I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This was by far vin's greatest movie along with the original fast and furious. The best movie of all time as of date was "point break" in 91, this comes in close to second. Hollywood is business that incorporates much talent but money comes first, that's why you have ultra non talented actors like chris pratt or J-Lo and i guess that's why vin has made all these terrible editions of the fast and furious, etc. Most big studio movies are just projected formulas about what the mainstream audience wants etc. This was a big studio movie that was kickass and cool and the best thing vin has done, he should have done tons like this, just like patrick should have done tons like point break .

Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) and Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate) are part of a DEA team sent to join Mexican police to take down drug lord Memo Lucero. Memo is captured and brought back to the US. A mysterious new player Diablo is taking over Memo's territory and killing his men. Diablo's men kill Sean's wife (Jacqueline Obradors) in a failed assassination attempt. He goes to seek revenge for his dead wife. They start investigating Hollywood Jack (Timothy Olyphant).It's a crime melodrama. There is a good deal of overacting. The story has several cliché plots jam together. Vin Diesel tries to do a lot. I don't blame him because that's the way it's written. He's a super cop. He's a happy street-wise family man. He's a grieving widow. He's a gangster thug avenging cop. He's too much and the movie suffers. It feels like a lot of poser acting. It doesn't get the benefit of gritty realism. There are quite a bit of gun action but it's not fun or exciting. This movie is going for a lot and probably too much. Around the halfway point, I stop caring about this movie.

A pathetic macho-man flick.The woman who played Diesel's wife was so cloyingly clingy, she seemed like a roll of clingwrap stuck to duct tape, wrapped around the grunting bald guy. Diesel spoke to her in honey dripping, endearing terms and each of them focused on each other as if neither of them had sex in decades and had massive doses of Viagra. Okay - we get it - Vin Diesel is not gay.They can't make eye contact without having simultaneous mutual orgasms. She's not even that hot and he's..well...bald and lumpy. Diesel walked around in a tight wife beater A-shirt and sported male boobs - what's next - male camel toe?? Diesel's friends seemed seedier than the folks you'd see in a urine-splashed inner city subway station rolled up with a bottle of Muscatel. The villain was the same guy who plays "The Most Interesting Man in the World" for the Dos Equis beer commercials. Too funny.Diesel grunts and punches his way through a predictable juvenile bore fest.

Aaaahhh Vin Diesel. I have seen him on Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien and I swear he is a poorly programmed robot. I mean most of the time he looks and acts human, but these weird inexplicable tics come up often enough that something is not quite right.He laughs way too hard at the tiniest joke, as if wanting to say "I get that it's a joke", he sometimes claps and bends at the waist to express just how much he gets it. He agrees with everything that the interviewer says with total seriousness, often when the interviewer is basically reading the back of the DVD cover back at him: Interviewer: "Well Vin, in this film your name is Zack Largo, and you play a…" Vin: "Yes. Spot on Conan. My name is Zack Largo, even though in real life it isn't! How about that? The director told me this is standard practise. You've done your research haven't you?!?" And of course I have painted myself into a corner here with the analogy, Vin's acting is…. Well…Robotic. The man doesn't say his lines as much as he recites it: And.Then. We. Will. Go. To. Dinner. Understood? All this is why A Man Apart is so apt for Vin, as it seems to be written by scriptwriting robot V2.4, and directed by a guy who followed an index rather than a standard plot structure.– - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - - Cliché #1 - Vin and his team are not your average cops.Vin and his team are closing in on a dangerous criminal in Mexico.Cliché #2 – You never really stop the bad guy when you it appears that you nail him early in the film.When dangerous criminal #1 lands in prison (hey Vin always gets his man) it is business as usual, as he continues to run sh*t from the inside.Cliché #3 – Dangerous criminal #2 is more vicious and ruthless than Dangerous Criminal #1.A new bad guy, dangerous criminal #2 arrives on the scene and starts aggressively taking turf, killing everyone in his way.Cliché #4 – He swears revenge, whatever the cost.Vin loses someone close to him.Cliché #5 – The hero can't act because he is restrained by the law.Vin gets close to a bad guy. Real close. They talk and trade insults and threats.Cliché #6 – The Hero is the only one who gets the blame.There is a shootout with Vin and a bad guy. Many cops are killed, some bad guys and civilians. Everyone is shooting.Vin is turfed from the force.Cliché #7 - The Hero goes "off-the-radar" to nab Dangerous Criminal.He will avenge the death of his wife and solve the case regardless of the cost.Cliché #8 – Does the Hero "really care too much?" Vin's "not your average cop-buddies" disregard all procedure and legality and help him.Cliché #8 – Lots of people get gunned down, justice gets served to those that deserve it.A necessary cliché… Vin and his buddies do years of police work in about a week by ignoring protocol and the law. Most of all Vin does it all his way. Shucks, I just wish there were more like him.Final Rating – 6 / 10. The dialogue is often laughable, the tone too serious for what is essentially a shlocky effort and the clichés are abundant.