Fresh and Exciting

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

had high expectations for this film, but was somewhat disappointed. The movie was too predictable. Some scenes in the film are not understood, like why would diablo kill his own wife and kids or did he kill them or not... The main character Sean would go to any lengths 'cos his wife got killed but shows no remorse when 3 of the officers who also may be somebody's loved one get killed when he lost control. I'm not sure what the endgame for the movie is, initially the story line seemed to be to stop drug trafficking, in the end i'm confused... so what exactly was achieved?? the casting... it's like nobody really clicks together... in fast and furious when Letty is killed and Dom goes after the killers, i'm moved, its believable, it seems justified. In this one it seems like just another scene to form a plot. It was still entertaining especially the shooting scenes.

Action packed thriller dealing with the drug cartels in Mexico and elsewhere which permeate chaos in the United States.Catching a major drug king-pin costs Vin Diesel his wife when the former extracts revenge.Overwhelmed by the killing of his wife, Diesel becomes an out of the control cop and his actions prove deadly to 3 fellow police officers.The film would have been a better one had we gotten a clearer picture from the inside regarding these cartels. When one falls, another one is ready to take their place and appear to be more dangerous and violent than their predecessors.The film does show cohesiveness among the group of narcotic agent police in working together. There is certainly a camaraderie that exists among them. I just wish the film would have shown cohesiveness, other than becoming a shooting gallery in the never ending violence-cycle.

A pathetic macho-man flick.The woman who played Diesel's wife was so cloyingly clingy, she seemed like a roll of clingwrap stuck to duct tape, wrapped around the grunting bald guy. Diesel spoke to her in honey dripping, endearing terms and each of them focused on each other as if neither of them had sex in decades and had massive doses of Viagra. Okay - we get it - Vin Diesel is not gay.They can't make eye contact without having simultaneous mutual orgasms. She's not even that hot and he's..well...bald and lumpy. Diesel walked around in a tight wife beater A-shirt and sported male boobs - what's next - male camel toe?? Diesel's friends seemed seedier than the folks you'd see in a urine-splashed inner city subway station rolled up with a bottle of Muscatel. The villain was the same guy who plays "The Most Interesting Man in the World" for the Dos Equis beer commercials. Too funny.Diesel grunts and punches his way through a predictable juvenile bore fest.

First of all, I have to say that this movie is definitively underestimated. What is the movie about? Well, the plot is nothing new or special. The two DEA agents Vetter and Hicks (Vin Diesel & Larenz Tate) arrest the leader of the Mexican drug syndicate. A new - and mysterious - one appears and one of his first actions is to get rid of Diesel's character. Instead of killing the agent the assassins shot his wife. Hungering for revenge Vetter does everything to find out who the new leader of the syndicate is. As I said. Nothing new. But does this simple idea make a movie bad? Not necessarily and in this case the answer is: NO. Vin Diesel is neither the cool guy like in 'Pitch Black' and 'xXx' nor the funny guy like in 'The Pacifier'. He is, let's say, real. His character makes mistakes and therefore presented human. This makes him plausible in his role - like all other characters as well. Due to that you get an authentic and realistic movie. So, don't expect a firework of explosions like in other Vin-Diesel-movies. The key term here is: authenticity.