Réalisation:
D.J. CarusoScénario:
F. Scott FrazierPhotographie:
Russell CarpenterActeurs·trices:
Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Deepika Padukone, Tony Jaa, Donnie Yen, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, Toni Collette, Hermione Corfield, Al Sapienza (plus)VOD (5)
Résumés(1)
Xander Cage (Vin Diesel), sportif de l'extrême devenu agent d'élite, sort de l'exil qu'il s'était imposé, pour affronter le redoutable guerrier alpha Xiang et son équipe. Il entre dans une course impitoyable afin de récupérer une arme de destruction massive connue sous le nom de Boîte de Pandore. Recrutant une toute nouvelle équipe d'experts accros à l'adrénaline, Xander se retrouve au coeur d'une conspiration menaçant les gouvernements les plus puissants du monde. (Paramount Pictures FR)
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Critiques (6)
Après une journée pourrie au boulot, j’ai plié bagage et me suis dirigé vers le cinéma. Je souhaitais voir un film qui n’exige pas de réfléchir, tout au plus qui fasse rire et se laisse regarder. Mon choix s’est porté sur Vin Diesel dans un de ses rôles célèbres, après quoi la notoriété lui est quelque peu montée à la tête. Au bout d’un quart d’heure, je me suis demandé dans quelle connerie je m’étais encore embarqué, mais une fois arrivé au passage populaire de « l’escadron suicide » qui rencontre un autre « escadron suicide » et qui se retrouve sur une île pleine d’alcool et de beautés en maillot de bain, j’ai modifié ma voix intérieure en me disant que c’était finalement tout à fait ce dont j’avais besoin. À part quand même le final qui était encore une fois exagéré, mais qu’importe, ça m’a fait oublier mes soucis du jour !
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I guess I’m just too old for this. The story makes very little sense. The action scenes are OK, but excessively digital in places. And Diesel is no longer the young buck that he used to be, more like the jolly uncle who forgot to grow up. The girls are hot, by the way, and here and there Donnie Yen puts on a fine show, even though it’s pitifully cut. Even Tony Jaa is underused and pretty awkward at times. Enough of that. If it’s not on tape, it didn’t happen.
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After fifteen years, I would have expected a far more marked evolutionary change than what I got. Nowadays, most of the big studios producing mainstream action heroes know that it's easier to do things in a team and the audience enjoys it. The new XXX came up with this idea and it has to be said that half of the squad is more interesting than the alpha man himself, who makes a few comments here and there, fights once or twice and that's about it. Tony Jaa and Donnie Yen don't have much room to stand out thanks to the hasty editing and confusion of the action scenes, and the girls are damn good at it, but the shooting doesn't quite work for them. We are willing to bend genre standards and boundaries, you know before you watch it that it's going to be dumb, but not many people expect it to be this stupid and badly made.
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Right at the beginning there is an action scene which looks like it was cut out from the worst junk novel, written by someone who as soon as he realized what a terrible nonsense he has written, he rather burnt the whole thing just so not a single eye can ever see it again. After this terrible “funny” nonsense, Vin Diesel gets to a place where we meet another bunch of morons, where everyone is as nice as nails in the ass. Then there is a lot of bullshit being said and here and there an action scene that is as dumb as the rest of the scenes. The only plus side of the film is the director and the digital effects, which prevent this film from hitting the rock bottom. I don't know who came up with the idea that the present time is going to be crazy about wacky action movies. But since they do want to shoot them, they could at least try to make the actors not aggravating but entertaining. Unfortunately, Vin Diesel cannot keep the entire movie afloat just by himself.
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Quite bullshit, this is. Quite star-studded, but the potential was buried somewhere in the Cayman Islands. xXx is pretty much over the top with its action, even for me, and it’s not that well filmed. The cinematography is very abrupt and the editing spoils more or less all the action scenes. Tony Jaa is perhaps in his most unlikeable role ever and Donnie Yen was okay with the final action where he had a bit of a chance to show off. Vin Diesel didn't really entertain me (the guy can only act in FF, he sucks everywhere else) and that left my favourite Ruby Rose, who is as perversely attractive here as she was in John Wick 2. A small plus for the music and cameos by more familiar faces, otherwise weak. 50%
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