Thursday
30Oct2008
xXx III
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 2:12AM 
People think it's all fun and games, rolling
out movies like
Fast and Furious next summer, because what
could really be the harm in two desperate actors like
Vin Diesel
and Paul
Walker trying to cash in on a franchise one last time? OK,
well-ground people probably don't call those guys "actors," but that's not the
point.
Here's the point: Movies like that lead to
movies like another xXx.
Rob Cohen, who would be in the round-robin
tournament for worst directors alive still scoring a blockbuster every year,
recently told
Omelete (via
Collider) that there will definitely be another
xXx flick.
"Yes, [Columbia is] doing it with me and
producer Joe
Roth," confirmed Cohen, giving nobody confidence by mentioning Roth's
wildly inconsistent metal detector. "We made the deal recently, it's named
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. We met the writers yesterday and we're
trying to get into production by late spring, to have it out for the summer of
2010."
You see how all this happened, right? The
first xXx was like an adrenalized Bond movie, and for that, it should get
some credit. But the second movie was pitiful. All known prints of xXx: State
of the Union should be burned. I'll volunteer to start the bonfire. And then
the Bourne movies upped the ante on what spy movie action should look like,
which led to better James Bond movies. Now xXx wants back in, or should
we say, Diesel wants back in.
Too little, too late? Maybe. But I said that about the most
recent Indiana Jones movie and it did great business. That's all this is
about, after all, so just know that if you watch Fast and the Furious
thinking nobody could get hurt, please consider the consequences of your
actions.
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