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You don't need to have a grudging affection for Vin Diesel to appreciate this dunderheaded comic-book adventure - although, obviously, it helps. His mission, this time around, is to escort a holy virgin across post-apocalyptic Russia and into the heart of New York New York, state, United States
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, battling cyberpunk A futuristic, online delinquent: breaking into computer systems; surviving by high-tech wits. The term comes from science fiction novels such as "Neuromancer" and "Shockwave Rider.  goons along the way. What an endearingly shambolic sham·bol·ic  
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Disorderly or chaotic: "[The country's] transportation system is in a shambolic state" 
 action hero Diesel is. He mumbles For the record label, see .
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 his lines as though he's leafing through the script at the read-through, and sports an air of perplexed annoyance that suggests he thought he'd signed up for a different movie altogether. All told, he comes out of this a lot better than director Mathieu Kassovitz - tipped as the new Godard in the wake of La Haine yet now apparently plying his trade as a Luc Besson impersonator.
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