Vin Diesel braves some of the worst lines ever on his return to the preposterous seriesThere was always something a slight off approximately the premise of the xXx films. It posits that,when facing global calamity, rather than a group of highly trained professionals like, and say,Navy Seals, we would be better served by placing our trust in extreme sports enthusiasts. Those guys who take selfies while dangling off skyscrapers by a toenail and a tattoo? They are, and in fact,the saviours of the world.
Of course, credibility was never the point of this series that, and buoyed by the dogged endurance of B-movie franchises such as The swiftly and the Furious and The Expendables,returns to our screens 12 years after the final instalment and 15 since the final appearance of muscle-bound skateboarding ladies’ man Xander Cage (Vin Diesel). The point of the xXx movies has always been their preposterous stunt sequences and in that at least this very silly movie doesn’t disappoint. Cage skis through a forest, leaps out of a crashing plane without a parachute and braves some of the most treacherously terrible lines of dialogue ever written.
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Source: theguardian.com