99th Worst Movie: A Man Apart

"A Man Apart" Starring Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate and Timothy Olyphant
Directed by F. Gary Gray

A Man At Heart
By Michele Dillon

Vin Diesel: manly, muscular, dreamy...at least that is the perception of him by most easily distracted teenage girls. My perception of him is more like, I would like to get my hands on the person who handed him a script and then told him he could act, and then give that person a big giant noogie! I would be one of those people, and there aren't too many of them, who even though I see a preview of a movie and can tell it won't be good, I still want to give it a shot. Hence, it has always been my plan to watch A Man Apart at some point but I actually never got
around to it until now. The only reason I even thought about watching the movie in the first
place is because it had really good music in the trailer, which, strangly, is also how Diesel got me to watch Babylon AD, another disappointment. I am going to go ahead and say that this is yet another movie that is deserving of being on this list. I almost fell asleep twice, I thought the movie was going to end in three different places (which it never did) and it was very predictable. Yet it was still a step up in script as opposed to Catwoman, I will give it that. However, the whole movie did not make logical sense. Toward the beginning of the movie (spoiler alert), Diesel's wife gets killed and almost immediately he is already back at work trying to bring down her killer. That part makes sense, what doesn't make sense is that his boss at the DEA, doesn't give him any time to grieve and waits for Diesel to actually mess up before removing him from the case. Well duh, he is trying to hunt down the killer of his wife, he is not going to just arrest the guy, he is going to beat him to a pulp and risk other officers lives while doing it. I did not like the film style of the director at all either. He was all over the place. The movie is being filmed in what is supposed to be over 5 different locations of California, you can't even keep track of where they originally started and why it even matters that they are in San Pedro or Lower East Side. So end result of this horrible experience: droopy eyes and an increasing hatred of Vin Diesel.