China Synopsis
“There are no more patriots, just rebels and tyrants.”
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.
Audience Engagement
8,541 audience reviews — more than 100% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 99th percentile among China films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with xXx: Return of Xander Cage. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Action + Adventure in China
135 China titles in our catalog blend the Action and Adventure genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding xXx: Return of Xander Cage itself).
The 2016–2018 China Window
xXx: Return of Xander Cage holds position #156 of 224 China films in the 2016–2018 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in China, 515 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when xXx: Return of Xander Cage premiered alongside 84 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 47m runtime, production spent $794K per minute on screen and earned $3.2M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 84 other China films in 2017.
The 487th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on xXx: Return of Xander Cage, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- swimming pool · 5
- back from the dead · 4
- parachute · 3
- extreme sports · 2
- dominican republic · 1
- free fall · 1
- airplane · 17
- secret agent · 16
- tattoo · 8
- sequel · 143
- spy · 46
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #681 of 946 China films indexed here (28th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.6 points below the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Action productions specifically: #212 of 319 (top 66%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, China, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Rox Productions, Revolution Studios, Maple Cage Productions, Huahua Media, Roth-Kirschenbaum Films |
| Runtime | 1h 47m |
| Release Date | January 13, 2017 |
| IMDb | tt1293847 |