Review – XXX

Usually when one goes to a movie with three Xes on the poster, not to mention someone who looks and dresses like Vin Diesel, one expects something a little different. Rather than “Acres of Ass Part 18,” what we get is James Bond repackaged for the X-Games generation. So instead of skis and European sports cars we get snowboarding and a GT. Despite our hero’s humble origins, the NSA manages to make him into a formidable opponent for ex-Russian-military anarchists bent on turning bio-weapons loose on the world. Gadgets aplenty. Chase scenes. Explosions. An endless parade of thou-dost-protest-too-much models. Despite feeling no particular need for a twenty-something reheat of spy movie business as usual, I have to admit that I enjoyed this picture more than I thought I was going to. Maybe it was the company. Mildly amusing