Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.
If Dubya and Dick Cheney had made their very own post-9/11 patriotic propaganda movie for the teens they need as globalisation fodder, then this would be it.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
The director piles on one expensive but impersonal action scene after another.
– Mike Clark,
USA Today,
23 Aug 2002
rotten:
Now I know what XXX stands for:Xtremely Xcruciating Xperience.