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From: Santa Fe Reporter | Date: August 20, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is a socially conscious street thug who stages extreme stunts for an Internet audience until he is forcibly enlisted by a National Security agent (Samuel L. Jackson) as part of a crackerjack plan to use civilian hooligans to replace NSA agents killed on a recent mission. Cage is sent to the Czech Republic and given the task of infiltrating the upper echelon of a terrorist organization. His street smarts soon win over the bad guys, and Cage is able to unearth their plans to topple the world's governments with biological weaponry. The rest unfolds more or less as you'd ...

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