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User Rating:
5.7/10   13,687 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Christian Gudegast (written by) &
Paul Scheuring (written by)
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Release Date:
4 April 2003 (USA) more
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Tagline:
When they took his love... they took his life. On April 4th. he's taking it back. more
Plot:
A man known as Diablo emerges to head a drug cartel after the previous leader is imprisoned. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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(34 articles)
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User Comments:
Not spectacular, but pretty good more (120 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Vin Diesel ... Sean Vetter

Larenz Tate ... Demetrius Hicks

Timothy Olyphant ... Hollywood Jack
Geno Silva ... Memo Lucero

Jacqueline Obradors ... Stacy Vetter

Steve Eastin ... Ty Frost

Juan Fernández ... Mateo Santos

Jeff Kober ... Pomona Joe
Marco Rodríguez ... Hondo (as Marco Rodriguez)
Mike Moroff ... Gustavo Leon

Emilio Rivera ... Garza

George Sharperson ... Big Sexy
Malieek Straughter ... Overdose

Alice Amter ... Marta
Jim Boeke ... Bad Cop
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
El Diablo (USA) (working title)
Extreme Rage (Germany)
This Man's Dominion (USA) (working title)
Untitled Vin Diesel Project (USA) (working title)
Un hombre diferente (Argentina) (Panama) (poster title) (Peru) (Venezuela) [es]
Un homme à part (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Одиночка (Russia) [ru]
Bull Dog (Japan) [ja]
Diablo (Spain) [es]
Extreme Rage (Austria) [de]
Il risolutore - A man apart (Italy) [it]
Intikam atesi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Mila Shel Gever (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
O Vingador (Brazil) [pt]
O timoros (Greece) [el]
Payback Time (Denmark) [da]
Túl mindenen (Hungary) [hu]
Un hombre solo (Spain) [es]
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong graphic violence, language, drug content and sexuality.
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109 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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The scene where Sean beats the dealer to death was cut by seven seconds. The original scene featured the dealer spitting out teeth and bloody pieces from his cheek. The scene was cut in order to get the R rating and not NC-17. more
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Continuity: When Sean and his group get in the silver car to leave the plane hanger, the car has a temporary license sticker in its rear window. When the car pulls out of the hanger, the temporary sticker is gone and there is a proper license plate where one should be. more
Quotes:
Sean: What does the name Overdose mean to you?
Hollywood Jack: Over who?
Sean: OVERDOSE!
Hollywood Jack: There's a human being named Overdose?
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Referenced in Be Kind Rewind (2008) more
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32 out of 40 people found the following comment useful.
Not spectacular, but pretty good, 20 October 2004
7/10
Author: tenten76 from London

One of those films which I don't think the current IMDb score (5.4) actually captures.

It's a bit formulaic - ex-bad-boy super-DEA agent gets the bad guy, pays with the life of his nearest & dearest, and goes out for revenge. Even I saw the reveal at the end coming way-off (I rarely do), but I still really enjoyed this film.

I thought it was very well plotted and paced; Vin Diesel played it gruff, but mostly low-key (no huge sobbing moments, or tearful walks on the beach, which was refreshing). His character, along with that of his friend, were fleshed out into more-rounded human beings than the usual action hero & sidekick. The enemies were straight out of 'the Big Book Of Drug Dealers and Cartel lackeys', but Timothy Oliphant was amusing and well played, as ever (also a great turn in The Good Girl).

And I found the violence viscerally satisfying & gritty, without being seriously glorified, or venturing (too far) into Bad Boys style Hollywood explosions, helicopter gunships, LA car chases etc.

Most surprising of all (to me) is that Vin agreed to grow his hair out a little - as you would in an extended hospital stay - and roughen up his otherwise clean shaven / macho male model looks. Wandering around with the goatee, he reminded me more of the guy out of Cypress Hill.

Kudos also goes to the ending. It could have finished two scenes earlier than it did, but the tying up of loose ends wasn't done in an overly sentimental or triumphant way, which was similarly refreshing.

Good screenplay, good acting (in a pretty standard film like this), and mostly avoiding the really obvious clichés of plot & character. I really enjoyed it. On the scale of revenge movies - it's not as good as Mel Gibson's remake of Payback, or The Rock in the remake of Walking Tall. But it would hold its own alongside them in a collector's box set.

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