{"id":115,"date":"2002-10-22T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/10\/xxx\/"},"modified":"2002-10-22T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-22T15:13:00","slug":"xxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/xxx\/","title":{"rendered":"XXX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I saw this <\/a>last night, and I must admit that I went in knowing that it was not going to be exactly brilliant. Well I wasn’t short changed. So it was never going to be Oscar material, but I thought that it’d at least be an entertaining way of spending a couple of hours. How wrong can you be. It’s dreadful.
\nVin Diesel is so monotone it’s dull, with barely a laugh to be had (and if he’s going to be a tough guy then he’d better have laughs along the way). For a film that is so obviously using Bond movies as its blueprint, the location work seems to stretch to Prague alone, where as we all know from Blade II, they’re all into nu-metal, just off Wencelas Square.
\nEven the denouement (which I shan’t spoil) had absolutely no dramatic tension. There was no doubt that the hero would succeed, and no-one else was left in any peril.
\nI could go on, but really, it’s not worth the effort.
\nSadly I fear that it’s done well enough at the US box office to see a sequel rushed into production. Maybe they could combine it with the next Austin Powers.
\nEntertainingly, the film was preceded by a trailer for Day Another Day<\/a>, this year’s Bond film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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