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{{work|wppage=XXX (2002 film)}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:''xXx (2002 film)''|noerror}}
[[File:200px-Xxx_movie.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Stop thinking Prague police and start thinking [[PlayStation]]. Blow shit up!"''
|'''Xander Cage''', handily summing up the premise of the movie.}}
'''''xXx''''' (spoken as "Triple X") is a 2002 action film starring [[Vin Diesel]], who stars as the rebellious [[Genius Bruiser]] Xander Cage, a fugitive stuntman pressed into service by the NSA chief [[Samuel L. Jackson]]. What follows is a series of action-movie-setting "tests" of Xander to see if he is ready for the mission for which he had been recruited: the infiltration of anarchistic terrorist group "Anarchy 99". The leaders of this group are former KGB agents, [[Hand Wave|trained to sniff out American spies]], which means that this mission vast majority of regular, less x-treme NSA agents have been deemed unfit.
The film has at its core the subversion or outright rejection of many of the [[Tuxedo and Martini]] tropes (for better or worse), and an extended sequence at the beginning (where a tux-clad NSA agent completely fails at his mission and gets killed at a heavy metal concert) is clearly a [[Take That]] to [[James Bond]]. While financially successful, the EXTREME-ness of the film makes it falls into [[Totally Radical]] territory from time to time, and much of what it has to recommend in it the [[Darker and Edgier]] front was done later (and, most critics agree, better) by Bond himself in the ''[[Casino Royale]]'' remake.
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Followed by the poorly-received [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]] based installment ''xXx: State of the Union'' (known as ''xXx2: The Next Level'' outside the US and Canada) which stars [[Ice Cube]] as Ex-Navy Seal Darius Stone, who joins the NSA after Xander's apparent death (or at least Vin Diesel's stand-in) and is specifically said to be "[[Creator's Pet|tougher and nastier]]" than Xander.
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Xander gets a modified revolver that shoots interchangeable rounds, ranging from [[Staged Shooting]] capsules complete with fake blood to some kind of surveillance bug. Unfortunately the film ignores the weapon most of the time.
* [[Action Girl]]: [[Asia Argento|Yelena]]
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* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: In the second movie, Stone is said to hold the Navy record in diving at 250 ft. Guess how he avoids death during the final showdown.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Yorgi tries to just shoot the protagonists, but the room exploded.
* [[Cool Car]]: A '67 Pontiac GTO, stuffed with gadgets and weaponry. Stealing cool cars is also Anarchy 99's main business, there's a room full of them early in the film.
* [[Death Faked for You]]:
* [[Diegetic Switch]]: The movie opens with a Bond Expy being chased through back alleys to the sounds of [[Rammstein]] - ''Feuer Frei''. He later stumbles into an actual Rammstein concert, where he is murdered.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Xander in the sequel.
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* [[Slo-Mo Big Air]]: Oh yeah.
* [[Sniper Pistol]]: Used to kill the secret agent at the beginning.
* [[Soft Water]]: Appears to be subverted as Xander specifically breaks the surface tension with an explosion, but there's no way he wouldn't die in real life, as ''[[
* [[Take That]]:
** The scene introducing Xander to the viewers is also a HUGE Take That against... [[Moral Guardians|Jack Thompson]].
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