xXx: The return of Xander Cage

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Movie
German title xXx: The return of Xander Cage
Original title xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director DJ Caruso
script F. Scott Frazier
production Joe Roth ,
Jeff Kirschenbaum ,
Vin Diesel ,
Samantha Vincent
music Brian Tyler ,
Robert Lydecker
camera Russell Carpenter
cut Jim Page ,
Vince Filippone
occupation

xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (Original Title: xXx: Return of Xander Cage ) is an American action film directed by DJ Caruso and author F. Scott Frazier from 2017 . The production is the second sequel to xXx - Triple X from 2002. The cast includes Vin Diesel , Donnie Yen , Deepika Padukone , Kris Wu , Ruby Rose , Tony Jaa , Nina Dobrev , Toni Collette and Samuel L. Jackson . The film is distributed by Paramount Pictures and Revolution Studios and was released in German cinemas on January 19, 2017 in 2D and 3D .

action

The NSA -Agent Augustus Gibbons tried in Brazil , the football player Neymar to recruit for his xXx program, as a satellite from its orbit crashes and hits close to Gibbons location. A short time later, four criminals break into a high-security CIA office in New York and steal a device called " Pandora's Box ".

The CIA agent Jane Marke tracks down the extreme athlete and former xXx secret agent Xander Cage, who had faked his death and went into hiding in the Dominican Republic . Marke reports on Gibbons' death and the "box" with which satellites can be crashed at will and used as bombs. Cage should get the device back. He accepts the assignment, but rejects Marke's team, led by soldier Donovan. Instead, he recruits old friends to support him: the sniper Adele Wolff, the DJ Nick and the driver Tennyson. They are also assisted by weapons specialist Becky Clearidge from Markes' team.

They track down the four criminals on a Philippine island at a party and mingle with the party guests. Cage learns from Xiang, the leader of the four, that Gibbons has also recruited him and his companions Serena, Talon and Hawk as xXx agents and that they stole the "box" on his behalf to prevent their abuse. Suddenly the party is stormed by Russian soldiers, and Xiang escapes with the "box", Cage on his heels. Serena takes Cage's side. She helps him retrieve the device and destroys it, but Xiang escapes with Talon and Hawk.

Another satellite is deflected and crashes on Russia , making it clear that the destroyed device was just a prototype that could only crash one satellite, and the real "box" still exists. Cage finds out that CIA director Anderson is the leader of the conspiracy and owns the real device. Clearidge locates the origin of the signal in Detroit , where Anderson and his men are hiding in a warehouse. Cage and Xiang both want to get the "box" and so the two teams race. Cage allies himself with Xiang and is able to secure the "box", whereby Anderson is killed by Wolff with a precision shot. Xiang is arrested by Marke's people and taken to their plane with Cage. After the start, she tells Cage that the xXx program will be ended and she wants to use the "box" for herself, and shoots Cage down. Meanwhile, the two teams come under heavy fire from Marke's agents in the warehouse. They join forces and fight together, but their situation seems hopeless when suddenly the former xXx agent Darius Stone appears and kills all enemies.

In the meantime, Marke activates another satellite in the plane to drop it onto the warehouse. Cage, who survived the attack thanks to a bulletproof vest, frees Xiang, and both fight Donovan and his men. Xiang kills Brand, grabs the "box" and parachutes out of the plane. Clearidge tries from the ground to stop the crashing satellite, but to no avail. Cage steers the aircraft in the direction of the satellite and jumps at the last second, but without a parachute. While the plane collides with the satellite and destroys it, Cage freefall reaches a package that he had previously knocked down and is able to land safely with its parachute.

Back on the ground with both teams, Cage destroys "Pandora's Box". When he and his people attend Gibbons' funeral, Gibbons appears and tells Cage that he had also only faked his death. He's rebuilding the xXx program, starting with his newest recruit, Neymar. Xander decides to remain available for missions.

background

Vin Diesel announced back in 2006 that he would be returning as Xander Cage in a new xXx film and announced the title xXx: The Return of Xander Cage at the time. Originally, in addition to Diesel, the director of the first part , Rob Cohen , should also return.

According to Diesel, the style and music remain true to the original with an extra focus on extreme stunts and heavy metal sound. On June 10, 2009, Cohen left the production team to direct the action film Medieval . After it was announced in the meantime that Ericson Core would direct, DJ Caruso finally took the director's chair.

In April 2010, Paramount Pictures announced that it would take over the distribution of the film instead of Sony Entertainment and that the film would also be shown in 3D.

criticism

On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film achieved a rating of 42% based on 77 rated reviews and an average rating of 4.8 / 10. The bottom line is: “ xXx: The return of the Xander Cage should please fans of the first two parts. However, the elaborate sets cannot compensate for the slack plot, which neither allows the film series itself nor action fans in general to penetrate new areas. ”The British newspaper The Guardian judged harshly in the online edition that only one new episode of Police Academy would be less Create tension. The Telegraph also found the film wasted chance after chance of bringing together a satisfying action sequence or showing what was not lame, spatially confusing and poorly lit. The film service sums up: "The action spectacle, which is emphatically crazy and 'cool' and prominently cast in the supporting roles, is exhausted in the almost action-free series of audiovisual highlights."

Production costs and box office results

The cost of production was $ 85 million. In the first few weeks, the film grossed more than 160 million dollars in the People's Republic of China , in the USA only a quarter of the sum. On the weekend of its premiere, it made 61 million dollars in China. This was the biggest commercial success of a Hollywood film in China since Warcraft .

Web links

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