Directed by:
F. Gary GrayCinematography:
Jack N. GreenComposer:
Anne DudleyCast:
Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant, Jacqueline Obradors, Steve Eastin, Juan Fernández, Marco Rodríguez, Emilio Rivera, Alice Amter, Ken Davitian (more)VOD (1)
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Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks are members of the DEA who are fighting an ongoing drug war on the California/Mexico border, they are most successful at it because of their edge of growing up on the street and being thugs converted to cops. The DEA busts one of the major players by the name of "Memo" Lucero and imprison him in the United States but then a major player named Diablo then takes over the business and now he is now the major player targeted by Vetter and his team. But when Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible and in the process has to seek help from the imprisoned Lucero in order to catch Diablo. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge... (official distributor synopsis)
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I could get over the fact that the screenplay for A Man Apart was plagiarised from every possible Seagal movie. What I can’t get over, however, is how slow and lifeless the film is, and how it cries out for deeper development of Vin Diesel’s character.
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If Seagal had been at least a little in form, then he certainly would have acted in this. A mediocre crime movie about a vengeful cop, perfect for the TV screen. A little invention in the clichéd screenplay and shorter running time would have benefited this movie at least a little. The actors are bland, the directing too, the screenplay is horrific, but you will suffer no harm watching it and it isn’t at all ridiculous, just terribly mediocre...
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Not such a big fuss as I feared, still too exhausted and excruciatingly clunky when it comes to explanatory passages. The only reason for a possible viewing remains the obvious and rough Vin Diesel, always playing the same face, and it still works. His charisma and skill in dealing out punches, bullets, and one-liners made me decide not to shoot the avenger in the super awkward scene of a home celebration.
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The best part of the whole movie is probably the one-minute sequence in the opening credits, it looked interesting and promised a suspenseful crime drama. The final effect, however, is rather weak. The plot is chaotic, with one lapse in logic after another, and the whole thing feels like a stew of multiple genres.
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