more one-liners than Schwarzenegger and a "Kiss My ... Scarface" attitude.While definitely a guy flick, I saw several single women in th audience, too so I gues it appeals to everyone.Go see it and be prepared to pound your chest after it's over.