Product: xXx (2002)
Rating: 4.0
Action Fan
If you're looking for a deep, meaningful flick, skip this, you're in the wrong part of the store anyway. But if you're a fan of non-stop action, great stunts and a watchable, often witty script, then this is prime stuff. The opening secene is a direct strike at the passing of James Bond to the new age an extreme sports, grunge spy. There's lot's of action, but script is surprisingly free of the cursing and nudity that has become so prevelent in most films of the genre. Instead, it stylishly focuses on the story of an extreme action fanatic forcably recruited into working as an undercover agent for the NSA sent underground into work in a Euro trash/terrorist cell. Samuel L. Jackson does a fine job with XXX version of M and there's even a young Q replete with all the gadgets. A classic GTO is the tricked out car of choice. The story may be predictable, as most of this genre is, but this is a good a ride as any - much like the blue GTO. And women (including me) can enjoy Vin Diesel, tatoos and all. He could use some acting lessons from Sean Connery or Nick Cage, but he is great to watch. All in all, just a good way to escape for a time.