Vin Diesel plays DEA agent Sean Vetter sent to Mexico to help arrest the leader of the largest drug cartel supplying the US. His name is Memo Lucero. After Lucero is arrested, Vetter and his fellow officers celebrate at his beach side home. That night, Vetter and his wife are shot; she is killed, and her burial takes place while Vetter is in the hospital recovering. It turns out that a new guy is rising to take the place Lucero left empty when he was jailed. El Diablo is the one responsible for the hit on Vetter and his wife, and the rest of the film is spent chasing down El Diablo. In another comment, Memo Lucero is consistently incorrectly called Ramon Cadena. Other than that, I agree... the film is full of bad clichés... cop goes renegade after the murder of his significant other, but can't really get anything accomplished until the top cops take his gun and badge. It's incredibly formulaic. That said, I've seen worse, and it's a decent diversion.
Review of A Man Apart
