03-02-2016, 03:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-02-2016, 03:56 PM by Drunk Monk.)
There's been some buzz on xXx3 because Tony Jaa and Jet Li were cast in it, then Donnie Yen bumped Jet out. It also is going to feature one of my fav Bollywood starlets Deepika Padukone, and the one and only Sam L. Jackson and the one and only Danny Trejo (although his cameo here is short as his snickers commercial). So I figured I'd check in on this again via Netflix as I totally forgot the original (it was before the forum here, so outside of my memory banks).
xXx is an outrageously gratuitous action film, dumb as a box of rocks, but there's a lot of explosions - real explosions - and only a minimal amount of CGI as it was 2002. The stunts are ridiculous. Xander Cage is ridiculous. It's ridiculously dumb. But so is a lot of stuff I watch so what am I saying here? It's interesting to juxtapose this franchise with Vin's F&F franchise because it's kind of the same idea - rogue adrenaline junkies are the only people capable of taking down some random international gang of thieves. Sam Jackson is particularly amusing because his Eugene Gibbons is basically the same as Nick Fury in his Marvel flicks, only instead of having an eye-patch, he has some odd facial scar (and a far far superior first name). Also amusing was that Marton Csokas played the main villain. Greg and Dm are old pals of Marton's. We all hung out at the Into the Badlands premiere. Okay, that's not really true as we didn't engage Marton at all. Frankly, I didn't even know who he was prior to ItB. I still don't. But he was in this. I should mention that I'm not a huge fan of VD. He's got a great voice, but he always looks kind of like a pale skinny Shrek to me. Skinny isn't quite the right word because he's hecka yoked, but his face, that's the Shrekkish part.
Anyway, the film sorely needed a sword fight. I may watch xXx2, just to be fully prepared for xXx3 next year.
xXx is an outrageously gratuitous action film, dumb as a box of rocks, but there's a lot of explosions - real explosions - and only a minimal amount of CGI as it was 2002. The stunts are ridiculous. Xander Cage is ridiculous. It's ridiculously dumb. But so is a lot of stuff I watch so what am I saying here? It's interesting to juxtapose this franchise with Vin's F&F franchise because it's kind of the same idea - rogue adrenaline junkies are the only people capable of taking down some random international gang of thieves. Sam Jackson is particularly amusing because his Eugene Gibbons is basically the same as Nick Fury in his Marvel flicks, only instead of having an eye-patch, he has some odd facial scar (and a far far superior first name). Also amusing was that Marton Csokas played the main villain. Greg and Dm are old pals of Marton's. We all hung out at the Into the Badlands premiere. Okay, that's not really true as we didn't engage Marton at all. Frankly, I didn't even know who he was prior to ItB. I still don't. But he was in this. I should mention that I'm not a huge fan of VD. He's got a great voice, but he always looks kind of like a pale skinny Shrek to me. Skinny isn't quite the right word because he's hecka yoked, but his face, that's the Shrekkish part.
Anyway, the film sorely needed a sword fight. I may watch xXx2, just to be fully prepared for xXx3 next year.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
