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The Latino Review dudes have themselves a review of the script for xXx: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE.

This concept was designed to return Vin Diesel to the xXx franchise. Rob Cohen was, at one point, slated to come back to direct the project (he directed the first xXx film) - but it's not clear if this will actually happen as he recently jumped to another movie called MEDIEVAL (details HERE).

So Vin's Xander Cage character is back, so is Sam Jackson's Augustus Gibbons. Seems their objective this time is to chase down a bushel of missing Russian nukes.

Mr. Jackson lays down the situation. They need Vin’s help. Why him? He takes Diesel down to a Level 48 holding cell where Vin sees…Vin 2! Or someone who looks exactly like Vin, except with a combover and a British accent. Vin 2 is actually an international criminal known as “The End” who has ties with the Russians that stole the nukes! They need Vin 1 to impersonate Vin 2 to get the Russians to tell them where the missiles are.
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XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage is what it is: A big silly action movie. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be held to any standards. I’ve read tons of “big silly action scripts” and you can’t just throw any of them up on screen. There are degrees of quality here. The main problem with XXX is that we get to a point where we’re not clear what the characters are trying to do. We know their ultimate goal is stop the nuke sale, but how do they plan to do it?

...says the review, whose entirety you can find...

HERE!!!