starring: Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Roof

rated: R

plot: Vin Diesel stars as Xander "xXx" Cage, a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when NSA Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) wants to infiltrate a Russian crime ring, he knows there's only one man for the job. He makes a deal with xXx, offering him freedom from prosecution if he'll use his extreme athletic skills and attitude to go undercover.

official website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/triplex/

review: Caught this movie on opening night in a crowded theater (yes, another one ). This is what you would call a "vehicle" movie, one obviously created to take advantage of Vin Diesel's popularity from "the Fast and the Furious". Apparently he's added a couple new tattoo's and dropped a couple pounds to complete the vision for today's "leading actor".

Set mostly during winter in Prague, the scenery was beautiful, the action scenes action-packed (great avalanche scene), and the lines somewhat predictable. Boy gets picked up by NSA, boy meets girl, boy almost gets girl killed, girl saves boy's butt, boy saves world. Kind a cross between James Bond and Mr T. "I pity tha fool who scratches my GTO". - you get the picture.

With lots of cool gadgets, cool cars, and cool people with bad teeth, this movie has it all for the action-genre lover. Violence (no gore) and mildish language earn the "R" rating, I'd recommend it for those over 17 who liked the "fast and furious" movie.

Best Line: Xander Cage: The things I'm gonna do for my country.

rating: (out of 5)

I think I will go see it just cause Vin Deisel is in it, silly plot or not.

I'm way out of the loop; I don't even know who Vin Deisel is.

recognize him?

Um, yeah. I think he mugged me a few weeks ago. Eeewww...??