Original Soundtrack - XXX (CD)

All Music Guide

He's a new kind of secret agent. He throws out the martinis, but keeps the promiscuity. He's sly, not suave. He doesn't cotton to conventions -- he creates his own rules. Where James Bond had John Barry, XXX -- better known as Vin Diesel -- has a bunch of alt-metal and hardcore hip-hop providing the soundtrack for the extreme sports that are XXX's trademark. Drowning Pool's "Bodies" sounds better than ever in its "Vrenna XXX Mix," Gavin Rossdale's first solo track, "Adrenaline," is Bush with a hip makeover, and Queens of the Stone Age show why they're considered one of the greatest hard rock acts of the time by delivering melodic counterpoints to the verse and chorus of their contribution, "Millionaire."

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide