The plot is simple: a group of hackers develops a box that can disrupt satellites, crashing them into cities. So, Hollywood returned to the franchise’s roots for this third XXX movie, and Vin Diesel returns as the titular Xander Cage. Unfortunately, Vin Diesel couldn’t make it so Ice Cube took over. It was called XXX.īecause franchises make da money, somebody decided a second XXX was a good idea. That movie starred Vin Diesel, featured an excellent soundtrack with one of my favorite Rammstein songs ‘Feuer Frei’.

Once upon a time in the early noughties, there was a movie about an extreme sports practitioner who got roped into being a spy for the NSA. I rarely turn off movies halfway through, but me and a group of my friends couldn’t take any more of ‘XXX: return of Xander Cage’ after about 30 minutes.