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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 State of the Union, 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

Filming locations

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 * 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 * 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

  1. Feuer Frei! - Rammstein
  2. Bodies (Vrenna XXX Mix) - Drowning Pool
  3. I Will Be Heard - Hatebreed
  4. Millionaire - Queens of the Stone Age
  5. Before I Die - Mushroomhead
  6. Get Up Again - Flaw
  7. Landing - Moby
  8. Adrenaline - Gavin Rossdale from Bush
  9. 004 - Fermin IV
  10. Technologicque Park - Orbital
  11. Juicy - I Mother Earth

Disc 2-The Xander Zone

  1. Stick Out Ya Wrist - Nelly featuring Toya
  2. Look At Me - Lil' Wayne
  3. Truth Or Dare - N*E*R*D featuring Kelis & Pusha T
  4. Are We Cuttin? - Pastor Troy featuring Ms. Jade
  5. Still Fly - Big Tymers
  6. Connected For Life - Mack 10 (featuring Ice Cube, WC & Butch Cassidy
  7. Lights, Camera, Action! Mix - Mr.Cheeks featuring Missy Elliott & P.Diddy
  8. I'ts Okay - Postaboy featuring Rashad & 7A
  9. Yo, Yo, Yo - Dani Stevenson
  10. 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

2002 films | Action films

XXX | XXX (Film) | XXX (film) | XXX | XXx | XXx

 

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