xXx ( Triple X) is a 2002 American spy thriller action film directed by Rob Cohen. A biochemical weapon, “Silent Night“, presumed missing since the fall of the Soviet Union, is obtained by Anarchy 99, a Russian terrorist group with formal military training. The NSA send an undercover agent to recover the weapon, but Anarchy 99’s skills easily see through the deception and assassinate him
NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons suggests that they need to send someone who lacks ties to the US government. Gibbons identifies Xander Cage, an extreme sports professional known as “X“ but also wanted by the FBI for his acts of protest against a leading senator. Gibbons’s team abducts Cage, and puts him through two field tests, stopping a staged diner robbery, and escaping from a Colombian cartel’s plantation in the midst of an army raid. Cage passes, and Gibbons offers him the job, promising to wipe his criminal records clean or otherwise sending him to prison. Cage accepts.