Product: xXx [VHS] (2002)
Rating: 5.0
I Loved this movie
There comes a time when the world can no longer rely on the foreign agent. No matter how suave, debonair, and sophisticated the agent is things just don't work out the same anymore. When that time is reached a new agent is needed. One who dresses like the gangs he is infiltrating, one who talks the same, and walks the same game. XXX presents that agent in a big way.Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is an extreme sports enthusiast on the run from the law. He has just stolen a senator's corvette and completed his latest stunt of taking it off the side of a bridge while filming the event for his web-site. At the after stunt celebration he is picked up by a mysterious group of men and put through the paces of multiple tests by a scarred man named Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson).When Cage completes all the tests he has everything explained to him. Gibbons is an agent for the N.S.A. looking for someone to infiltrate a gang known as Anarchy 99. Unfortunately all the "real" agents who have attempted this were discovered and dispatched immediately. Cage is given a choice between life in solitary at a federal prison or one brief infiltration of the group.Cage takes the assignment and infiltrates the gang. Unfortunately he isn't able to maintain the sullen viewpoint he had and begins to realize that he is doing something important. Naturally this leads to him helping foil Anarchy 99's plans.Simple plot right? You don't see this movie for the plot. This is a fun movie and you see it simply for the action ride. Rob Cohen (director of The Fast and the Furious) takes the audience on one heck of a thrill ride with this movie. The stunts just come one after the other and are varied to, well, the extreme. Whether driving a vette through the twisty roads, jumping motorcyles through barbed-wire, snowboarding down a mountain, or diving onto a sub this is the ultimate summer thrill ride.The pacing of the movie is perfect in that it takes you to the edge of your seat and then backs off enough to let you breathe before hitting you with the next attack. Unbelievable!!!Vin Diesel is a monster. He moves through this movie with a ferocity and grace that is stunning. One could easily see him as this character and believe he is completely at ease doing anything that is coming up in front of him.Is this a franchise movie? Only the box office can tell you that for certain but after the first outing all I can say is that Bond is going to have to kick it up a few notches in November or XXX will be the man to watch for action!