In the party scene at XXX's house after he pulls the stunt with the Corvette, Joshua Todd, the ex-lead singer of Buckcherry, makes a cameo appearance - he never turns around, but you can see the suicide king of hearts tattoo on his back.

As well as before-mentioned Tony Hawk, you can see action sports celebrities like Colin McKay, Mike Vallely, Mat Hoffman and Rick Thorne at the party after Xander stole the Corvette.

One of the guys that Xander Cage has with him that attach the cameras to the senator's car is skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

When Cage goes to the party after his Corvette stunt, he starts talking to a girl with bleach blond hair and two tiger paw tattoos on her chest. This is an appearance by Eve, the famous rapper.

In the deleted scene of the plane ride on the DVD, when they are going towards the back where Xander is sitting; if you listen, the movie that is playing is The Fast and the Furious, which Vin Diesel also starred in.

Right at the start of the movie, when the spy is being chased, one of the two men chasing him is wearing a Rammstein t-shirt, coincidentally the band playing in the building that the spy breaks into.

When the drug lord is threatening to hack off XXX's Achilles tendon, he holds up a rusty machete. The man with the machete is, coincidentally or not, the actor that played "Machete" in the movie Spy Kids (2001).