Product: xXx [VHS] (2002)
Rating: 1.0
James Bond for the MTV drones
Poor Sam Jackson. It's a pity seeing his talents go to waste in a supporting role in this mainstream crowd pleaser that is really a vehicle for wanna-be action superstar Vin Diesel. Rob Cohen, director of the equally dreadful Fast & The Furious is at the helm here, and the results are nothing better. XXX is nothing more than James Bond for the MTV drones the world over, replacing a suave, classy secret agent with an overgrown, over muscled, and marketable "actor" who is saddled with the label of being the next big action hero. Funny thing is that Vin Diesel actually can act underneath the muscle and bald head (watch Saving Private Ryan or Boiler Room and see what I mean), but his acting talents go to waste here just as they did in Fast & The Furious and he is nothing more than eye candy and box office draw for young teen girls swooning over tickets to a Linkin Park conert. Ethnic stereotypes are abound as well, not to mention some very choppy edits in action sequences, and the rest of XXX is just mindnumbing. All in all, if you want to see an exceptional film, watch Minority Report or Blood Work instead of this, your braincells will thank you later.