The early 2000s crime thriller benefited from the popularity that Fast & Furious had brought to Vin Diesel.
Although Vin Diesel has been active since 1990 and we had him in films like Saving Private Ryan either Pitch Blackthe beginning of the saga RiddickIt was not until Fast & Furious when his popularity skyrocketed. In fact, many of the action movies of the actor benefited from their first time playing Dominic Toretto.
One of those productions was Diablo (A Man Apart)a crime thriller where Diesel plays an anti-drug agent who frequently flirts with the other side of that fine line that demarcates what is legal from what is illegal.
F.Gary Gray (The Italian Job, Fast & Furious 8), was in charge of directing this film, whose cast also included Timothy Olyphant, Larenz Tate, Jacqueline Obradors, Geno Silva, George Shaperson, Steve Eastin, Juan Fernández, Jeff Kober and Marco RodrÃguez.
Within the filmography of Vin Dieseland without counting the Riddick deliveries, Diablo is a movie much darker than what the actor usually stars in.
A brutal thriller that never quite found its audience
Diablo is the name of the new boss of a drug cartel that operates on the border between Mexico and the United States. The former cartel boss makes a deal with a drug agent who has very good reasons for wanting revenge on the guy who overthrew him.
Diablo may not be one of Vin Diesel’s most attractive films, but it gives us a glimpse of a less common record of the actor on screen who, although he tried to lead Fast & Furious at the time, was not on the same terms.
If you have never seen Devil or, you simply feel like starting the week with this merciless thriller, you have Vin Diesel’s movie tonight in La Sexta, starting at 10:30 p.m. No streaming platform currently has it in its catalog, so we cannot propose alternatives if your schedule is regular.
