Eye Candy #322 - "A Man Apart"

A Man Apart:  A fairly pedestrian, middle-of-the-road entry into the world of macho violent revenge-driven escapism, "A Man Apart" is a Vin Diesel project that followed the poo-tacular "XXX". He plays DEA agent Sean Vetter, who runs afoul of Mexican drug kingpin. Bullets fly, his wife gets killed, and suddenly Vetter is out to get him some of that which is best served cold, all while completely denying the fact that it was his irresponsibility and blase tough guy act that got his wife killed in the first place (i.e. when you take down the drug kingpin, you probably don't carry on like everything is normal). Throw in one WEIRD performance by Timothy Olyphant (better here than he was in "Live Free or Die Hard" or "The Hitman", but chewing scenery nonetheless), and you've got "A Man Apart". Typically I like director F Gary Gray's stuff (he did the great "Italian Job" remake that I can't not watch when it's on TV), but here, the script just doesn't have a lot to it. Best part - great job from character actor Jeff Kober, who usually gets to play the part of his chin. Woodchuck sez, "I expected better from Gray, and expected about the same from Diesel"