With A Man Apart, director F. Gary Gray tries to give a typical revenge flick the weight and urgency of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. The movie opens today.

Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) and his partner Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate) are DEA agents who have been waging a seven-year investigation of the Mexican drug cartels.
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You may have seen Traffik, the harrowing, 1989 British TV mini-series about the Pakistan-to-England drug cartels that inspired Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. It was so raw and revealing that you had to watch.

You may have seen Soderbergh's brilliantly orchestrated, multi-storied American version, which deconstructed the business of drug running between Mexico and the U.S. It was so well-written, directed, acted and photographed that it asserted itself at the Oscars as a dark horse candidate.
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