"xXx Xander Cage Returns" After releasing

     Following 2017 blockbuster movie collection xXx Xander Cage returns was released January 19, 2017. It was the top ranking most awaited movie when thinking back to the previous year. As many of you might not know about the current stats of the movie after releasing.....Check This Out.

     xXx was not a new film to most of the fans since this was the 3rd movie of the xXx saga. On previous occasions, back in 2002 and 2005,  the movies were utmost succesful. This time as expected it was succesful more than the previous years.

    xXx has an extremely creative plot from the begining of the saga. Most of the fans gave up hope on a new xXx movie since it took almost 10 years to get into work on xXx Xander cage returns. The movie xXx
back in 2002 featured;

Vin Diesel as Xander Cage / xXx

Asia Argento as Yelena

Samuel L. Jackson as NSA Agent Augustus Eugene Gibbons

Marton Csokas as Yorgi

Michael Roof as NSA Agent Toby Lee Shavers

Richy Müller as Milan Sova

Werner Daehn as Kirill

Petr Jákl as Kolya

on the main cast. At the time it was Vin Diesel's rise to fame with movies like Riddick.

      Later in 2005 Vin Diesel's replacement was rapper Ice Cube. The movie featured;

Ice Cube as Darius Stone / xXx

Willem Dafoe General George Deckert

Scott Speedman as NSA Agent Kyle Christopher Steele

Peter Strauss as US President James Sanford

Samuel L. Jackson as NSA Agent Augustus Eugene Gibbons

on the main cast. Though this was successful alongside 71.1 million USD this wasn't that successful as the movie before which approximately hit 277.4 million USD.

    On the movie in 2002 the director
Rob Cohen decided that Xander Cage should die many people think that it was a mistake. So director D. J. Caruso thought that Xander should return plotting up 2017 xXx Xander Cage Returns. Starting from 2005 rumours started to spread about xXx in the future but not many were sure about it. Later Vin Diesel himself stated that a new production is to be started and Cohen also stated the same thing along with saying that "this will be big...". But the movie back in 2002 ended up on a cliff hanger about Xander's death. So many were not sure about Xander to be back.

     In 2009 a series of events took place include Cohen to step aside from the production and the writers of Terminator series to get into work on the movie. However until 2016 the lineup was rather unclear.  Finally the lineup was set that Jackson and Vin will take their former roles and that the Bollywood superstar Deepika padukone will play as an xXx while being Xander's love. Rapper and DJ artist Ruby Rose took a leading role as a sniper expert more like a mercinary. Caruso too played the director role and the movie was expected to be released in 3D 2D and RealD experiences. Also Nina Dobrev took a role in the movie as a techie and side kick to Xander and a fan of him.  Jet Li, Tony Jaa and other familiar faces were to set up the mainstream but it was reported that Jet Li dropped from the movie and was replaced by Donnie Yen. Later in January 2017 it was revealed that Neymar Jr. would join the movie too which made fans more aware on the releasing. Also subsequently Ice Cube returned to his character Darius Stone in xXx.

    Finally the movie ended up producing featuring;

Vin Diesel as Xander Cage / xXx

Donnie Yen as Xiang

Deepika Padukone as Serena Unger

Kris Wu as Harvard "Nicks" Zhou

Ruby Rose as Adele Wolff

Tony Jaa as Talon

Nina Dobrev as Becky Clearidge

Samuel L. Jackson as NSA Agent Augustus Eugene Gibbons

Toni Collette as CIA Agent Jane Marke

      The movie was released in Mexico following United States and on special request from Deepika the film was also set in India. On releasing the movie had an amazing weekend with 20 million USD income and on subsequent realeasing worldwide. The film had 40% in Rotten Tomatoes and 41 hits in metacritic.

     Many critics despite the thrill in the movie stated that the film is too primitive with unrealistic stunts performed.
Some critic reviews;

"xXx: Return of Xander Cage serves up all the expected over-the-top action, but it won't win the series any new fans due to various shortcomings."

Chris Agar
Screen Rant
2/5

"Weirdly retro in style, the movie has a mocking “Austin Powers” flavor."

Jeannette Catsoulis
The NYTimes

"This is the sort of movie that makes your standard shoot-em-up videogame look subtle, the Fast and Furious franchise (star Vin Diesel's other claim to fame) look like a Jane Austen novel."

Paul Asay
Plugged In
1.5/5

Despite what everyone says on my opinion the film is a masterpiece with Vin approving it. What do you think??

~M.Raven