All Sound and Fury which is but a whimper
xXx(2002) 4/10
When Tom Cruise in MI3 leaps off a tall building, its cool even if we alll know Cruise doesn’t actually leap off a tall building. When Vin Diesel iceboards ahead of a cascading avalanche, all i can think of is how fake and obviously cinematically altered that scene is. That, my friend is why MI3 is much better than xXx.
xXx is the kind of dumb man’s action movie. Wham. Bang. Rinse and Repeat. There are some decent stunts, but the plot is so inane, and the star so lacking in charisma that you stop caring. Sean Connery has charisma. Tom Cruise has charisma. Matt Damon doesn’t quite have it yet, but that’s fine because Jason Bourne is suppose to act like a regular normal dude who forgets that he is a top spy so Damon’s nomalness acts to his advantage. Vin Diesel on the other hand, in addition to being a lousy actor, is also a bland action star. And that sinks this film to pointless mediocrity.
Volcano High(2001) 2/10
In the world of Volcano High, there is no law or semblence of order. Students engage in fights with powers straight out of Street Fighter. They can fly and seem to be able to do all sorts of silly hijinks. And plot? What plot? It doesn’t even have the decency to follow proper continuity. A student who is seriously injured in one scene suddenly pops up in the next with nary any discernable injuries. And everyone seems to be looking for some dumb mysterious scroll of something. Seriously, i suspect your IQ will drop a few point when watching something as brainless and pointless as this.
