Vin Diesel is no James Bond; and he doesn't want to be. That's why XXX announced Diesel as the adrenalin-junkie Bond of the PlayStation generation; copying the Bond formula so shamelessly that this action-packed silliness would be a Bond movie if it starred Pierce Brosnan. Reuniting Diesel with his Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen; XXX has an attitude (if not a brain) all its own; plucking Diesel's Xander Cage from his celebrity as an extreme sports renegade; recruited by a National Security Agency big shot (Samuel L. Jackson) to foil a nasty Czech villain (Marton Csokas) who's eager to depopulate Prague with remote-controlled biological weaponry. Toss in a sulky; sultry Russian agent (Asia Argento) and you've got extreme Bond-age for anyone who thinks tuxedos are pass?. With a handful of eye-popping action sequences; XXX launched a movie franchise with a cool guy; another cool muscle car; and plenty of box-office sizzle. --Jeff Shannon