Action
Adventure
Crime
Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.
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Vin Diesel
Xander Cage
Donnie Yen
Xiang
Ruby Rose
Adele Wolff
Deepika Padukone
Serena Unger
Toni Collette
Jane Marke
Samuel L. Jackson
Agent Augustus Gibbons
Ice Cube
Darius Stone …
Rory McCann
Tennyson Torch
Nina Dobrev
Rebecca 'Becky' Clearidge
Tony Jaa
Talon
Kris Wu
Nicks
Hermione Corfield
Ainsley
Michael Bisping
Hawk
Shawn Roberts
Jonas
Tony Gonzalez
Paul Donovan
Andrey Ivchenko
Red Erik
Nicky Jam
Lazarus
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I must confess that I did have higher hopes for this movie. I’m not sure what the script writers was up to when writing it but they really seem to have a very low opinion of the audience’s intelligence. Either that or it was written for a very young audience.
There were parts of the movie that was quite fun to watch but on the whole it was pretty much a mess. It is a shame because it had quite a bit of promise. The core of the plot was not too bad although I really wish that Hollywood writers would stay away from plots involving computer gadgetry. Their knowledge in that area simply stinks. Thus the gadget that the entire movie was spun around was simply stupid.
Unfortunately another core plot element was the crooked CIA (or whatever department it was supposed to be) boss that of course had to do some senseless backstabbing just to prolong the movie. Tiresome, overused and boring. I know, I know with fucktards like Comey I guess one could say that it would not be too far from the truth but it is still tiresome, overused and boring.
Since I am on a rant anyway let’s go on to the various stunts and special effects. It is a long time since I watched a movie where the stunts were so obviously and totally overdone and unrealistic. I mean, they were unrealistic to the point where I started to wander if it was a slapstick comedy I was watching.
All of this really dragged down the movie … a lot!
On the good side. I did like many of the wacky characters. It is a shame that many of their wacky moments were less of a comic relief due to the above mentioned silliness but instead felt like the more serious moments in the movie.
Vin Diesel, well I watched this movie because I am a Vin Diesel fan so of course I liked him. He is his usual badass and kick ass self. He is also surrounded by a bunch of badass (and wacky as I mentioned before) characters. I quite liked the ensemble. The guy who seems to collect crashes is rather silly but fun in a strange way. I did like the gun girl a lot.
However, apart from quite a few fun and/or cool scenes the movie as a whole did not cut it. In my opinion it was ruined by a substandard script devoid of any form of intelligence. I would go as far as to say that the writers were incompetent pure and simple. I was almost giving it three stars because there was many parts I liked but in the end … no, there is no way I could justify more than two stars for this mess.
Really a shame. I would have liked to see more xXx movies but after this one I’m not sure anyone will bet money on that.
Dark Jedi12 Jun, 2017
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