Samay | UP/Uttarakhand | MP/Chattisgarh | Bihar/Jharkhand | Rajasthan | Aalami Samay

'xXx: Return of Xander Cage': Action-packed and noisy

Film: "xXx: Return of Xander Cage"; Director: DJ Caruso; Cast: Vin Diesel, Deepika Padukone, Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, Ruby Rose, Nina Dobrev, Kris Wu, Toni Collette, Nina Dobrev, Rory McCann and Samuel L Jackson; Rating: **1/2 This is the third film of the xXx franchise. After skipping the second edition -- State of the Union which was released in 2005 -- Vin Diesel who had featured in the original 2000 film returns in this action-packed spy thriller with pomp and panache. When a deadly weapon known as the Pandora's Box is stolen, and with the villain's modus operandi of dropping satellites on random locations, the CIA have no alternative but to coax an ex-government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) to return from his self-imposed exile and help them save the world from "a global power shift."