A Man Apart | | Cast : | Vin Diesel | | Director : | F. Gary Gray | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 04, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | Not Bad for a Modern Action Flick | Content
 | As someone who grew up watching the action films of the 80s---Chuck Norris, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and others---I fully expected A Man Apart to follow along the same lines. In some ways I ended up being pleasantly surprised, and in some ways I didn't.
The surprise came from the fact that Vin Diesel truly does have a fair amount of acting ability and showed good emotional range as the husband of a murdered wife who becomes obsessed with finding her killers. Vin does well as the strong, silent type with an explosive temper. The bad came from the fact that the basic plot of this film made very little sense, especially the big "who-dunnit" at the end. Was a big chunk of the movie edited out or what? When the main villian is revealed, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. As we get further along in the movie, the writing lapses into the same old cliches and tired old lines that popped up in all those 80s movies I was talking about. The ending could have been ripped off from Cobra, Commando or one of those other flicks chock full of lame one-liners. I expected more from the ending, frankly, but I can't say that the rest of the movie was altogether bad. A Man Apart is worth viewing at least once. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 20, 2005 | | Summary | not bad for another DEA movie | Content
| F. Gary Gary teams up with a great acting cast in this drug cartel/dea movie. The protagonist played by Vin Diesel is convincing. Co-star Laurenz Tate also gives a decent performance. This story wins the most points for great photography. The Mexico scenes are really well done. Other than that, it's just another movie is the drug cartel genre. It's almost like a scaled-down, underdeveloped version of Traffic. Basic plot is cop with nothing to loose goes after the bad guys who killed his wife. Nothing originial there. That said, Vin Diesel fans, like myself, will sit through it just for the heck of it. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2005 | | Summary | Shameless destruction of the spanish language | Content
| This is an okay movie, not a great movie. I would see it on TV but not rent, or own, much less pay full box office ticket for it. The reason? Even when Vin Diesel proves he has grown and matured as an actor, his producers haven't. Only one character in the whole movie expresses an acceptable spanish phrase, (Mateo, played by Juan Fernandez) Again the Hollywood establishment is guilty of the same offensive crime over and over. Hiring Latino "looking" actors for terrible spanish renditions of their lines. It seems no one cares in the end for the latino box office dollar.
The Main spanish speaking character in the movie is colombian, a pronunciation that happens to sound different than mexican, than guatemalan, than argentinian, than venezuelan; Yet he sounds like a 12 hour audio tape graduate. Also the producers fall all over again for the cliche of Colombia as a poor version of Juan Valde'z hillside, burros included.
If you are latino, and have a sense of humor see this movie, If you are a latino without a sense of humor, skip it altogether. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 22, 2005 | | Summary | Bad News/Pathetic | Content
| I saw this film expecting some action. The title is very undeserving for the movie I saw. I stopped watching the movie 20 minutes before it ended. It was endlessly unappealing. There was not one scene in this film that made feel or realise the emotion displayed. Direction,Screenplay,Action all lacked detail and co-ordination. I don't think I'm a Vin Diesel Fan anymore. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 17, 2005 | | Summary | disappointment! | Content
| I liked Vin Diesel despite Riddick and thought that he can be a good action star. Unfortunately, this movie at the very least didn't demonstrate his acting abilities (unless you consider looking tough as an acting skill). Grunted, the movie doesn't help. It is badly written, badly directed. Overall, mediocre B-movie. |
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