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Byline: Mark Rahner
You can start the new year off with a bang _ lots of them, in slow motion, with ear-splitting music _ with "XXX" (Columbia TriStar, PG-13). Muscle-bound Vin Diesel scored a theatrical hit as an extreme-sports outlaw recruited into the spy biz by scar-faced handler Samuel L. Jackson.
If the latest Bond film didn't have enough improbable stunts and stale quips for you, this one takes the formula and just adds 'tude. Diesel BMX-jumps, sky-boards and skateboards with a restaurant tray, as he _ wait for it _ infiltrates the organization of a flamboyant crime boss bent on world destruction. The DVD is tricked out with lots of decent making-of …