There are certainly worse reasons to make action films than unleashing a twofer twister of flying limbs and leonine attitude known as Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa on a bunch of slow-footed mopes. By the end of “xXx: Return of Xander Cage,” you get that (albeit not nearly enough), yet that’s hardly why this threequel exists. It’s not just the obvious nostalgic cash-in of existing IP. Like any additional Riddick movie that may yet arrive out of nowhere, the third “xXx” film is born solely of star-producer Vin Diesel’s harmlessly pathological people-pleasing urge to prop up
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
There are certainly worse reasons to make action films than unleashing a twofer twister of flying limbs and leonine attitude known as Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa on a bunch of slow-footed mopes. By the end of “xXx: Return of Xander Cage,” you get that (albeit not nearly enough), yet that’s hardly why this threequel exists. It’s not just the obvious nostalgic cash-in of existing IP. Like any additional Riddick movie that may yet arrive out of nowhere, the third “xXx” film is born solely of star-producer Vin Diesel’s harmlessly pathological people-pleasing urge to prop up