Recently, Fox served up the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Bones" episode 12 of season 10. The episode is entitled, "The Teacher in the Books," and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting stuff as Brennan takes up Twitter classes. A school teacher turns up dead in a bookstore, and more. In the new, 12th episode press release: The Jeffersonian Team Investigates The Death Of A School Teacher. Press release number 2: When an affluent school teacher is found dead in an abandoned bookstore, the teachers and students at her school are going to become suspects in the case. In the meantime, Brennan's publisher will encourage her to join Twitter to help grow her fan base, and "squintern" Jessica Warren (guest star Laura Spencer) will teach Brennan some tricks to master the Twitter-verse, skills Brennan is going to enthusiastically puts to use. Guest stars feature: Patricia Belcher as Ausa Caroline Julian,...
- 3/26/2015
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Opens Friday, April 4
Nearly two years after principal photography, New Line is releasing "A Man Apart", hoping the movie might benefit from the box office muscle developed by its star, Vin Diesel, in his subsequent production, the extreme actioner "XXX". The film will probably satisfy his action-movie fans, though those unaware of the film's history may wonder why the actor has regressed to such a bare-bones thriller, albeit one with stylish flourishes. Why an "X" following "XXX"?
"A Man Apart" plays all the usual angles: the nonconformist cop who steps outside the law to avenge his wife's murder; the blurring of the line between the bad and good guys; the drug deals made in topless bars; the climactic chase through the sewers. We've seen all this before, but F. Gary Gray directs with a determination that style will win out over substance. It doesn't, but the energy he brings to the venture makes a pedestrian movie look far sharper than it deserves.
The opening sequence details how Drug Enforcement Administration agents Sean Vetter (Diesel) and Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate) take down a Baja drug cartel biggie (Geno Silva in the aging-gentleman-drug-dealer mode pioneered by Fernando Rey in "The French Connection"). While the DEA in Los Angeles celebrates with nonstop partying at Sean's Malibu beach house -- on a drug agent's salary he has a house in Malibu? -- an elusive figure calling himself Diablo lays claim to the Baja cartel with bloody killings and hijackings. Apparently believing he doesn't stand a chance of success unless he takes out Sean, a hit is ordered. But the assassination goes awry, and Sean's wife (Jacqueline Obradors) is killed.
Once Sean recovers from his own wounds, he goes berserk, turning into a badass with a hair-trigger temper and complete disregard for anyone's civil rights. This is tolerated for a while, but after playing Russian roulette with a suspect's skull and roughing up a pretty-boy drug dealer (Timothy Olyphant), Sean is suspended by a superior officer (Steve Eastin). So Sean enlists his old gangster pal from the 'hood (George Sharperson) to go after Diablo outside the law.
While illogic reigns, the only point to any of this is to get to the chases, shootouts and general mayhem. Gray's dexterous style creates the impression of nonstop movement with a mobile camera, aerial shots, smooth editing and a fine sense of pace.
Diesel, sporting a goatee worthy of a North Beach poet, barges through the movie with the sass his fans have come to expect -- that barely controlled fury and ironic smile on his face implying complete control of any situation. All other roles are designed as people for Diesel to react to -- or against. Olyphant is amusingly flamboyant, while Tate makes a good sidekick even if his willingness to go along with his partner's extralegal moves makes little sense.
Technical credits are superior to the material.
A MAN APART
New Line Cinema
A Vincent Newman & Tucker Tooley and Joseph Nittolo Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: F Gary Gray
Screenwriters: Christian Gudegast, Paul Scheuring
Producers: Tucker Tooley, Vincent Newman, Joseph Nittolo, Vin Diesel
Executive producers: Michael De Luca, Claire Rudnick Polstein, F Gary Gray
Director of photography: Jack N Green
Production designer: Ida Random
Music: Anne Dudley
Co-producer: George Zakk
Costume designer: Shawn Barton
Editors: Bob Brown, William Hoy
Cast:
Sean Vetter: Vin Diesel
Demetrius Hicks: Larenz Tate
Jack Slayton: Timothy Olyphant
Stacy Vetter: Jacqueline Obradors
Memo Lucero: Geno Silva
Mateo Santos: Juan Fernandez
Ty Frost: Steve Eastin
Big Sexy: George Sharperson
Running time --110 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Nearly two years after principal photography, New Line is releasing "A Man Apart", hoping the movie might benefit from the box office muscle developed by its star, Vin Diesel, in his subsequent production, the extreme actioner "XXX". The film will probably satisfy his action-movie fans, though those unaware of the film's history may wonder why the actor has regressed to such a bare-bones thriller, albeit one with stylish flourishes. Why an "X" following "XXX"?
"A Man Apart" plays all the usual angles: the nonconformist cop who steps outside the law to avenge his wife's murder; the blurring of the line between the bad and good guys; the drug deals made in topless bars; the climactic chase through the sewers. We've seen all this before, but F. Gary Gray directs with a determination that style will win out over substance. It doesn't, but the energy he brings to the venture makes a pedestrian movie look far sharper than it deserves.
The opening sequence details how Drug Enforcement Administration agents Sean Vetter (Diesel) and Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate) take down a Baja drug cartel biggie (Geno Silva in the aging-gentleman-drug-dealer mode pioneered by Fernando Rey in "The French Connection"). While the DEA in Los Angeles celebrates with nonstop partying at Sean's Malibu beach house -- on a drug agent's salary he has a house in Malibu? -- an elusive figure calling himself Diablo lays claim to the Baja cartel with bloody killings and hijackings. Apparently believing he doesn't stand a chance of success unless he takes out Sean, a hit is ordered. But the assassination goes awry, and Sean's wife (Jacqueline Obradors) is killed.
Once Sean recovers from his own wounds, he goes berserk, turning into a badass with a hair-trigger temper and complete disregard for anyone's civil rights. This is tolerated for a while, but after playing Russian roulette with a suspect's skull and roughing up a pretty-boy drug dealer (Timothy Olyphant), Sean is suspended by a superior officer (Steve Eastin). So Sean enlists his old gangster pal from the 'hood (George Sharperson) to go after Diablo outside the law.
While illogic reigns, the only point to any of this is to get to the chases, shootouts and general mayhem. Gray's dexterous style creates the impression of nonstop movement with a mobile camera, aerial shots, smooth editing and a fine sense of pace.
Diesel, sporting a goatee worthy of a North Beach poet, barges through the movie with the sass his fans have come to expect -- that barely controlled fury and ironic smile on his face implying complete control of any situation. All other roles are designed as people for Diesel to react to -- or against. Olyphant is amusingly flamboyant, while Tate makes a good sidekick even if his willingness to go along with his partner's extralegal moves makes little sense.
Technical credits are superior to the material.
A MAN APART
New Line Cinema
A Vincent Newman & Tucker Tooley and Joseph Nittolo Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: F Gary Gray
Screenwriters: Christian Gudegast, Paul Scheuring
Producers: Tucker Tooley, Vincent Newman, Joseph Nittolo, Vin Diesel
Executive producers: Michael De Luca, Claire Rudnick Polstein, F Gary Gray
Director of photography: Jack N Green
Production designer: Ida Random
Music: Anne Dudley
Co-producer: George Zakk
Costume designer: Shawn Barton
Editors: Bob Brown, William Hoy
Cast:
Sean Vetter: Vin Diesel
Demetrius Hicks: Larenz Tate
Jack Slayton: Timothy Olyphant
Stacy Vetter: Jacqueline Obradors
Memo Lucero: Geno Silva
Mateo Santos: Juan Fernandez
Ty Frost: Steve Eastin
Big Sexy: George Sharperson
Running time --110 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 3/31/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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