A Man Apart (2003)
Directed by F. Gary Gray
When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. 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.
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It wants to be a modern-noir crime drama in the vein of Michael Mann, but though director Christian Gudegast—taking up the camera after writing such movies as London Has Fallen and A Man Apart —has the chops to approximate Mann, he does not have the style to do something interesting with his homage.
For proof, look no further than “Den of Thieves,” the new film from screenwriter Christian Gudegast (“A Man Apart” & “London Has Fallen”), making his directing debut here.
Christian Gudegast, writer of A Man Apart (2003) and London Has Fallen (2016), makes his directorial debut with Den of Thieves , and it’s everything he’s been building toward as a creator of generic, testosterone-driven crime dramas that offer nothing new.
Following in the footsteps of Michael Mann’s 1995 classic Heat (not to mention coming quick on the heels of John Hillcoat’s Triple 9 released last February), director Christian Gudegast, the screenwriter behind London has Fallen and A Man Apart making his directorial debut, attempts to revitalize the cops and robbers melodrama with the testosterone-filled action-thriller Den of Thieves.
But the hulking, permanently disheveled Butler is no Pacino, Gudegast, the screenwriter of such previous gems as London Has Fallen and A Man Apart , is no Mann, and Den of Thieves is decidedly no Heat .
Thankfully, he confirmed that I was, in fact, fully sane and that a film directed and co-written by the man who wrote A Man Apart and London Has Fallen is a quality product not despite Butler’s presence but in large part because of it.
This is essentially a revenge story, in the grand tradition of Death Wish (although it bears a stronger resemblance to the recent Vin Diesel bomb, A Man Apart).
The trailer makes the film look like nothing other than a comic-based version of the execrable Vin Diesel vehicle A Man Apart — and in terms of plot, that’s actually about it.
After Vin's stumble last year in the tepid "A Man Apart," the Rock has followed with the exemplary action-comedy "The Rundown" and now this testosterone-pumping spectacle.