This is the role Vin "Mr. Personality" Diesel was meant to play, and he plays it well. Expect good badass action in this "what you see is what you get" saturday night thriller.
At the beginning of the 2000's, following 'Pitch Black', 'The Fast and the Furious' and 'xXx', Vin Diesel was heralded as the next generation action movie star. A decade later, we can say that Vin Diesel didn't really manage to reach this status. After his original success, this movie was his first flop. It is basically a throwback to those macho action movies from the 80's. The directing was not... read more
War on drugs or personal vendetta? Line blurs. One sure thing is that our hero, Vin Diesel as a DEA agent, puts his life on the line.
Your average action packed movie with plenty of shooting and blood, and a few catchy lines: "If I wanted you dead, you would be."
Not the most gripping thriller, but not bad either if you are just looking for a flick to kill time.
Description:Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks are members of the DEA who are fighting an ongoing drug war on the California/Mexico border, they are most successful at it because of their edge of growing up on the street and being thugs converted to cops. The DEA busts one of the major players by the name of "Memo" Lucero and imprison him Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks are members of the DEA who are fighting an ongoing drug war on the California/Mexico border, they are most successful at it because of their edge of growing up on the street and being thugs converted to cops. The DEA busts one of the major players by the name of "Memo" Lucero and imprison him in the United States but then a major player named Diablo then takes over the business and now he is now the major player targeted by Vetter and his team. But when Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible and in the process has to seek help from the imprisoned Lucero in order to catch Diablo. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge...... (more)(less)
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A man known as Diablo emerges to head a drug cartel after the previous leader is imprisoned.
This marks my fifth film directed by F. Gary Gray. It has a few familiar faces including Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Ken Davitian, Timothy Olyphant, Emilio Rivera, Jeff Kober, and Michael Papajohn. The acting is alright. There is plenty of violence some of which is way more graphic than I was expecting. There were some decent twists. The ending was actually pretty bad ass. It is worth a 1 time watch.
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“At the beginning of the 2000's, following 'Pitch Black', 'The Fast and the Furious' and 'xXx', Vin Diesel was heralded as the next generation action movie star. A decade later, we can say that Vin Diesel didn't really manage to reach this status. After his original success, this movie was his first flop. It is basically a throwback to those macho action movies from the 80's. The directing was not bad, with a rather gritty and stylish look. The action scenes were decent but nothing really impressive and I can't say I really enjoyed it. I mean, Vin Diesel is really charismatic and has the potential to be a badass action star but the story was just really weak and actually rather boring. Furthermore, they tried to add a stupid twist at the end but it made the whole thing even more nonsensica” read more
BadSmile added this to a list 1 year, 6 months ago
"12.05.2011
"What does the name Overdose mean to you?"
"Over who?!"
"OVERDOSE!"
"There's a human being named Overdose?"
The few scenes Timothy Olyphant had saved this film. He is always awesome."
Alabama1971 added this to a list 2 years, 2 months ago
"Huumeskoude on jahdannut vuosikausia meksikaanien huumekunkkua. Just kun asiat rupee rullaamaan hyvään suuntaan, tapahtuu skouden mehukkaalle mimmille kummia. Kostoretki on tosiasia."
SandM1827 added this to a list 2 years, 5 months ago
"Watched: 5.2 TV
Osasipa olla kökköä katsottavaa. Ihan sääliksi käy Vin Dieseliä, eihän hän ole tehnyt oikeastaan yhtään hyvää elokuvaa. A Man Apart taitaa olla hänen paras toimintapaukuttelunsa ja tämänkin pisteet ovat vain 1,5. Odotuksia ei ollut yhtään, mutta en sentäään odottanut näin suurta kalkkunaa. Vin Dieselin actiontähden asema kiikkuu nyt aika vaakalaudalla. Valitse roolisi paremmin Vin."