A Man Apart

Wrapped nearly two years before its release in the wake of Vin Diesel's hugely popular THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001) and XXX (2002), this routine action picture doesn't miss a cliché. Gang-banger turned undercover narcotics agent Sean Vetter (Diesel) helps bring down Mexican drug lord Memo Lucero (Gino Silva), but loses his beloved wife, Tracy (Jacqueline Obradors), to thugs who were supposed to kill him. Mad with grief, Sean goes after her killers, and this time it's personal. Or, you can't kill a man who's already dead, or insert your favorite action-movie cliche here: Though briskly directed, this shoot 'em up is so relentlessly formulaic that's it's hard to...