Watch a Whole Slew of Motorcycle Tricks in the New ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’ Trailer
“Kick some a--. Get the girl. And try to look dope while you’re doing it.” Seems simple enough, right? Especially when you’re an extreme-athlete-turned-secret-government-operative like Xander Cage is, for example. Vin Diesel is back in action in xXx: Return of Xander Cage, and the newest trailer has stunts that may be even more ridiculous than the ocean-motorcycling that was in the first teaser. They certainly look dope, that’s for sure.
When your last name is Diesel, you can either change it to something that’ll let you star in more arty pictures, if that’s your thing, or you can lean in, and become a beefed up action hero whose characters never seem to die (see also: Riddick, Dom Toretto). Now he’s returning as his character from the original xXx for the third installment, and boy is it gonna be great. Xander Cage is back, baby.
Cage is “not gonna have clowns watch his back,” he says, as he rejects the team of henchmen Toni Collette gives him by throwing them all out of a plane. No, he’s going to recruit his own team of misfits and extreme athletes to save the world from some big dangerous superweapon, and he’s assembled quite a crew: from Ruby Rose to Nina Dobrev to Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Rory McCann, Tony Jaa, Samuel L. Jackson, Neymar Jr., the list just goes on and on. The plot is secondary, since we all know the real reason we’re going to watch this movie is to see whether or not anyone can actually ski through a jungle. If anybody can, it’s Xander Cage.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage is directed by D.J. Caruso and hits theaters January 20, 2017.