A Man Apart

Buffed-up action star Vin Diesel plays a reckless DEA agent in A Man Apart, which aspires to merge big-budget action fare with a grittier, The French Connection-style procedural drama. When his wife is murdered by a mysterious drug lord called Diablo, Sean Vetter (Diesel) loses his moral bearings and risks the lives of his fellow agents in a quest for revenge. A Man Apart tries to give Diesel the opportunity to demonstrate a greater emotional range, but it's a mess; the supposedly tender scenes are generic and flat, while the action scenes are utterly incomprehensible. Much of the time it's unclear who's a cop and who's a thug, so when people get shot--and a lot of people get shot--it just becomes a bland wash of blood and bullets. --Bret Fetzer

Movie Details

Cast: Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant, Jacqueline Obradors, Geno Silva, Alice Amter, Jim Boeke, Atiana Coons-Parker, Ken Davitian, Vin Diesel, Steve Eastin, Juan Fernandez, Aleane Fitz-Carter, Robert Fraade, Zachary John Gonzales, Richard Gross, Richard Haje, Terry Hoyos, Jeff Kober, Thomas Kopache
MPAA Rating: R
Running time: 110 min
DVD Aspect Ratios: 1.85:1

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DVD Features:

• Color
• Closed-captioned
• Widescreen
• Dolby

International rating:

Europe: 18
Australia: MA

DVD International release dates:
North America: Sep 2, 03