Other Titles • A Man Apart • El Diablo • This Man's Dominion • Untitled Vin Diesel Project
Synopses for A Man Apart (2003)
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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
(41 votes)
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Non-stop explosive action!" -Mark S. Allen, KMAX-TV, Sacramento
When they took his love...they took his life. Now, he's out to get it back. Vin Diesel (XXX, The Fast and the Furious) explodes as volatile DEA agent Sean Vetter, a former LA gang member whose street smarts have made him teh ideal undercover narcotics officer. Together with partner Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate, Biker Boyz), Vetter succeeds in taking down the Mexican cartel's top drug lord. A ruthless new trafficker named Diablo takes control of the cocaine empire. To signal his arrival, he orders a hit on Vetter. Though the agent narrowly escapes with his life, his beautiful wife (Jacqueline Obradors, TV's NYPD Blue) is killed in the crossfire. Vowing revenge, Vetter strikes a deal for information on the elusive Diablo and sets out to deliver his own harsh brand of street justice in this taut, action-packed thriller.
(37 votes)
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Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) and his partner Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate) came up on the mean streets of Los Angeles but now work together as DEA agents, fighting a seven-year war to stem the virulent drug pipeline along the US/Mexico border. Dubbed "the gunslingers" for their tough street tactics, their perseverance pays off when they take down notorious Baja Cartel kingpin Memo Lucero Geno Silva).
With Lucero locked away in a maximum security prison, Vetter is finally able to go home to his wife, Stacy (Jacqueline Obradors), a sanctuary from the harsh realities of his job.
But in the wake of Lucero's arrest, a mysterious figure, known only as Diablo, emerges to violently claim the Baja Cartel. And when Vetter and Hicks set their sights on identifying and stopping this dangerous and elusive new player, Diablo makes the fight personal - robbing Vetter of the one person who gives his life meaning - Stacy.
With nothing to lose, Vetter pulls out every hidden resource at his disposal to bring Diablo down - including an unlikely alliance with the jailed Cartel boss Lucero. He will stop at nothing to avenge his wife's murder, edging dangerously close to the line between justice and lawlessness, even if it sets him at odds with the police unit to which he has dedicated his life.
Internationally-acclaimed superstar Vin Diesel (xXx, The Fast and the Furious, Pitch Black) takes on a compelling role as DEA agent Sean Vetter, who loses everything in his fight to take down a vicious new drug lord, in New Line Cinema's A Man Apart, which also stars rising young actor Larenz Tate (Biker Boyz, love jones, Menace II Society), Timothy Olyphant (Gone in 60 Seconds, Go), Jacqueline Obradors (TV's "NYPD Blue," Six Days, Seven Nights), Geno Silva (Scarface, Amistad), Juan Fernandez (Salvador) and Steve Eastin (Con Air).
A Man Apart is directed by F. Gary Gray (Set it Off, The Negotiator, the upcoming The Italian Job) and produced by Tucker Tooley, Vincent Newman, Joseph Nittolo and Vin Diesel. F. Gary Gray and Robert J. Degus are the executive producers. The co-producer is George Zakk. The original screenplay is written by Christian Gudegast & Paul T. Scheuring.
The behind the scenes talent includes director of photography Jack N. Green, ASC (Space Cowboys, Unforgiven), production designer Ida Random (Along Came a Spider, Rain Man), costume designer Shawn Barton (Love Jones, Friday), special effects coordinator Joe Montenegro (Forrest Gump, Contact), stunt coordinator Tim Davison (The X-Files, End of Days) and editors Bob Brown (The Ghost and the Darkness, The Client) and William Hoy.
New Line Cinema will release A Man Apart (rated "R" by the M.P.A.A.) nationwide on April 4, 2003.
(32 votes)
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