If you’re looking for a new spin on the good cop bad cop action movie, you’ll find it. But if you’re looking for a good Vin Diesel movie, you won’t.

“A Man Apart” is what the title suggests. A man, Sean Vetter (Diesel), is torn apart by the death of his wife at the hands of a druglord he helped put behind bars.

The movie essentially is about the changing of power of the druglords in Mexico and a gangster turned cop, turned gangster again.

What the movie does is paint a pretty picture of a man and wife on the verge of starting a family, and then rips it all away.

Then it shows you how bad life can get, with new and inventive ways to kill crack dealers.

As the movie rolls on and the death toll rises, Vetter becomes more trigger happy and just plain itchy when it comes to being pushed by anyone and often loses it.

This brings on the only good part of the movie – Vetter killing a man by punching him to death.

Along with having a thin plot and not bringing anything new to theaters, “A Man Apart” has problems with the story line being logical.

The first problem is Vetter eventually gets himself fired because of his uncontrollable actions that get a few fellow agents killed. Quickly after that he organizes a prisoner transfer for the druglord he put behind bars. The last time I checked, a former police officer can’t do much of anything with the law, especially something on the level of a prisoner transfer.

Also, the ending is confusing. Throughout the film Vetter is on a rampage and kills every bad guy he comes into contact with after they killed his wife. In the end, he essentially walks up to the last guy left and arrests him. Why would he just change his pace all of a sudden and not kill him as he did everyone else?

“A Man Apart” tries to throw in the age-old idea that to kill a monster, you must become a monster.

Seems like a perfect movie for Vin Diesel, right?

Well, that is not the case here because Diesel is portrayed as a self-tormented hero who keeps all of his emotions to himself. Usually Diesel plays very fast paced and intimidating roles. In this movie he becomes a glorified gangster, which is not very entertaining in Diesel standards.

The action scenes don’t bring anything new to the table, and there is a bunch of naked girls that should give you nothing to complain about.

But, it definitely cheapens the movie because it seems they paid more for the not-so-shy girls than they did for someone to write a good plot.

“A Man Apart” is just a movie that begs the question, “Why did Vin Diesel pick this movie?”

It was either to try something new that didn’t work or because he was bored.