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By
ETHAN CUHULINN
Vin Diesel stars as a DEA
agent whose wife is murdered by drug dealers,
after he puts away a Mexican kingpin. Grieving,
angry, and not entirely lucid, he seeks revenge.
But is the imprisoned kingpin who's behind it, or
the mysterious Diablo, apparently an even more
ruthless drug dealer who's attempting to take over
the kingpin's territory?
I expected at least some satisfying action and
violence levels from this admittedly modest
feature (it barely made a splash, either
critically or in terms of box-office, during its
ho-hum theatrical release, despite the fact that
Diesel is pretty hot right now). What I did not
expect was a story with a couple of
semi-intelligent twists. And Diesel does a pretty
decent job acting as a man on the edge. Watch it,
as long as you can get through the set-up (you
know that when you see a loving couple dancing by
a setting sun early on in a flick the wife is
toast 10 minutes afterward) and a surprisingly
flaccid ending with a message about choosing The
Law over revenge (hey guys, it's a Vinmeister
action flick, for chrissakes!).
Seven deleted scenes are the major extra feature.
Some do add to the story, so I don't know why they
were excised; and one is an extended version of an
exotic dance, in case anybody likes this sort of
thing. A trailer and promos for New Line's "Run
Ronnie Run" and "Highwaymen" that run together are
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