Exit Wounds
**1/2
Cinema
Releases - April 27, 2001
Rated on a 4-star scale. Certificate 18. 103
minutes. Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Written by Richard D'Ovidio, Ed
Horowitz; from a novel by John Westermann. Starring Steven Seagal, DMX, Anthony
Anderson, Isiah Washington, Tom Arnold.
There is a scene in "Exit Wounds" in
which Steven Seagal is casually driving down a road, stops because he suspects
someone is breaking into a car, then glances round and notices there's a
gunfight going on in the building behind him.
The whole movie is like that. Everywhere Seagal
goes, he seems to stumble upon random demonstrations of extreme violence
and wholeheartedly jump into them. Bullets and karate kicks fly as Seagal
tackles an average of twenty guys at a time. Five minutes into the film there
is a massive car pile-up, followed by a shootout involving crooks, cops,
crooked cops, a mayor and even the Vice President. You get the
idea.
The plot takes a while to come into formation;
it's some junk about a guy pretending to be a criminal to entrap the corrupt
policemen who wrongly locked up his brother. Seagal plays a good cop who
eventually ends up aiding the independent soldier, and along the way, of
course, we get the obligatory gun and badge scene and "This ain't your
jurisdiction!" moment, because he's a bit of a renegade, doncha
know.
"Exit Wounds" isn't exactly good, because it's
so silly and the story takes such a long time to get going. It is, however,
a lot better than some of the stone-faced crap Seagal has made in the last
few years, with pretty lively action, and some surprisingly worthy comedy
on show from Anthony Anderson, the fat guy from "Me, Myself & Irene"
and "Romeo Must Die". I dare you to look at the last scene and not break
into fits of laughter. Seriously.
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