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NUMBERS
Box Office: $141,134,092
VHS Rentals: $18,860,000
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CONSENSUS
Though peddled as a new brand of spy movie, XXX is really just more of the same old thing.
CAST & CREW
Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Asia Argento
Directed by Rob Cohen
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SYNOPSIS
This amped action drama stars Vin Diesel as Xander (aka Triple X), a rebellious extreme sports star with a mission to defy authority and create anarchy. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, violence, non-stop action sequences, sensuality, drug content and language
RUNTIME
2 hours, 4 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 9, 2002
Video: May 13, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Sports, Spy, Violence, Secret Agents
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official XXX Site
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 "Triple X is a double agent, and he's one bad dude. When you’ve got the wildly popular Vin Diesel in the equation, it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
 "All the amped-up Tony Hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that, really, we've been here, done that."
-- Kevin Williamson, JAM! MOVIES
"A mediocre exercise in target demographics, unaware that it's the butt of its own joke."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"For all its posturing, XXX essentially is a James Bond movie refitted for the Tony Hawk crowd."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Bond-inspired? Certainly. Likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise? Let’s hope not."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Don't walk into the theater expecting anything other than fist-pumping action."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"...although this idea is "new" the results are tired."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"The AAA of action, XXX is a blast of adrenalin, rated EEE for excitement. And Vin Diesel is the man."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"If you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of humor, then Triple X marks the spot."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Despite its detriments, xXx is entertaining -- mostly for one reason: Diesel."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"It's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'The Loud and the Ludicrous'...the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"“XXX” so often gets the fun of the superhero genre exactly right that its faults are that much more tragic. It could have been so much more than it is."
-- Steven Snyder, ZERTINET MOVIES
"It’s dumb fun slapped silly, a new franchise inspired by the Bond films that’s not far from the porn its title promises; the film is a veritable orgy of outrageous stunts."
-- Christopher Smith, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (MAINE)
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"Call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie, but I believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"None of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of Bond, but much of it is good for a laugh. The problem with "XXX" is that its own action isn't very effective."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"This would-be 'James Bond for the Extreme Generation' pic is one big, dumb action movie. Stress 'dumb.'"
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Never mind that it's often crude, gauche, and obnoxious. It never pretends to be otherwise, and in its flagrant honesty, it earns a strange sort of respect."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"xXx re-engineers Bond for a savvier, more cynical generation."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"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?"
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Let's face it, even Vin's fake tats have more charisma than Pierce Brosnan."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, DALLAS OBSERVER
"Is the time really ripe for a warmed-over James Bond adventure, with a village idiot as the 007 clone?"
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"You can watch, giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless, XXX achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
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ROTTEN 29%
Avg. Rating: 5.1/10 |
"In XXX, Diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners, and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"For all its alleged youthful fire, XXX is no less subservient to Bond's tired formula of guns, girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"More busy than exciting, more frantic than involving, more chaotic than entertaining."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Cohen ... loads the film with pow."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Every defiantly over-the-top action scene -- from high-stakes car chases to fearsome drug busts -- seizes your adrenal gland and milks it like an epileptic farmer."
-- Scott Steinberg, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"It's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"Even in the summertime, the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"The pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie. And Diesel isn't the actor to save it."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"[U]nrelentingly stupid."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"It's got the brawn, but not the brains."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"It's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy; Diesel, with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly."
-- Vanessa Sibbald, ZAP2IT.COM
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "XXX" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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