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XXX
EMAILPRINTSony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 33 critic reviews
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Based on 53 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Rich Wilkes
Directed by: Rob Cohen
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 9, 2002
DVD: December 31, 2002
Running Time: 124 minutes, Color
Origin: Czech Republic / USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for violence, non-stop action sequences, sensuality, drug content and language
Starring Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, and Joe Bucaro III
Diesel stars as former extreme sports athlete Xander "XXX" Cage, notorious for his death defying public stunts. Betting he can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Xander is recruited by NSA Agent Gibbons (Jackson) to become a different kind of undercover agent.
Also On Metacritic
FILM: XXX: State of the Union
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A threat to the Bond franchise? Not a threat so much as a salute. I don't want James Bond to turn crude and muscular on me; I like the suave style. But I like Xander, too, especially since he seems to have studied Bond so very carefully.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Nancy deWolf Smith
To top it all off, no matter where you sit in the theater, no matter how far you arch back in your seat, there's no escaping the sensation that all the action on the screen is taking place about three feet from your face. I loved it.
Chicago Reader Ted Shen
Director Rob Cohen supplies plenty of gore, attitude, loud music, and extreme-sports action -- in particular, a thrilling aerial drop that's followed by a crushing avalanche.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
In terms of adrenaline, XXX is one of the most satisfying entries this summer.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
It's too ridiculous, too flatly acted, too action-packed, too, well, fun.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Diesel clearly has fun playing a character so bullish that his skin seems to be made of leather, and he's self-conscious enough to pull it off even after the film surrenders to formula.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
In Hollywood, and perhaps beyond, there's nothing more predictable than a rebel with a cause. XXX pretends otherwise, but isn't really fooling anyone -- ultimately, this is a movie as generic as its title.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
As junky as the movie is, you've gotta love its immersion in the preposterous and its naive hope that street credibility and attitude, along with a need for speed, are all that's really necessary in this big, bad world.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
As Diesel says, ''I like something fast enough to do something stupid in.'' Mission accomplished.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
Doesn't hit a home run on every action sequence -- an early bit set in Colombia is too long and too disjointed -- but there are one or two bits in the movie's latter third that are guaranteed to hook action fans.
Variety Robert Koehler
A brawny commercial attraction strategically tapping into the auds for extreme sports, spy pix, thrill rides, popcorn actioners and anyone looking to see Diesel kick butt, blow stuff up and/or take his shirt off.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Momentum, motivation and story are all swallowed by simple sensation, and the film finally exhausts itself for lack of stylistic imagination.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
The film gives good action (amid more tired spy business) but comes riddled with contradictions.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Action fans will watch their adrenaline levels redline, and those not at ease with this climax-after-climax style will white knuckle their way through to the end.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Suit #3: But what will we call the sequel? Suit #1: "XXXX"? Suit #2: Brilliant!
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Less a movie than a collection of pretty cool action set-pieces, linked together with some seriously awful acting and dialogue that even Dr. Evil couldn't deliver with a straight face.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's hard to hate a movie, even one this droolingly crass, that knows how to laugh at itself.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Charles Savage
XXX may be a celebration of jock culture stupidity, but it's also guaranteed not to produce any ZZZ's.
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Can I admit XXX is as deep as a Petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure? Because I have to confess, when special agent Xander Cage tossed two detonators onto a mountainside and outran the ensuing avalanche on a snowboard, I was digging the action.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Built of action-sport stunts, has adrenaline to spare. But, c'mon. Where is its sense of fun?
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Pumped-up, dumbed-down Bond, with tattoos instead of brains.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
For Vin Diesel, starring in XXX is a wonderfully smart career move. Too bad neither "wonderful" nor "smart" are applicable adjectives to describe this film.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The irony is that for all its "not your father's spy movie" posing, it's exactly like the later James Bond pictures: predictable, lightweight and 100 percent disposable
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Honestly, at this point in time there's no legitimate reason to confuse “bad ass” filmmaking with just plain bad. Nice GTO, though.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Eric Campos
There's a lot of goofy spy game crap going on, peppered with lesser quality action sequences. Ugh. I'm just so depressed and disappointed right now. I need a shoulder to cry on.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
All you get here for paid admission is a long and terrific avalanche scene -- state of the art, no question. Then it's over and ready to melt away, much like memories of this movie.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The movie's own style is strictly an anti-style, all pre-packaged post-punk.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Diesel himself has the personality of a golem and a knack for dialogue delivery that suggests recent oral surgery.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
In itself, XXX is not worth getting bothered about -- a half-dozen big pictures as bad as this one come out every year. At the very worst, it will kick off a pointless new movie franchise. [19 & 26 August 2002, p.174]
Washington Post Desson Thomson
Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven. The movie's retrofitted with stunts, fights, explosions, drugs, babes and cars -- not necessarily in that order.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The infuriating thing about XXX isn't that it delivers thrills and spills to moviegoers who don't know any better, but that its Hollywood hype reinforces the notion that brain-dead entertainment is what movies are all about.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Even in the summertime, the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities. Movies like XXX -- a big 000 -- don't deserve our $$$.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jason Q. gave it a7:
This was a nice action movie. Although it was not one of Vin Deseil's best movies.
Will R gave it a0:
Vin Diesel belongs in videogames, not movies. I don't know how anyone could stand watching this putrid movie. Some of the worst acting I've ever seen, terrible plot, and offensively bad dialogue. Somebody would say that the movie isn't meant to be taken seriously. Neither are James Bond or Die Hard movies and I liked them a hell of a better than this garbage. Avoid this movie like the plague. The ending was an embarrassment to any action movie. Vin Diesel needs to make another Riddick game and drop his acting career. The Boiler Room was the best acting he's ever had and he didn't even play a significant role in that movie. He is convincing as the Riddick character, too bad the only thing the last Riddick movie had going for it was the fantastic Sci-Fi environment. I would give XXX a negative score if I could.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Another save the world flick. Tries to be James Bond, but the "made for MTV" feel makes the whole thing too generic, despite some spectacular action moments. Still, those moments do warrant the film a look or two. Unfortunaly, due to the generic feel, it can't be anything more than what it is.
Marie S. gave it a 10:
Rate this movie based on what is supposed to be! It doesn't have an amazing plot because it's a good excuse for women to concentrate solely on Vin. The fight scenes and stunts were all good & he was great! However, all the guys that gave this less than a 5 are simply jealous because they'll never look quit as good as he did in fur.
Mugger Fugger gave it a 10:
I liked the part where Diesel ripped apart his handcuffs and shackles, dodged the missle, jumped out of the helicopter while shooting dual machine guns during a somersault in the air before evading bullets and a grenade and landing on a remote control motorcycle he coordinated to drive itself under him. he is so manly.
XXX Fan gave it a 10:
OK people... look at the previews... if u wanted to see a deeply intimate and quick developing plot... why the frick did u ever go to see this movie??? for us who can apprectiate the psicology of it all, this movie was great, for u a..holes who think a good movie needs characters that think for about an hour before they do anything, don't watch acton movies!!!
A movie critic gave it a 5:
This movie was very boring. Yes, it has some humor, yes, it has some good action scenes. Between those action scenes, however, is a very bad plot, and very dull scenes. Spending 15 minutes watching Vin Diesel sitting in a nightclub talking to people is one of these dull scenes. A few good action scenes, but dull overall.
