10 Movies So Crazy Over The Top They Were Hilarious

5. XXx: The Return Of Xander Cage

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Paramount Pictures

Vin Diesel's crusade to have his career depend entirely on franchises continued with xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, a movie so astonishingly ridiculous that it almost beggars belief. The chrome-domed star must have decided that the Fast and Furious series was becoming too realistic for his liking, which is surely the only explanation for what happens over the course of Return's 107 minutes.

D.J. Caruso's threequel sets its stall out from the very first scene that sees Samuel L. Jackson starring opposite Neymar of all people. Neymar thinks he's joining the Avengers, foils a robbery by kicking a napkin holder at someone's head, then is seemingly blown up. Again, this is the first scene of the movie.

From there we get Vin Diesel jumping off a telephone pole and skiing through the jungle so some Brazilians can watch football, he chucks some highly-trained soldiers out of a plane to bring in his own oh-so radical team, there's a motorcycle chase that turns into a jet-ski chase for some reason, and an entire scene is dedicated to Xander Cage finding his coat that we all remember so well from the first movie.

Logic is a foreign concept to The Return of Xander Cage, but at least it never takes itself seriously and knows exactly how dumb it is.

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