Triple X

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="117b30a0.jpg" border=0 width="179" height="266" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> Triple X</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="727" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 449 WIDTH="715"><div> An AP movie reviewer  wrote, <I>"It's a testosterone-charged guilty pleasure, big, loud, stupid fun filled with car chases and explosions and chicks dressed in fur trimmed coats, and little else."</I>  And he's right, that's exactly what you can expect.  If you want a thought provoking movie go see <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Signs.  </FONT>  And if you like James Bond movies, as Roger Ebert points out, <I>"This movie follows the Bond formula exactingly, except that the hero,... is covered with tattoos and in real life he's not a spy...in a story that pays every possible tribute to 007 except pay royalties."</I>    Vin Diesel plays a great action hero [move over Arnie] and is believable in this comic book action movie.  Asia Argento fits her role as well, hard looking and dark.  The title of this movie actually belies itself.  While called <B>XXX</B>, and in spite of the in your face attitude of this movie, and the culture in which it is set, there is little or no profane language, and little sexuality.  Although sex is implied,  it is never shown.  [Even less so than Bond movies]   And while the odd butt may be exposed with skimpy swim suits there is no nudity.   And one more little subtlety that I noticed.  This movie was made by the same people who made <I>The Fast And The Furious</I>.  Someone in group must like vintage American cars because again, amongst all the modern and slick vehicles available, our hero chooses a 1960'ish muscle car.  If memory serves me correctly, in <I>The Fast and the Furious</I> it was a Doge Charger, in this movie a Pontiac GTO.  Beautiful car and I liked this movie.   If you just want a movie that's great entertainment, this is for you. </div> <bR> <div> Rating  <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Storyline:  Vin Diesel stars as former extreme sports athlete Xander “XXX” Cage, notorious for his death defying public stunts. Betting he can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Xander is recruited by NSA Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) to become a different kind of undercover agent. Enlisted for a dangerous covert mission, he must use all his extreme skills to combat a clever, organized, and ruthless enemy far beyond the scope of his experience.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>