Video-game kicks rule in this high-concept, lowbrow action picture, as cynically calculated as it is efficiently executed. Extreme-sports outlaw Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) lives to give the establishment the finger. We first see him stealing an uptight senator's sports car (the fascist fogie supports regulating violent video games) and driving it off a bridge, surfing the hood and parachuting to last-minute safety as the pricey wheels crash to the ground. Radical. Meanwhile, having just lost a suave, James Bond-style agent on a mission in Prague, veteran espionage agent Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) is looking for an unconventional spy to take his place. Even am...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
124 mins