2017 · action · adventure · crime
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Directed by D.J. Caruso1h 47m2017
Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.
Our read: xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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