: A Man Apart
This film has a lot of problems, but the main one is that there’s no action for the first hour. For an action film, that’s lame, but for an action film starring Vin Disel, that’s terrible, because it means he must pretend to act for that first hour. Tip for Vin: take a hint from Stallone and don’t take roles which require you to talk in complete sentences. Vin would be great in a film like Rambo: First Blood, but in a film like this where he’s supposed to be emotional because his wife was killed by a drug cartel, it’s just pathetic. The guy has a single expression on his face the whole movie and he utters lines as though he’s struggling to read. Aside from Vin’s weak performance, there just isn’t enough action in this film. The plot is weak as well (though it has potential). Mostly these flaws are magnified by the film’s glacier pace. I’d say run the film at 2x and trim the first hour to ten minutes and you’d have a decent little action piece.
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