XXX (film)
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XXX (also written xXx), pronounced "Triple X", is a 2002 action movie starring Vin Diesel. XXX was marketed as a James Bond style film for the new millennium and featured similar gadgetry, international schemes and intrigues, villain-sponsored take-over-the-world schemes backed up by doomsday devices, a female co-star / love interest, and outrageous stunts (as Roger Ebert put it, "Why blow up two cars when you can blow up twenty?").
XXX was written by Rich Wilkes, directed by Rob Cohen (who also directed Diesel in 2001's The Fast and the Furious), and produced by Neal H. Moritz for Revolution Studios. Stuntman Harry L. O'Connor was killed in an accident during filming.
A sequel was released in 2005, titled , starring rap artist/actor Ice Cube and Willem Dafoe.
Plot summary
Vin Diesel stars as Xander "XXX" Cage, an extreme sports star that gets in trouble with the law. He's given a chance of having the charges against him dropped, by working as an undercover agent for NSA agent Augustus Gibbons (played by Samuel L. Jackson).
Betting XXX can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Gibbons sends him to infiltrate Anarchy 99—an underground Russian ex-military crime ring—undetected, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude.
As the story unfolds, XXX will have to stop Anarchy 99's plans to unleash Ahab, a solar-powered robotic submarine which mission is to terminate the world's most prominent capital cities with a chemical WMD known as Silent Night.
Cast and roles
- Vin Diesel - Xander Cage
- Asia Argento - Yelena
- Marton Csokas - Yorgi
- Samuel L. Jackson - Augustus Gibbons
- Michael Roof - Agent Toby Lee Shavers
- Richy Müller - Milan Sova
- Werner Dähn - Kirill
- Petr Jákl - Kolya (as Petr Jakl)
- Jan Pavel Filipensky - Viktor (as Jan Filipensky)
- Tom Everett - Senator Dick Hotchkiss
- Danny Trejo - El Jefe
- Thomas Ian Griffith - Agent Jim McGrath
- Eve - J.J.
- Leila Arcieri - Jordan King
- William Hope - Agent Roger Donnan
- Till Lindemann, Richard Z. Kruspe, Christoph Schneider, Paul Landers, Oliver Riedel, Christian Lorenz - As themselves
Filming locations
- Most of the movie is set in Prague, Czech Republic
- The Corvette jump was filmed at the Foresthill Bridge in Auburn, California
- The final scenes were set in Bora Bora, Tahiti, and other areas in French Polynesia
Featured cars
Various modded and upgraded cars feature in the movie, including the following:| Car | Color | Year | Driven by |
| Pontiac GTO | Blasberry crimson blue pearlised lacquer | 1967 | Xander Cage(xXx) |
| Alfa Romeo 164 | silver | 1987 | background car |
| Alfa Romeo GTV | Red | 2000 | Background car @ Yorgi's |
| BMW 7 [E38] | Black | 1995 | background car @ yorgi's |
| Cadillac Eldorado | Pale blue | 1971 | background car for stunt helpers |
| Cagiva V-Raptor | black/yellow | 2000 | Kolya |
| Chevrolet Blazer S-10 | Blue | unknown | Cuban's |
| Chevrolet Corvette | Red | 1997 | Senator Dick/xXx |
| Ferrari 360 Modena | Yellow | unknown | list given by xXx |
| Ferrari 360 Spyder | Red | unknown | list give by xXx |
| Ferrari 512 TR | Yellow | unknown | list from xXx |
| Ferrari F355 GTS | Red | unknown | list from xXx |
| Ferrari Testarossa | Black | unknown | list from xXx |
| Ford Crown Victoria | Black/white | 1993 & 2000 | Driven by american police |
| Ford F-150 | Silver | 1987 | guys helping xXx with stunts |
| Ford Mondeo Mk3 | grey/silver | 2001 | background car |
| Ford Scorpio | black | 1985 | list from xXx |
| GMC Jimmy S-15 | black | 1994 | cuban's |
| Husqvarna CR 125 | black/white | 2000 | motorcycle xXx and silver toothed cuban |
| International Harvester Loadstar 1700 | military green | unknown | cuban's |
| Iveco Eurocargo | red | unknown | background truck |
| Jaguar XK8 | black | unknown | background car |
| Jeep Cherokee | military greens | unknown | driven by army |
| Jeep CJ | ivory/cream | unknown | cuban's |
| Kassbohrer PistenBully | Red | unknown | snowplow |
| Mercedes-Benz Sklasse [W220] | dark blue | unknown | agency |
| MG ZR | black | unknown | yorgi |
| MG ZT | blue | unknown | background |
| New Holland Ag | light blue | unknown | potatoe truck |
| Škoda Felicia Combi | white/blue | 1997 | Městská policie hlavního města Prahy (Prague Police Department) |
| TVR Tuscan Speed Six | silver | unknown | yorgi |
| Wartburg 353 | yellow | 1966 | background |
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is on Universal Records.Disc 1-The Heavy Metal Side
- Feuer Frei! - Rammstein
- Bodies (Vrenna XXX Mix) - Drowning Pool
- I Will Be Heard - Hatebreed
- Millionaire - Queens of the Stone Age
- Before I Die - Mushroomhead
- Get Up Again - Flaw
- Landing - Moby
- Adrenaline - Gavin Rossdale from Bush
- 004 - Fermin IV
- Technologicque Park - Orbital
- Juicy - I Mother Earth
Disc 2-The Xander Zone
- Stick Out Ya Wrist - Nelly featuring Toya
- Look At Me - Lil' Wayne
- Truth Or Dare - N*E*R*D featuring Kelis & Pusha T
- Are We Cuttin? - Pastor Troy featuring Ms. Jade
- Still Fly - Big Tymers
- Connected For Life - Mack 10 (featuring Ice Cube, WC & Butch Cassidy
- Lights, Camera, Action! [Club Mix] - Mr.Cheeks featuring Missy Elliott & P.Diddy
- I'ts Okay - Postaboy featuring Rashad & 7A
- Yo, Yo, Yo - Dani Stevenson
- Lick - Joi
Trivia
- The first few minutes of the movie take place in a Rammstein concert in Prague.
- One of the tattoos on Xander Cage reads "Melkor," the name of one of Diesel's old Dungeons & Dragons player characters, and is one of the names of Morgoth, the master of Sauron and the original evil spirit in the world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, and greater Arda.
- When Xander first enters the club where he hands over the list of cars, the theme song from The Third Man (1949) is being played on a zither.
- Tony Hawk makes a cameo appearance filming the Corvette scene from the bridge (near the beginning of the movie) and skating over a half-pipe at Xander's place later.
- Employees of the NSA performing espionage operations is a fictional aspect of the National Security Agency; as the NSA is responsible for code-breaking and intercepting and analyzing signal transmission, not physical operations. (This misconception is common in fiction)
Director's Cut
The Director's Cut of the DVD was released with about ten minutes of additional footage, sneak peeks at the sequel, and a film short with Vin Diesel's voice dubbed in as an actor is seen from behind that shows how Xander died. This short included Leila Arcieri, who had under thirty seconds of screentime in the film. The additional scenes foreshadowed Xander as a hero, and a longer stripper in the bedroom sequence.External links
- [Enjoy The Drive] All about the 1967 Pontiac GTO
- [IMCDB] The internet movie car data base
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