A Man Apart (DVD)

Prior to its release there was a big marketing campaign to promote the release of this film. The trailer was being shown in cinemas a long time before its release and by the time the film was due out I had decided that I must see this film. Going from the trailers the film looked to have a good storyline and good action scenes. Perfect for a non-taxing night in the cinema. ** Story Line ** Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) is DEA and has grown up with the drug world before becoming a cop. He knows how things work and he has a lot of contacts and friends on the street. When Vetter arrests a major drug lord, Lucero (Geno Silva), he makes himself a treat to the ...

Everyone has a past, and A Man Apart is Vin Diesel's. Before he was shot up the spout into Hollywood's stratosphere on the back of such projects as The Fast and the Furious and XXX, the bald and muscular one made this lone-cop-versus-the-drug-world film with wonderboy director F. Gary Gray. While not in the class of his later work, A Man Apart does showcase an interesting dark side to Diesel along with plenty of explosive thrills and spills. Preview screenings: a theatre stuffed to the gills full of fidgeting gits with popcorn-greasy fists full of free tickets 'won' by listening far too long and hard to the so-called hippest, hottest, most ...