Exit Wounds Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES
What Can Two Men Do Against A Gang Of Crooked Cops? Whatever It Takes.
This Is Gonna Hurt
Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn't follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it's very difficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust.
| Steven Seagal | Orin Boyd |
| Isaiah Washington | George Clark |
| Anthony Anderson | T.K. Johnson |
| Michael Jai White | Lewis Strutt |
| Bill Duke | Chief Hinges |
| Jill Hennessy | Annette Mulcahy |
| Tom Arnold | Henry Wayne |
| Bruce McGill | Frank Daniels |
| David Vadim | Matt Montini |
| Eva Mendes | Trish |
| Matthew G. Taylor | Useldinger |
| Paolo Mastropietro | Parker |
| Shane Daly | Fitz |
| Drag-On | Shaun Rollins |
| DMX | Latrell Walker |
| Andrzej Bartkowiak |
5.10 out of 10 (8289 votes)
Visitor Reviews
"I'm a sh*t magnet." Routine Seagal action thriller.
posted on 16 Aug 2009Exit Wounds is set in Detroit where an attempt is made on the Vice President's (Chris Lawford) life, tough city cop Orin Boyd (Steven Seagal) takes it upon himself to single handedly save the Vice President & start World War III in the process. Boyd's bosses aren't happy, the secret service aren't happy & the Vice President isn't happy so as punishment Boyd is sent to work in Precinct 15, the biggest s-hole in Detroit & undergo anger therapy. Boyd is partnered up with patrol cop George Clark (Isaiah Washington) who quickly stumble across a plot by a gang of corrupt cops to steal impounded heroin from the police lock up & sell it, unsure of who they can trust Boyd & Clark have to go it alone dodging bullets as they try to clean up Precinct 15...This American Australian co-production was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak & one has to say that Exit Wounds is a pretty ordinary & routine action thriller about some one man army super cop bringing down some drug dealers. The script by Ed Horowitz & Richard D'Ovidio was based on the novel by John Westermann & feels like a mishmash of action film clichés cobbled together. There's the obligatory white cop black cop partnership which never actually goes anywhere, the lone maverick cop whose wife left him because of the job & has to go it alone to catch the bad guy's, the predictable plot twists, various fight & action scenes which have little relevance to the story, some awful comedy relief & a fairly routine Hollywood thriller plot about drugs. Nothing really gels that well in Exit Wounds, most of the events seem unconnected & somewhat random. To be fair to Exit Wounds though it passes 100 odd minutes harmlessly enough, it's certainly not the worst film out there & there's one or two memorably spectacular action set-pieces & there's a funny little nod towards the brutality of Seagal's earlier films in that his character is forced to go to anger management therapy in a fairly amusing scene which also pokes a little bit of fun at his weight & that he is getting fatter & fatter with each passing film he makes. Unfortunately to balance that amusing scene out the ending is truly dire with the two main comedy relief character's talking to each other & trying to be funny, a truly embarrassing scene. While there's nothing hugely wrong with Exit Wounds there's nothing that great about it either, basically it's fairly predictable Hollywood stuff saved by some impressive action scenes.Director Bartkowiak does a decent job, the film looks nice with bright cinematography, some nice angles especially during the opening shoot-out on the bridge, there's plenty of clean lines, fast sports cars, hip music & it has a bit of style about it. The action scenes save Exit Wounds, from a huge shoot-out on a bridge to exploding cars to gunfights to martial arts fights to motorbike chases to car chases to all sorts of explosions, property damage & brutality. It actually looks like Seagal put some effort into the fight scenes in Exit Wounds, in fact Exit Wounds is probably the best film Seagal has made during the twenty first century & the last of his big budget Hollywood flicks with Warner Bros. While filming in Hamilton during the scene when the van rolls upside & skids along the street with everyone inside jumping out a stuntman died after the stunt went wrong, this scene was re-shot later which probably cost a lot since it's one of the more expensive looking action scenes in the film. Apparently filming was also delayed when actor David Vadim was arrested & charged with sexual assault by police on the set!With a supposed budget of about $33,000,000 Exit Wounds did OK at the box-office taking about $20,000,000 during it's opening weekend. The film certainly has that big budget Hollywood polish about it & the production values are high & glossy. Set in Detroit but largely filmed in Canada. The acting is alright, Seagal is OK I suppose. When I first saw the credits & saw someone called DMX I thought isn't that a make of bike? But then I realised that's a BMX... Fine character actors such as Tom Arnold, Isaiah Washington, Bill Duke, Jill Henessey & Bruce McGill are all wasted in small roles but the films still definitely better for having them there.Exit Wounds is a pretty routine action thriller that takes most of the Hollywood stereotype's & clichés & churns out a reasonable flick with which to pass 100 odd minutes. Exit Wounds is nothing amazing but it's not too bad & the action scenes provide plenty of bang for your money, neither the best action film out there or the worst.
Average film, notable for a lot of missed potential
posted on 25 Jul 2009Made unpopular within his own precinct after embarrassing the vice president, maverick cop Orin Boyd is transferred to a notoriously difficult department. Once there he uncovers a group of dirty cops selling heroin to drug dealer Latrell Walker. However Orin finds it difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.Despite having been let down by Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 The Grave, I still was interested in seeing this film in the same sort of genre of hip hop/martial arts that seems to be doing the rounds of late. I didn't expect too much of it and maybe that's why I actually quite enjoyed it. I found the plot a little too poorly explained until late in the game and also it was a little overly unlikely, but this is a minor compliant. I was more interested if it was an exciting film with plenty of martial arts stuff.Despite some moves being a little weak, most of it is actually pretty good if not great. Occasionally some of the wire work is badly done and the actors don't really look like they are moving gracefully – more that they are being pulled around by an unseen force! The film managed to not give Seagal too much to do and thus it never really had him looking silly. The actual fight of the film (Jai White and Seagal) is not dazzling but is impressive as White shows a great deal more agility than Seagal. DMX's skills are a little lacking and (as in C2TG) he doesn't fit the martial arts style of fighting – the scene where he faces up to Seagal exposes just how short and skinny a man he is!Another reviewer said he would like to see comedy in this film because he thought it would have been better. I think he missed the point – there was lots of comedy in this film – just none of it was actually funny. Anderson does his usual comedy sidekick routine but is woeful as always. The best (worst) example of the film misjudging the comedy is the scene with Anderson and Tom Arnold that plays over the end credits – supposedly ad-libbed and hilarious, it is actually embarrassing and excruciating to watch! I agree with the other reviewer, I wish there HAD been laughs in this film.Beyond those I have already mentioned, the cast is deep with well known faces – Duke, McGill, Mendes, Drag-On (!), Jai White and Washington to name a few. Sadly they are given very little to do and, rather than project cast depth, they only suggest an untapped potential. Overall, I still enjoyed the film as the action was actually pretty good for a Seagal flick. A word of caution would be that I was in a very forgiving mood when I watched this film and even then I still accept that it is average at best.
masterpiece comeback
posted on 23 Jul 2009for everybody sayin' that this movie isn't that good at all.. i can say .. man.. you must have been in a bad mood.i'm doin' aikido myself and of course i always like somebody doin' the same thing in movies though. steven seagal is a great aikidoka and a great actor.why is everybody always looking for a movie that is straight for thinking or doing a great plot?entertaining movies don't need good acting.. they need a guy who can't get hurt always is cold and mysterious and kicks a** as nobody else!it is the great comeback for seagal. i hope he'll do more of those movies with even more action and more aikido in it!!! GREAT!!!
STEVEN SEAGAL'S BEST! NOTE TO RAZZIES HERE AS WELL!
posted on 07 Jul 2009The Razzies should stop picking on bad actors, simply because they were never taught how to act and were suckered (let's say) into the business. They are martial artists, not actors and all action stars can't act (Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme, Bosworth, Lungdren)! WHATEVER! So this isn't about the movie (IT'S ACTION PACKED, WELL-PACED, HUMOROUS AND STEVEN SEGAL'S BEST AND I GIVE IT AN 8/10)!
But leave Martial Artists Who Can't act alone, and as far as I'm concerned the Razzies should only pick on good actors who are expected to act well but act bad instead of bad actors who we all know act bad and do act bad! LEAVE THEM ALONE! We're just in it for the action and possibly a good time.. most likely! OK?
the mystical orange warrior returns
posted on 23 Jun 2009Some people when considering the ultimate police thrillers everfilmed may say: 'Serpico' or 'LA Confidential' to which I'd grab themby the wrist and flip them until they say 'Exit Wounds'. Mr Seagalhas become quite chubby in the movie but it doesn't hinder hisability to grab people by the wrist or the ability of the film to grab theviewers attention and not let go. It moves at a break neck pace asseveral action scenes show The Matrix how it should be done (mypersonal favourite sees Seagal disguise himself as a smallChinese man simply by wearing his hat). Seagal immerseshimself into the role of a policeman by cutting off his pony-tail andwearing a policeman's uniform, he truly is a pro. The story is alsotop notch involving corrupt policemen who make t-shirts out ofheroin, it's such a cool idea i can't believe no-one's thought of itbefore. All in all i think it's the greatest movie ever but unlike hisother films it doesn't feature a moose which is a shame.
A banal action movie
posted on 07 Jun 2009Besides the usual banal fighting scenes and car chases the story of this movie brings nothing new. It's the ordinary story about good cops against bad cops. And it's a men's movie. There's no love scene or affair involved and the only woman who takes part in the story, the glamorous police chief, plays a much secondary part. It's a movie you may see if you just haven't anything better to do. It may keep u entertained for 2 hours then.
Seagal pulls out a rabbit...
posted on 05 Jun 2009Orin Boyd (Steven Seagal) is a cop, who doesn't think too much of politics and even though he saves the vice president's life he is fired due to disobeying a direct order, but he gets reinstated yet with another precinct that has the worst reputation. He quickly makes enemies after destroying another cop's undercover bust and gets demoted to traffic knowing now he has hit rock bottom. Latrell Walker is a young rich African American, who likes money, cars and is friends with a bar owner T.K (Anthony Anderson)who has already gotten on Orin's bad side after pinching Orin's grill from his new truck. Orin realizes there is something more to this so after getting his new buddy Henry Wayne(Tom Arnold) to investigate he catches on to some dirty cops selling drugs to high buyers and Latrell is a big buyer.Steven was great in this movie although the smiling thing is just not working for him in this one either. An overweight cop running around getting airborne over cars and doing stunts that surprise you I even got the DVD to see the 19 minutes Making OF Exit Wounds which was a special feature on the DVD and it was funny to see a 6'5 Seagal do stunts like those. But in many scenes for instance the second fight scene with Latrell and Orin, someone else doubled for Steven that's for sure. Still it was a great way for a comeback after his short break. Anthony Anderson was the life of the movie he was so funny, Tom Arnold had a few scenes and his role seemed so perfect for him, as for Michael Jai White he is a terrific fighter and that body of his just made him seem perfect.DMX...okay...note he is a great singer, got a great voice and I'm a fan, but this guy just has to make up his mind, music or movies? Music is what he's good at, but movies...after seeing him for a few minutes in Romeo Must Die i figured I wouldn't be seeing him in any other roles yet here he is in this movie and now as a lead. His characters seem shallow and he can't be them, he seems too fake as Silk in Romeo Must Die and now as Latrell in this movie his scenes were worth a quick fast forward, but the movie was great and the story was great. Get the DVD it's worth a watch to see Anthony Anderson's 9 minutes of goofs in "a day in the life of A.A."
Everything that a "Stylized" Mediocre Action Film needs !
posted on 05 Jun 2009A list of everything the young film maker needs to please Seagel / DMX / fans of the genre and actors:1.) Provide a lot of the usual clichés and stereo-types that include a criminal who trying to free one of his partners, the head of the police station who's a jerk and a cop who is assigned to a new police station for not following his orders and nearly risking the life of somebody important.2.) Provide tons of non-stop, "over-the-top" action sequences that are very unrealistic, will bore non-Seagel fans and is the only reason this film is not at the Razzies.3.) Provide lots of characters who are vastly unlikeable and have criminal backgrounds.4.) All the music is Hip-Hop and Rap to accompany the fight scenes and overall, pretty "F.U.B.U.R." nature.5.) Have the film be directed by Andrez Bartoziak, who is notorious for other badly-done action films known as ROMEO MUST DIE, CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE and DOOM.6.) Have the plot be unoriginal and not even close to thrilling and you have a interesting turkey on your hands.7.) Last of all, have the end credits consist of Tom Arnold and Anthony Anderson, who are both minor characters in both this and CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE, be joking around crudely.It will please fans of the actors easily and/or for audiences who don't mind cliché-ridden thrillers that don't require them to think that much.
Seagal is back and he's jumping cars, QUALITY!!!
posted on 10 May 2009Exit Wounds is a great cheesy corrupt cop movie that is very cool and features a fat Steven Seagal kicking booty!! The movie has a good cast including a good performance from actor/rapper DMX as a rich clever bad boy trying to screw the corrupt cops to get his innocent brother out of jail!! Steven Seagal hasn't featured in a good movie for a long time(last being Out for Justice) but in this his cheesy portrayal of a cop with a bad reputation shows hes back to his best.Other Actors who star are Bill Duke, Tom Arnold and Anthony Anderson. Tom Arnold is brilliant in the movie and also Anthony Anderson is really good to. I think he has come a long way since his was in US TV show Hangtime as a fat basketball player??? But the sequence with Tom Arnold and Anthony Anderson at the end is pure quality and was not even rehearsed!!With Joel Silver and the director of Romeo Must Die bossing the film it was bound to be action packed with great fight and action sequences and it certainly doesn't disappoint. Also it has a killer soundtrack featuring tracks from DMX, Nas, Trick Daddy, Memphis Bleek etc...This movie is by far no Crouching Tiger or Moulin Rouge but is certainly one of my favourites of the year!!!! Cheesy Action Yeah Baby!
Seagal + guns x improbable situation = Exit Wounds
posted on 04 Apr 2009Where to begin? The acting? Don't go there. The action sequences? The film itself is an action sequenced intruded every now and then by neanderthal dialogue.Nobody can get anything out of this film, I would have enjoyed myself more if instead of letting my friend choose the video, he simply pummelled me into a coma with the box. Insert it into the video and it does just that anyway.Seagal can't fight anymore hence the crap close-ups and extended gun battles. DMX is nothing special. Still, the studio's make 'em, and the morons lap 'em up. Stop, and think before you waste your time with this, you could be doing so much more with your life. And if you see a friend in the same situation I was in, simply take the video from their hand, and beat them senseless with it.
A COMEBACK FOR SEAGAL!
posted on 21 Feb 2009This movie was an improvement from "On Deadly Ground". Ditching that ponytail was a change for him. Having DMX was cool too. All those all stars cast have helped Seagal as well. My favorite was the fight scene between Seagal and DMX. It was a blur the first time, but when you see it more, you get the hang of it. Know the truth is always a must, but when you have a job like DMX's, you can go wrong. Michael Jai White was awesome as a villain, he was smooth in Universal Soldier: The Return as SETH! Everyone in the movie were awesome. That's a high kick! Rating 4 out of 5 stars!
Pretty good action flick if you ignore DMX
posted on 30 Jan 2009This is the best Segal movie since Under Seige II. Good action sequences, typical Tom Arnold side-kick lunacy, and fine soundtrack. Segal's finally dropped a few pounds too (I for one was getting tired of his double-chin dominating scenes).The main downer here is DMX's beyond aweful performance. You'd think a guy who's made a career of playing the thug life could do the same in a movie. But every line of his is delivered like a 5th-grade Christmas performance: no emotion, blank stare, obviously praying he just remembers his lines. Hey people, just because you want to do the black rapper + white action star thing doesn't mean you have to settle for stiffs. Will Smith, Ice Cube, 2 Pac, Ice T, LL Cool J, and others prove that there are plenty of rappers who can act; next time use one.But if you like action flicks, especially of the Steven Segal variety, you will certainly enjoy Exit Wounds.
A Hackneyed but High-Octane Urban Crime Thriller
posted on 25 Nov 2008Steven Seagal manages a successful big-screen comeback in director Andrzej Bartkowiak's "Exit Wounds," a hackneyed but high octane, urban crime thriller co-starring rapper DMX and "Spawn" star Michael Jai White, with comedians Anthony Anderson and Tom Arnold. Seagal's popularity as an atypical action hero who wore a prissy little ponytail as well as prayer beads peaked with director Andrew Davis' 1992 blockbuster "Under Siege." Afterward, Seagal let his waistline bloat to Buddha-like proportions, and he started dressing like Sitting Bull. Worse, he used his movies as a soapbox to preach about environmental issues. Seagal's last outing in the 1998 militia melodrama "The Patriot," where he played a single parent doctor raising a young daughter, never attracted a major studio to distribute it and premiered on cable television. Essentially, Seagal's career appeared washed-up, and then "Lethal Weapon"/"The Matrix" producer Joel Silver offered him a deal he couldn't refuse. If Seagal cut the ponytail, dressed inconspicuously, and shed weight, Silver promised to produce his comeback film. Happily, not only as Seagal lost the ponytail and slimmed down considerably, but he also ridicules his weight and ego problems throughout "Exit Wounds." John Westermann's novel about police corruption serves as the basis for the entertaining but formulaic Ed ("On Deadly Ground") Horowitz and Rich ("Thirteen Ghosts") D'Ovidio screenplay. Horowitz & D'Ovidio recycle plot elements from Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry," Sidney Lumet's "Serpico," John Sturges' "McQ," John Glen's "License to Kill," Richard Donner's "Lethal Weapon 3," and Brett Ratner's "Money Talks." Although Seagal has modified his image cosmetically, he portrays the same soft-spoke, anti-authoritarian, Neanderthal "Dirty Harry" type who willingly breaks the law to uphold it. "Exit Wounds" recalls Andrew Davis' "Above the Law" (1988), John Flynn's "Out for Justice" (1991), and John Gray's "The Glimmer Man" (1996) with Seagal cast as an insubordinate cop.The action opens with a bang. The Vice President (Christopher Lawford of "Thirteen Days") delivers an anti-gun control speech, and maverick Detroit cop Orin Boyd (Steven Seagal) save his life when a right-wing militia group ambushes the Vice President's motorcade on a bridge with enough firepower to ignite World War III. Predictably, the grossly incompetent Secret Service complains about Orin's unsolicited intervention, and his bureaucratic superiors punish him for his heroism. They transfer him to the most dangerous, crime-riddle precinct in the Motor City where his boss is a woman. Precinct Captain Annette Mulcahy (Jill Hennessy of "Most Wanted") orders Orin to attend a "Fight Club" style anger management class where he encounters a loquacious Jerry Springer-type TV talk show host, Henry Wayne (Tom Arnold of "True Lies"). Seagal prostrates himself throughout "Exit Wounds." When he tries to stand up in the anger-management class, he finds it difficult to get out of the desk because his stomach is too big. Later, in an outright reference to "Lethal Weapon 3," Orin walks a beat and has to direct traffic.Eventually, Orin uncovers a ring of crooked cops and a mystery man, Latrell Walker (rapper DMX of "Belly") on the right side of the law for a change), who behaves like a drug dealer. Latrell and his sidekick, well-heeled nightclub owner T.K. (Anthony Anderson of "Me, Myself & Irene"), saunter into a new car dealership with a duffel bag filled with $300-thousands dollars to buy a Lamborghini Diablo off the showroom floor just for fun. Interestingly, an African-American car salesman displays nothing but contempt for Latrell while a shrewd white salesman helps Latrell out and wins the commission. "Exit Wounds" stands racial profiling on its head and tweaks it for comedy by having another African-American use it against one of his own. Everything that Latrell does categorizes him unmistakably as a gangsta. Ironically, Latrell is only trying to spring his wrongly accused brother from jail and expose the dirty cops that who put him there to take the heat off one of their own protected drug dealers. In fact, both Latrell and his brother Shaun are millionaires several times over, so "Exit Wounds" shuns the stereotypical depiction of blacks as despicable drug dealers and presents its young black males as members of the nouveau riche who acquired their wealth legally. We learn Latrell made his fortune as a dot.com creator who knew when to bail before the bubble bursts, while Shaun awaits his 25th birthday to inherit a mega-trust fund fortune.Producer Joel Silver and sophomore helmer Andrzej Bartkowiak replicate the formula that succeeded so well for them in the profitable "Romeo Must Die," but doesn't work as well for Seagal. They give the first half of the movie to Seagal, introduce DMX about 40 minutes later, flesh out the relationships between the heroes and the villains, let Seagal collide with DMX so they can team up and battle the baddies. Unfortunately, the second half of "Exit Wounds" doesn't measure up to the first.Seagal fans will appreciate the testosterone-laced violence and ample frontal female nudity. Silver & Bartkowiak indulge their squinty-eyed star and give him one of his signature scenes where, although outnumbered, he decimates the opposition with disarming ease. Seagal catches a gang of delinquents in the act of trying to break into his new Dodge Ram truck. The aim of grand theft auto, he tells them, is breaking into a vehicle quickly, and then he unlocks his truck with his remote control to their surprise. While Seagal acts like an indestructible action hero when he guns down dozens of villains and kicks another dozen butts, "Exit Wounds" varies by thrusting him into hair-raising scenes where his life appears in jeopardy. Things really shift into overdrive when the bad guys heist 50 kilos of heroin from the precinct's property vaults. Just as predictably, Latrell joins forces with Orin to bring these dastards down! Although "Exit Wounds" doesn't top "Under Siege," it shows a freshly resilient Steven Seagal in better form than his last two films Félix Enríquez Alcalá "Fire Down Below" and "The Patriot."
One of the best Seagal movies!
posted on 09 Nov 2008Now I purchased Exit Wounds last week for only $4, and while I have heard from what films Seagal made in 2003-2007 were not that good, I knew something unique was going to be in this movie if I was going to watch it, and something unique was really there.Orin Boyd (Steven Seagal) is a stressed-out cop who has been moved to a ghetto precinct due to a ballsy ego to save a vice president, but as he progresses to crack a drug case and meanwhile trying to get along with his new boss, Lt.Annette Mulcahy (Jill Hennessy) he realizes that some kind of corruption is taking place within the department. For Orin, trying to crack a drug case and getting along with his fellow officers is close to impossible, but when he is signed to work with a reserved partner George Clark (Isaiah Washington), who also realizes that something deep is taking place, their teamwork is what counts. As Orin gets a lead on a Latrell Walker (DMX), and his quirky, comical criminal friend T.K. Johnson (Anthony Anderson).. a game of cat and mouse occurs within the streets of L.A. and a war is taking place. With more evidence coming up from the lead drug dealer Latrell, it becomes apparent that much of the operation is taking place by the cops in Orin's own precinct, and now it's up to Orin to stop the inside dirty work of his own department and restore peace in the city of L.A..Supported cast stars: Michael Jai White, Bruce McGill, Bill Duke, and Tom Arnold.This movie was really good.. I recommend this to anyone who is a Seagal fan. Awesome cast, awesome story and really just very awesome action scenes, I mean Seagal plays in a form I have never seen and it convinces me strongly, so concluding this review, I say.. go buy or rent it, which ever you prefer.. it's a darn good action flick, its not a intelligent action flick, but it's one that Seagal really shows his redemption as a action star.By the way, the anger class scenes with Seagal are funny!
I think it's awesome!
posted on 12 Oct 2008Okay, I am a Steven Seagal fan but it was surprisingly good regardless. I will definitely add it to my collection. The story has some humor and as usual a lot of fighting. Seagal even lets DMX get the better of him. Plus they really didn't try to tie him up with a female "love interest".
He is back!!
posted on 19 Aug 2008Seagal is back in this action packed movie. I am a big Seagal fan, I've seen all his movies and appreciate his ability to act and deliver the goods that his fans expect. I have no clue why this movie is under rated because its a different style which we haven't seen as yet of Seagal. The movie contains basically everything in it, its got the humor, the action, the drama and suspense. The fights are too much computer aided, thats what really sucked but anyway... the movie is worth the money!
Not entirely unexpected
posted on 09 Aug 2008Don't you hate it when the hero and his mate have the bad guys held up and then the hero's mate swings his gun round and points it at the hero, and it turns out he's one of the bad guys after all? Most recently seen in high profile in SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER Indiana Jones 4? Well guess what? Spielberg didn't think of it. And neither did the people behind Exit Wounds - it was already old hat when they came up with the idea of trotting it out towards the end of this rather routine Seagal vehicle.Seagal is a problem cop, transferred to a problem precinct where the main activity is playing "Guess who's not corrupt". We have a black crime boss who has a monumentally irritating comedy fat black sidekick, plus Tom Arnold in screaming over-the-top mode (is he ever in any other mode?).You may come to the conclusion at this point that I found this movie rather tiresome. If Seagal butt-kicking action is your thing - and it's OK, that's why I watched the movie - there's some of that in it, but this film severely lacked anything approaching originality - it was simply tired old formula from start to finish. And not even a good example of the formula, either.
Refreshing change
posted on 05 Aug 2008It is a refreshing change to see Steven Seagal playing something beside the invincible hero he normally plays. His character is very human and completely believable. While the flim was a little slow at the beginning, it picked up nicely and had a few surprises that kept my interest until the end. The action sequences were excellent, and I would like to see more films like this one. My only complaint is Tom Arnold's character; the scene at the end should've been cut as I found it offensive and unnecessary. BMX is great, and I would like to see him in more films.
Typical Seagal action flick
posted on 24 Jul 2008Aah, Steven Seagal, what would action scene be like if you wouldn't be here? Maybe more bearded ala Chuck Norris? There are bad action stars and bad action stars, good ones, like The Governator, are rare, so I'd guess Seagal is somewhere between good and bad: He can't act, but he's not as bad actor as Chuck Norris, he just delivers his lines with that stoned expression on his face and then he beats the crap out from the bad guys. And besides I usually enjoy Seagal's movies no matter how dumb they are.Exit Wounds definitely is not the most terrible piece of crap ever made, it even has some funny one liners and pretty good action scenes in it. The plot in the other hand, well it just there to give Seagal good enough reasons to kick people.The plot uses every cliché ever invented: bad cops, drug traffic, good, but not by the book hero, good family man cop, "unexpected" leaders of the bad guys gang etc. etc. I gather you can guess the rest.So yes, a decent action flick. Don't watch if you expect to get some nourishment for your brains, only good if you need to let your brains breathe for a while.
Well-filmed but utterly stupid action film.
posted on 24 Aug 2009Just when you think that action movies can't get any dumber, they hit you with one like this. Amazingly stupid plot has super-cool cop/agent/whateverthehell Segall getting DEMOTED after he saves the life of the VICE-PRESIDENT because of some silly technicality. That alone is enough stupidity for a whole movie. But it just roles on: he uncovers the fact that just about every cop he knew or got to know recently is corrupt and involved in a huge drug-profiteering conspiracy. And to make things even sillier, it turns out that the actual dealers are in fact almost like a secret organization that want to expose the cops?! It doesn't get any dumber - it just doesn't. Well, maybe in a De Palma thriller.Plus, we've got Segall's new superior who is no less than A FASHION MODEL cast as A HIGH-RANKING POLICE CHIEF! Hilarious stuff. Or how about that black dealer/good-guy who is not only a martial-arts experts to match Segall but also a computer genius! (How many computer experts/kung-fu-meisters do you know?) This could become a camp classic. Good action scenes, though.