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Article: Rebel without a clue.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2002
- Author:
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Byline: ALEXANDER WALKER
XXX X Cert 12A, 121 mins
TRIPLE X, as I recall, was the logo of a make of safety glass used in cars.
Cars there are, by the dozen, in Vin Diesel's spy caper. But safety isn't a feature: just the reverse. The new guy on the spy block makes his living at extreme sports that require him to break the law, and often all the glass in the house.
Even before he signs in as what the makers of XXX clearly mean to be a new-model James Bond, he roars off in a car owned by a reactionary US senator (the spoilsport sort who'd ban rock lyrics that condone murder) and drops it from a great height off a bridge in a delayed ...
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