xXx could've been something out of this world. An extreme sports nut is recruited into an agency. What is there to expect? Kick ass action, bad jokes and good fun. Did we get it? Well.. There is lots of action, but it is so soulless and pointless. The jokes are good ("knocked over a few 7-11s, have we?"), but there are like three of them. Fun? More like disappointment.
After movies like Dragonheart, Daylight and especially The Fast and The Furious, we had every right to expect this to be nothing short of a good Bond knock-off from director Cohen. The idea is great, but the whole movie just feels so depressingly shallow, like Cohen's creative vain would have just dried up.
The camerawork is boring and the angles destroy the action. It's supposed to be flowing freely, but here they just seem to cut takes together almost randomly.
This movie promised loads of fun, but it ended up serving loads of s...
** / *****
After movies like Dragonheart, Daylight and especially The Fast and The Furious, we had every right to expect this to be nothing short of a good Bond knock-off from director Cohen. The idea is great, but the whole movie just feels so depressingly shallow, like Cohen's creative vain would have just dried up.
The camerawork is boring and the angles destroy the action. It's supposed to be flowing freely, but here they just seem to cut takes together almost randomly.
This movie promised loads of fun, but it ended up serving loads of s...
** / *****