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Action, Adventure, Thriller

Asia Argento	Yelena
Vin Diesel	Xander Cage
Marton Csokas	Yorgi
Tom Everett	Senator Dick Hotchkiss
Michael Roof	Agent Toby Lee Shavers
Samuel L. Jackson	Agent Augustus Gibbons
Jan Pavel Filipensky	Viktor
Danny Trejo	El Jefe
Thomas Ian Griffith	Agent Jim McGrath
Werner Dähn	Kirill
Richy Müller	Milan Sova
Petr Jákl	Kolya (as Petr Jakl)

Director	Rob Cohen
Producer	Neal H. Moritz
Writer	Rich Wilkes

Vin Diesel is no James Bond, and he doesn't want to be. That's why XXX announced Diesel as the adrenalin-junkie Bond of the PlayStation generation, copying the Bond formula so shamelessly that this action-packed silliness would be a Bond movie if it starred Pierce Brosnan. Reuniting Diesel with his Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen, XXX has an attitude (if not a brain) all its own, plucking Diesel's Xander Cage from his celebrity as an extreme sports renegade, recruited by a National Security Agency big shot (Samuel L. Jackson) to foil a nasty Czech villain (Marton Csokas) who's eager to depopulate Prague with remote-controlled biological weaponry. Toss in a sulky, sultry Russian agent (Asia Argento) and you've got extreme Bond-age for anyone who thinks tuxedos are passé. With a handful of eye-popping action sequences, XXX launched a movie franchise with a cool guy, another cool muscle car, and plenty of box-office sizzle. --Jeff Shannon