

The group manages to fend off the attackers, while Xiang manages to escape with Pandora's Box. Shortly after, Russian soldiers raid the island. He claims to have stolen Pandora's Box to prevent its misuse, although Serena believes they should destroy it. The team locates Xiang and his teammates Serena, Talon and Hawk, and Xander meets Xiang in an underground nightclub on a remote island, where Xiang reveals that his team are also xXx agents, recruited by Gibbons.

They are also aided by introverted weapons specialist Becky Clearidge. At an RAF outpost in Lakenheath, a unit of Special Forces operatives led by Paul Donovan is assigned to help Xander, but he rejects them in favor of his own team, composed of sharpshooter Adele Wolff, DJ Harvard "Nicks" Zhou, and getaway driver Tennyson "The Torch". In London, after enlisting an old friend, Ainsley, for help, Xander tracks down the attackers to the Philippines. CIA Agent Jane Marke tracks down former xXx operative Xander Cage, who faked his death and has been living in self-imposed exile in the Dominican Republic and convinces him to return to active service to retrieve the device. Shortly afterwards, a team of four skilled individuals led by Xiang infiltrate a highly guarded CIA office in New York City and retrieve " Pandora's Box", a device which is capable of controlling satellites to crash at specific locations as warheads. NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons attempts to recruit footballer Neymar for the Triple-X (XXX) program when a satellite crashes, apparently killing them both. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $346 million worldwide against a production budget of $85 million, making it both the franchise's and Revolution Studios' highest-grossing film. Paramount Pictures released the film on January 20, 2017, in 2D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D. It is the third installment in the XXX film series and a sequel to both XXX (2002) and XXX: State of the Union (2005). The film stars Vin Diesel in the lead role, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Toni Collette, Ariadna Gutiérrez, Hermione Corfield, and Samuel L. XXX: Return of Xander Cage (released as XXX: Reactivated in some countries) is a 2017 American action thriller film directed by D.J.
