Jan 18, 2017 10:38 PM
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If the film has been released in India a week ahead of its US opening, there is good reason. Deepika Padukone, in her first appearance in a Hollywood film, is a point of interest in this part of the world.
Despite the unexplained heavily Indian accent, she holds her own as the badass Serena Unger, a woman of indeterminate nationality who gives as good as she gets.
The gravity-defying leaps, the jaw-dropping stunts, the guttural bon mots, and the dizzyingly fast cars and dirt bikes can at best provide cheap superficial thrills.
Genuine substance, notwithstanding all the grand talk of imperiled mankind being in desperate need of new soldiers to champion its cause, eludes xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
The film, to fulfil popular expectations, delivers unrelenting action, with Cage and his oddball cohorts taking shots at chasing a device that can remote control satellites to come crashing to earth and inflicting great damage to human life and property.
